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Editor's Opinion Monday, Nov. 11, 1074 Mitchell Daily Republic Mail Novpmher 12, 1974 Welcome Trend Hurbn batty A U.S. SUP study of population shifts since thft census indicates that South Dakota has at last reversed the p6pulati6n trend from a declining number a gradual increase. Of the lA s'Mes which ranked at the bottom in growth change during the seven including South Dakota. Wes: Virginia, North Dakota.

Wy6m.ing, Mississippi. Maine and Montana have climbed to a higher category. South Dak6ta is credited with a 2.4 per cent gain in the peri6d 1970 t6 a mindr fain but a distinct change ffbrn the previbus decade. Those which dropped into the torn of low growth states include fthbde Island, New York. Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio.

Connecticut and Massachusetts and Washington which tied. During the four-year period cover- ed by the study, the national growth came to juM per cent. The trend tbward the West was fairly obvious. All states immediately adjacent to South Dak6ta shbwed gains ranging fr6m Iowa at 1.1 and Minnesota at 2.9 pef cent 6n the fcast to Mont-anl with and Wyoming up £.1 per dent 6n the west. Arizbna, Coiofadb, Florida and Nevada were the big gainers, with percentages running fr6m 13 to fcl.5 per cent.

Oregon, which has been trying to discburage grbwth, gained $.4 per cent over California where rapid growth re- c6rd slowed t6 4.8. The pattern indicates a shift frorn some Of the more populous areas tow- afd 16wer density states and regions a pattern that could be beneficial to our state if it is properly exploited. At least the present trend is a welcome change from that of recent years. Phiilips-Singlinger Survey- Price Deflation Is inning By KEVIN P. PHILLIPS AND ALBERT E.

SI1VDL1NGER With U.S. inflation woes shifting to depression fears, consumers are reporting declining prices in many items and commodities, and the beginnings of deflati6n may be at nand. These, and other profiles of price behavior emerged In a nationwide Phillips-Sindlinger telephone poll of 1,679 persons taken between Oct; 19-28. Here are the principal findings: per cent of consumers report some declining prices; and meat products lead the list of" reported price declines. have back price of meat.

27 per cent noted that egg prices were going down, 25 per cent cited vegetables and lesser numbers focused on other food products. To get an idea of additional areas of developing price weakriess, we askfed bur sample this question: "Thinking back, are there any major items that you or arty Other members Of your household had -planned td buy which ybu did not buy or postponed buying because bf rising prices?" Thirty-nine per cent said there were, artd 60 per cent said they had not deferred any purchases. Among those who had post- pbned buying items, these were the most frequently mentioned: new cars (36 per Cent), hbusehbld furniture, furnishings purchases of cars, furniture and- and carpeting (35 per cent), Those ITT Are At It By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON We have gotten bur- selves into another brouhaha with International Telephone and Telegraph. This has caused the Stats Department to seek a criminal investigation bf the conglomerate. On October 2, we reported that ITT had placed a bugging expert inside the late President Salvador Allende's palace in Chile.

Our story was based on ITT evidence, which escaped the shredder and was slipped to my associate Les Whitten on a downtown Washington street corner. Whitten double-checked the facts in the documents and then called ITT for comment. Without waiting for the story to appear, ITT's press chief Robert Sykes wired denials to many of our client papers. Let's try to sort out the facts. In 1971, ITT plotted with the Central Intelligence Agency to keep Allende out of office.

When this failed, the conglomerate tried to bring about Chile's economic collapse, hoping it would trigger a military coup. We reported that ITT had conspired with Chilean militarists. Sykes objected that the CIA, not ITT had done the plotting. This was followed by a shamefaced second wire from Sykes, retracting the charge- against the CIA and laying the blame instead upon "unidentified persons." ITT was in the midst of its skulduggery against Allende in 1971 when it quietly dispatched John Ragan, a master bugging technician, to Chile with a load of electronic gear. ITT has now come up with the astonishing explanation that Ragan was Supposed to help Allende de-bug his palace and two residences.

This would have been an odd mission, to say the least, for ITT to undertake while it was trying to foment a military uprising against Allende. Some might even suspect that ITT had hired the electronic expert to plant bugs rather than remove them. As for us, we reported only what we could prove. We wrote that Ragan had gained access to the presidential premises, whether to bug or to de-bug we did not say. Sykes, meanwhile, claimed that Ragan had been sent to Chile to ITT "at Dr.

AUende's request." Fien, we said. Show us a copy of the request with Allende's signature. ITT backed down again. It was not really Allende, said the company, but an unidentified aide who had requested the bugging expert. We got into another hassje with ITT by insisting upon a certified signature.

"Ridiculous," protested the company. Bugs Again Distributed by JGos Singles "STints SYNDICATE To Your Good Health- Foot Drop And major appliances because bf prices, and downward price pressure is developing areas. 6 are putting heavy emphasis upon bargain shopping and increasing their reliance upon newspapers for product and price information. To probe price sbftening, we asked our sample the following question: "For the things ybu are now buying, are overall pric- coming down, 'are overall major dura ble like refrigerators, (22 per cent), small appliances (22 per cent), meat, beef, food products (18 per cent), home improvements (17 per cent) and vacation (17 per cent), television sets (15 per cent), and new home (14 per cent). Different Emphasis Men and women emphasized different items.

Of men, 41 per cent cited postponed plans to buy a new car, and 25 per cent Ridiculous? A few days later, The New Ybrk Times accused ITT of chemically altering vital documents in a $12 million suit, a charge that the conglomerate was Obliged to admit. In flying the bugging equipment tb Chile, we have nbw learned, ITT failed tb get a State Department license. Bugging equipment suitable for military use requires a license, subject to a fine' bf $25,000 and two years in jail. In its own letters, ITT has conceded that "offensive bugs" in other words devices used for bugging rather than de-bugging were "taken tb Chile by Ragart." In Chile, according to these documents. "Ragan worked with the army and police." Ragan has also acknowledged that bugging equipment was left in Chile fbr army and pblice use.

Clearly, therefore, the bugs were suitable for military use. After we pointed this out, the State Department asked for a criminal investigation of ITT. By leaving New York with the equipment, ITT may have violated another criminal law, even though certain xemptions are allowed for "common carriers" like ITT. If the bugs were not used by ITT in the "normal course of business," ITT officials could be sjubjct to another $10,000 fine and five years in jail. In its hurry tb deny everything, ITT also denied making "approaches of any kind whatsoever to the Chilean military at any time." This conflicts with an ITT admission that its master bugging consultant Ragan was in contact with the Chilean military.

Indeed, Ragan's own secret notes on his meetings in Chile gave the coded names of military officers he met. Another confidential document describes how Ragan, while on a contractual basis with the Republican National Committee, telephone call from an ex-FBI associate, Russ Tagliareni. Tagliareni happens to be ITT's assistant security director. Together, Tagliareni and Ragan fliew to Chile, according to the document, as part of Ragan's 11-day mission. Ragan "received $200 a day for his duties," and at one point actually met Allende, adds the document.

These are some of the facts that ITT has neglected to mention in the denials it has been firing around the country. In the past, ITT has dissembled about the famous Dita Beard memo, shredded documents to destroy evidence and misled the Congress in testimony. Before the evidence disappears on the Chile, mission, we suggest it should be subpoenaed. Next, 33 per cent said they had put off buying a new car, and 30 per cent admitted to not buying major durables (refrigerator, washer, etc) as earlier planned. Demand is slipping in all of these categories.and Christmas ihould see a lot of price wars.

When we asked how people were coping with the way that food prices had Increased in the last year, S3 per cent said they were eating less meat in general and beef in particular, and 30 per cent said they were bargain-shbpping. This latter pattern which cart be expected to intensify during the winter has had a considerable impact upon the use of U.S. media. To get at this, our Interviewers asked: "When ybu are lobking for the best buys for groceries, meat or fbod produce, which Of the four media do you rely upon or refer to the rnbst for food-buying?" The answers were as newspapers, 82 per cent; radio, 9 per cent; television, 4 per cent; magazines, 1 per cent. Artd when people were asked which media were least important, 35 per cent said magazines, 34 per cent said television, 24 per cent said radio w.

UM WK VAOAUJl. VCJJb OCI prices the same, or are admitted putting bff purchase and only per cent said prices conunuing-to go up? of a new house. Among women, news'papers. In comparison with those questioned, 93 Mr cen.tr hbusehbld furniture, furnishings past years, this represents a said prices were still going up, and carpeting' were the most- deemphasis on television and mentioned category (48 per magazines in favor of cent) of postpbned puchases. newspapers.

The Republican Party Is Endangered Specie By KEVIN P. PHILLIPS WASHINGTON Question: Why are Whigs and Federalists like passenger pigeons, sea minks and eastern wapiti? Answer: They're all extinct. Question: Why are Republicans like manatees whooping cranes and red wolves? Answer: They're all endangered species. Joking aside, that seems to be the truth of it. The verdict is in on Richard Nixon, Watergate, Gerald Ford and Administration economic policy, and the verdict it un- m.stakably negative.

As a result, the Republican Party is now so weak in Congress and the 50 states that it may not survive. Poll after poll shows "conservatism" gaining strength (actually reaching new highs) while the nairte "Republican" loses favor, so the temptation will be great for conservatives to think about a new party. Let me make a few points to underscore Republican weakness and potential collapsability: First, the massive 1974 GOP losses in the House of Representatives throw the party bad? to devastated 1964 levels. What is more, these heavy defeats occurred despite the post-1966 trend for incumbents to solidify themselves (party House turnover in the 1968, 1970 and 1972 elections stayed in the low dozen-seat range). Not Since 1936 Second, the Republicans have Ibst control of almost all the big state governorships and state legislatures.

Their position is worse than at any time since 1936. This unprecedented weakness may have important consequences, because lack of big state governors, patronage and party machinery will make it a lot easier for the Republican Party to come apart at the seams. Very little state and local fabric still binds it together. Third, there is a geographic collap-e- pattern in Republican voting. No new gains were won in the South (indeed, there was some ebb), while old fiefdoms were collapsing in the Yankee North.

In the other (jOp disaster 1936 and 1W4, the first the Yankee base hold up, an.d the second witnessed important Deep South Strides. TJ)is year, there was nationwide stagnation disintegration. Republican gtragth and organization is crumbling to dust in old CjviJ War bailiwicks like Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Couple this with dissipating Dixie support, and it could be fatal, especially after the great opportunity of 1972. Once spurned, history doesn't come around again.

Fourth, there are other indices of Republican trouble. Even after the Roosevelt landslide Of 1936, Gallup polls (1937-38) found the Democrats only a few points ahead of the GOP in voter self- identification (38-36 per cent). Now Republican identification is at an alltime low (24 per cent) and slipping. Only 10-15 per cent of young people are registering Republican. A Chance in 1976? I realize that contrary arguments can be made.

Party loyalists will say that the 1974 losses were typical for offyears. They will say that this was a "Watergate Oneshot" election reflecting voter sentiments that will not punish future GOP candidates. And they will say that the GOP still has a chance in 1976. Even so, after all is said and done, I think that the great danger to Grand Old Party survival is the way that statistics must be measured against ideological opportunity. This is not 1936; nor is it 1984, when polls fbund liberals outnumbering conservatives.

As of 1974, "conservatism" leads in the natibnal polls, and its political ineffectiveness lies in the institutional weakness and taint bf the Republican Party. Watergate and its are just one factor. White House economic pblicy is another. So is likely Ford Administrate 1975-76 incapacity to articulate important Issues. So is the pathetic weakness of the Republican National Committee and many lUW organizations (save for the shining light of Ohib).

In many ways, the Grand Old Party is sort bf like the famous "one- that came apart all at once. Are Conservatives likely to continue bitching their hbrse this brokendown wagbn? That js the ultimate question. With the prbpsect bf- vbters blaming the Dembcratic Congress for economic cbn- ditibns in 1976, and with the prbbability that George Wallace will lead Populist revolt, a' new conservative vehicle may run a winning race. Draftsmen, carpenters and wheelwrights should, begin pondering the By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D.

Dear Dr. Thosteson: My a year and a half agO, started to have a problem with her left fbot. It seemed tb have a slight "drbp" as she walked. She fell and broke her wrist. It has healed up but since then her leg started to get weaker although she felt gOod, no pain at all.

After a check she was tbld she had a muscle problem, but not multiple sclerbsis. Another dbctbr said he thought it was caused from her Spine. Our own doctor called it a "foot drop" which car 'e caused by many things. Tests showed she did not have a stroke, but nbw when she stands for just a few moments, she gets awfully weak. Are there any other ideas on this problem, any medicine or shots that might help? T.R.G.

As you now know, there ase various causes of "fbot drop," and you have eliminated some of the more frightening ones. The only additional One that occurs to me is a disorder called Charcot-Marie Tooth disease. It involves the peroneal nerve which controls the peroneal muscle. As the nerve no longer actuates the muscle, the muscle, unused, loses its strength. It begins slowly, and progresses, as in your wife's case.

It occurs in families and is hereditary. Unfortunately there is little that can be done for it; on other side of the ledger, one authoritative reference text adds, "This disorder is the least incapacitating of the muscular atrophies and dystrophies Patients remain active for years and may live an average life span." Although there is no known medication or treatment, massage and exercises may help the functioning of the foot, but she probably will need a brace to stabilize her ankle. There may be numbness, tingling, or abnormal sensations such as prickling. Tere is one other possibility which is remote but may be Of interest to some other reader. Poisoning from heavy (including arsenic) can cause foot drop.

However, it is rare outside of industry and so far as I know, is disappearing in industry as the dangor of such heavy metals is known. Dear Dr. Thosteson: I am a woman past 75 and for the last 10 years have suffered with varicose veins and phlebitis. For the last four years I have also had neuritis. My problem is this: one doctor tells me that to have these veins operated on (removed) while I still have neuritis, I would get disastrous results.

Another doctor tells me this is not so, and I would not get any bad results from having neuritis. I am puzzled as to which is right. Mrs. L.F.D. All I can do is give you my opinion I concur with the second doctor.

In fact, removal of the veins could eliminate or decrease the discomfort attributed to the neuritis. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Is it harmful to sleep under an electric blanket or sleep with a heating pad all night? E.P.J. I continue to warn against leaving a heating pad On nistht, particularly for older fbfks whose circulation isn't too good. Unlike a hot water bottle, a heating pad doesn't gradually cool off.

It maintains temperature. And the fact is that a temperature that does lot burn with short exposure can burn the skin on continued exposure. The average person dbes n.6t realize how relatively low a temperature Can burn. However, I. have no objection tb electric blankets otherwise.

Low blood sugar is bften the cause of faintness, headaches, visual and emoti-onal disturbances. To earn how it can be identified and brought under control, write to Dr. Thosteson in care of THE DAILY REPUBLIC, Box 140 Elgin, III, 60120, for a copy of ''Help for Hypoglycemia," enclosing a long, self-addressed, 6 per cent said they were the same, and only 1 per cent said they were going down. Then we moved from the general to the specific, asking, "Have you observed anything where prices are definitely coming down?" Seventy-two per cent said no, but 25 per cent noted at least one area where prices were dropping. Only 3 per cent had no Opinion or didn't know.

Gasoline Tops List Ambng those who reported declining prices, 30 per cent mentioned gasoline. Meat came next, cited by 26 per cent. Twenty-four per cent said that interest rates were coming down, 17 per cent mentioned sea food prices, 15 per cent cited clothing costs, 14 cent mentioned bread prices and 14 per cent thought vegetable prices wert easing. Further down the list came the cos.t of eggs' (13 per cent), milk (13 per cent), poultry (12 per cent), fruit (11 per cent), food in general (11 per cent), toys and recreation (10 per cent), copper, lead, raw materials (10 per cent), lumber (9 per cent), cattle and pigs (8 perx cent), butter (7 per cent) and so forth. A few people were beginning to report price slippage in automobiles (2 per cent), and 3 per cent thought that auto- parts prices were coming down.

Naturally enough, there were major differences between men and women. Among men, 39 per cent mentioned gasoline and 34 per cent cited interest rates. Meanwhile, 30 per cent of the Majority Of Spectators Are The Blue-Jean Set stamped envelope and 25 cents, women mentioned the reduced Your Money's Worth- Slumpflation Is Its Name "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor thrust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gjveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate." 1 Timothy 6: 17, 18 Some people use their riches, while others let their riches use them. Only what you give out and send up ahead will you really Save and only as you accept Christ can, you really possess true wealth. THE DAILY REPUBLIC An Independent Newspaper H.

Putjenter, Publisher Geueral Manager Keith Anderson Managing Editor Robt. Powell Advertising ulr. Don ritzier Circulation 'dgr. Published by THE MITCHELL, DAILY REPUBLIC at 120 S. Lawler Mitchell, South Dakota 57301, days a week every except Sunday and Holidays.

Member ot the The Associated Press ts entitled exclusively to use for republieatlon all the local news printed newspaper, as well as all AP news, under the Act of March 2, 1879 Subscriber to United Press International's up-to-the-rnlnute worldwide Telephone picture --overaKr Entered as second class matter paid at the Postoffice, Mitchell, South Dakota 57301. By SYLVIA PORTER Slumpflation is the name of the nightmare "game" we're enduring as 1974 ends a wretched combirtatibn of deepening business decline side by side with relentlessly galloping inflation. Ybu don't need any outside expert tb tell you that ybur cost of living is still soaring at an intolerably rapid rate. To document it, though, 'the rise in the consumer price index at latest reporting date was at a murderous annual rate of 14 per cent, and in' September the price level was 12 per cent above a year earlier, the biggest year-to-year jump since 1947. Electricity rates of the nation's 50 largest utilities rose an average of 55.4 per cent in the first half of '74 alone.

It now costs $1.51 tb buy the market- baskets of goods and services that one dollar bbught as recently as 1987. At current rates of increase, the price level in the U.S. would double in merely five to six years making any sort of sound planning an impossibility. Despite any pay hikes, your real earnings your pay after deductions for Social Security taxes and federal income taxes and adjusted for inflation is down 5 per cent from a year ago. The longer the squeeze lasts, the harder it is to take.

As a result, you are buying fewer luxuries, concentrating more and more on essentials; trading many of your purchases; trying tb cut your Own budget as much as you can. And now the business retreat has gone far beyond a "sideways waffling," "spasm," "stagnation" or other terms the politicans prefer to use. "feel" as well as the fact of recession are now all around us. This is much worse than the slowdown that began in 1973 as an inevitable backing away from the unsustainable bbom artificially created in 1972 to help insure the reelection of Nixon, It's only a matter of weeks before the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research finally officially tags it "recession." duration, this business decline seems destined to be the longest of the entire post-World War II generation. Assuming its beginning is dated in Nbverriber 1973, the recession is now 12 months old, already longer than the post-war average of 11 months, if a real recbvery doesn't start until mid-1975 as expected by many authorities the recession will have lasted twice as long as mbst of the setbacks of the 1950s and 1960s.

depth, this decline also Is likely to be among the mbst severe of the past 28 years. Unemployment has risen from a low of 4.2 per cent last autumn to more than 6 per cent right now (the latest published figure did not include many layoffs) and the rate is clearly heading toward 7 per cent and mbre. The number of unemployed has hit 5,500,000, the highest total since the Labor Department began computing these figures in 1948. The previous recessibn high fbr joblessness in the post-Wbrld War II period was 7.5 per cent. The government's kc.y barometer of leading business indicators yardsticks chosen out of thousands by the NBER that usually telegraph in advance that a business decline is on the way plunged 2.5 per cent in September, latest reporting date the sharpest break for any month in more than 23 years.

the surface, profits seem to be the best ever, with the spectacular exceptions of autos and housing. But the gains are mostly phony, reflecting windfalls on inventories earlier at much lower profits. With inventory profits eliminated, before-tax earnings generally are not up, but ac tually down! a 45-month boom, machine tool orders are slip ping, anfl while business continues tb spend huge ambunts for, new plants ancj equipment, these outlays are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cutbacks. industries are outright disasters housing, autos, new appliances (and Wall Street). And the business decline is having its usual multiplier effect as it soreads out and feeds on itself.

A slump in one industry hurts hundreds of thousands of other industries millibns bf other workers. For instance, a house that isn't built doesn't use lumber br glass or need bathtubs or appliances or furniture, drapes, etc. Our tbtal output of goods and services is again likely to show a decline at the end of this quarter four quarters in a row and qualifying for a "recession" label by any acceptable definition. And never forget, this decline was born in our runaway inflation. But why the runaway inflation? See tomorrow's column, By FREDERICK L.

BERKS Republic Washington Bureau WASHINGTON "Got your programs?" John Ehrlichman asks with a smile as he approaches. They look up, startled, but don't answer. They don't like John Ehrlichman. John Mitchell, chatting with an attorney, strolls by. There are whispers and grumbles.

They don't like John Mitchell, either. "I don't suppose we cbuld ever serve on the jury," Ron Yaffe, 27, remarks as he watches the passing parade of Watergate defendants. "We're sghtly biased." Yaffe, a public welfare worker for the State of Maryland, is one bf 50 persons lined up outside Courtroom Two at the U.S. Courthouse. In an hour, Judge John Sirica will rap his gavel, and another session of the historic Watergate coverup trial will begin.

A total of 30 seats are set aside daily in the courtroom fbr the spectators. Often as- many as .100 persons have waited in line for nours to watch the trial. Many of them, according to guards, are liw students and professors who come from as far away as England tb observe the judicial proceedings. Meanwhile, about 45 newspaper, radio and television correspondents sit in the courtroom each day to cover the trial. The majority of the spectators are members of the blue jean set mbstly young, mostly -dressed in jeans and tee shirts, mostly liberal and, after their long wait, mostly tired.

It had been an uncomfortable Engineers Are Needed DULUTH, Minn. (AP) The University of Minnesota can help staye off a potential "minerals crisis" by training more mining engineers, representatives of the State's mining industry said Friday. "We've got a hell of a crisis coming in the minerals and we've got to have the engineers night for at least two of them. Joe Gozzo, 23, and Bob Flodter, 21, had slept in a city alley after hitchhiking and riding buses from Los Angeles. They have come, Gozzo explains, because they are angry.

"I watched the trial of the 'Chicago Seven' on TV a year after the 1968 Democratic Convention," he recalls. "Mitchell was attorney general then. I was bitter." But not everybody in this crowded corrider feels angry. Take Steve Kurdziel, for instance; Georgetown University student, Canton, Ohio native, 21, in line today since 4 a.m., glad just to be here. "I'm kind of an events groupie," he says.

"I saw Nixon inaugural and the Johnson funeral. Those were staged pageants. This welj, it's not entertainment." What it is, according to Kurdziel, is anti-climactic because of: Richard Nixon's resignation. "This is just to see if these- guys get one or five years," he remarks. "Maybe they should waif until Nixon recovers, or move the trial to California.

Five high school girls, playiae cards on the floor nearby, would prefer that they wouldn't. "It's an exciting thing fbr us" says Margo Berch, 16, bf Bethesda, Md. "We're Watching history affect us." She and her friends bejjeve that high school students still are interested in Watergate, still follow news accounts of a trial that is expected to continue for several more weeks. The girls, off on a school holiday, have brought with them, many of the comforts of home. Included among them are cbbkies, peanut butter sandwiches, granbla, fruit, cereal, milk, sweet rolls, carrots, mushrbom sbup and candy.

There are others here who take the event mbre seriously. To one man, attending the trial is an obligation and responsibility. Gene Richards, 42, stands in a faded green suit, waiting to see the trial he has seen every day since it began OCt. 1. He left his job as a day maker in Scio, Ohio tb come here, and, he insists, there is no place he would rather be.

The trial is an historic event to deal with it," said James B. that he wants "to keep close Hustad, manager of mineral to." development for Hallett Minerals Co. in. His is an attitude of "let justice take its course." Unlike many of the others, he not express the fear that the defendants will "get off" without a proper jail sentence. At last, the courtroom door swings open and the line inches forward.

Near the entrance, federal marshalls have gathered. The spectators are instructed He was. one of several dustry representatives who met in Duluth with university President C. Peter Magrath -and some members of the Board of Regents. The group asked for establishment of a three-year mineral engineering program at Minnesota-Duluth and that the university increase its budget for earch Cemer ReSource Ke detector, even "the i or shoe bucUe a Clyde D.

Keith, general man- "negative reaction" from the ager of Eric Mining Hbyt device. Lakes, said development Outside, at the of Minnesbta's low-grade nbn- entrance, CBS sbund technician magnetic tacbrtite ore, martg- Karen Danaher huddles against anese, peat, copper-nickel and the building to avoid the early aluminum-bearing anthrosite was important in preventing a minerals crisis. "With the university taking the lead," he said, "we be assured that further development of Minnesota's iron deposits and of our cooper-nickel morning ram. She is one of 60 broadcast technicians stationed at the Courthouse entrances each day to film and record the defendants as they enter the building. "We film them coming in and out," she explains.

"We deposits will be developed in a tb refresh people's memories OB manner cbmnatible with Min- what these guys look like. environmental objec nesota's tives. The changes from their dayt in the Nixon Administration are nbt iust physical cues, like H-R. needs a 'year and Minnesota cannot hold its place in that responsibility by graduating 16 per year." Magrath said 9 university committee studying the of the mining fields will report its findings by the end bf this year. "It is a seribus matter and we wiU give it careful thought," Magrath said.

When they were top House aides, Ms. Danaher remembers, Haldemann and Ehrlichman were aloof toward the press. Now, as they try to improve their public image, they're "all smiles," she says. Upstairs in the Cbujrtrbom, the tired spectators too. The long wait is Over, and the Courtroom are tbeir'i..