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a MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1970 13 inquirer Making of the Senators 1970 Power of TV to Get Votes Is Pointed Up By Victories of Three Political 6 Unknowns' BACKGROUND AND OPINION In the meantime, he and virtually every other political pro in the nation are lying awake nights trying to think of more and better ways to raise campaign cash, as -visions of the Ottinger, Metzenbaum and Bentsen victories float through their heads. For two reasons, this increasing effectiveness i -tresses many Americans, including politicians. It gives a tremendous ad-vantage to the wealthy or lavishly financed regardless of his qualifications for office. It suggests that an inef-" fectual candidate, employing his own slickly prepared films and spots on television, can fool the voters into believing he is something he is not. Washington, where new Party Chairman Lawrence F.

O'Brien is confronted a staggering $9 million debt left over from the 1960 Presidential campaign. O'Brien has direly predicted, that the two-party system as Americans have known it could be shattered in the Presidential elections of 1972 if great wealth for purchase of television time becomes the ultimate political weapon. If the richer of the parties can elect its candidates largely by lavish use of paid television, the poorer of the parties will ultimately be destroyed, he argues. The Democratic chairman is aggressively seeking equalizing regulations and legislations to limit the use of paid pohtic al TV. blitz provides the third classic illustration for what many politicians believe is a new chapter in the book of politics.

Ever since the famous Nixon-Kennedy debates of 1960, it has been obvious that television is immensely effective in politics. But only much more recently has the use of paid political commercials been refined to the point that it can outweigh the news-program coverage of campaign appearances and debates of the candidates if a candidate has enough money to spend. The events of this spring strongly suggest that such a day has now arrived. The alarm over the spring political developments is profound at Democratic National Committee Headquarters in thousands more for television air time to present the Guggenheim products widely throughout Ohio. It worked.

The once-unknown Metzenbaum defeated the supposedly glamorous Glenn going away, and has an excellent chance to be elected to the Senate in November. AGAIN in Texas, where veteran U. S. Senator Ralph Yarborough was well-known, and his primary opponent, Lloyd Bentsen, was obscure, lavish use of television commercials reversed the trend. Bentsen won, in an upset which impressed the political pros in both parties across the country.

Coming hard on the heels of those two races, Ottinger's similarly effective television Defense Spending Needs Reshaping By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND WASHINGTON. SUBSTANTIAL cuts in military spending must be made to get money to deal with pressing needs. There's little argument about that. The defense budget will probably be reduced an additional $6 billion next year. That's all right, too.

But there is a ery serious danger that the cutting will be done by a meat-ax By LOYE MILLER JR. Of Our Washington Bureau WASHINGTON. TT7HEN Congressman Rich-VV ard L. Ottinger announced his candidacy for the U. S.

Senate late last February, he was virtually unknown outside his Westchester County congressional district in the New York city suburbs. Now, a scant four months later, Ottinger has proved that he is now remarkably well known throughout New York, the nation's second most populous state. He solidly defeated three other candidates including two originally far better known than he to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate. Ottinger did it with paid television. A wealthy attorney and heir to a plywood fortune, he spent massive amounts of his own money estimates run as high as $2 million on paid political commercials in the nation's most expensive television market.

Ottinger's meteoric rise through this tactic points up a rapidly spreading development which has come to ias-cinate virtually all U. S. politicians, and which deeply troubles many of them. This development is simply that more and more, the shape of American politics seems to be that of a gigantic and enormously expensive television screen. ALREADY in 1970 alone with the year less than instead of a scalpel and that we will end up with a military establishment little related to the post-Vietnam world and poorly designed to serve emerging U.

S. foreign policy. The danger is already coming into view. It results from this rather appalling development: No adequate planning Occupation of Alcatraz Gives Indians A Sense of Achievement and Pride THE DRUMMONDS REP. RICHARD OTTINGER TV pays off half over three unknown candidates in three of the nation's most populous states have employed a television blitz to break through and upset better-known candidates.

The most dramatic example occurred in Ohio, also in a U. S. Senate primary. There, one of the candidates was astronaut hero John Glenn, whose name was virtually a household word. The other, Cleveland businessman Howard Metzen.

baum was anonymous. But Metzcnbaum, a wealthy man, hired Charles Guggenheim, perhaps the foremost political television consultant in the nation, and paid him $87,000 for a series of artfully produced television films and spot announcements. He spent several hundred is being done in the Pent agon to implement the Nixon Doctrine. This means that while the President is reshaping U. S.

foreign policy, the Defense Department is not reshaping its defense posture to carry out that policy. Even at a time of expanding military spending, this would be a hurtful and wasteful mistake. ond one was held on March 15. Jane Fonda, the movie st. had become involved in the movement and was arrested in the first invasion.

The Indians speak well of her but had not planned on her taking part in the invsion. "We welcome support and we welcome the publicity we received because of Jane Fonda," says Whitebear. "But this is an Indian THE second invasion, 52 PAUL HARVEY was planned but the jittery and brought in truckloads of soldiers and set up barbed wire. "So we decided to cook it because this is a nonviolent movement," she says. Lawyer Gary Bass, an Indi- an giving time to the move-ment, explains the complexities of the Indian claim.

"Our group has Indians J' from all tribes but we do not have the backing of all tribes. We are trying to get this. The reason we invaded Fort Law-ton was to get the government to notice us and talk to us. "TjiSSENTIALLY, we are J-i making a moral claim to the land. But our claim is moral.

The Federal Government has said we don't need the land. Who does need it? Getting Lawton will be more difficult than Alcatraz. The land is worth about $30 mil- lion and a lot of people want it." Mayor Wesley Uhlman of Seattle has said the city will not accept an "all or nothing" proposition for use of Fort Lawton. The Indians don't see their proposal as being that intransigent. "We merely want to admin The author, a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, traveled 6000 miles and spent four months compiling this series on Indians.

This is the second of three articles. By WILLIAM GRANGER INDIAN invasions of Alcatraz were not new. A group of Sioux briefly occupied the island on March 8, 1964, but were quickly run off. The second invasion of Alcatraz came Nov. 14, 1969.

During the day, groups of Indians in a holiday mood moved in boats near the island. Earl Livermore tells of having seen a couple of Indian youths jump off a boat and swim to the island. Television cameras recorded the event and, the publicity seemed to be working to get funds for a new Indian center. But that night, the real invasion took place. Fourteen college students from San Francisco State and the University of California at Berkeley hired a boat to take them to the island.

"We told the boat owner it was for religious purposes," laughed Lanada Means, 21, a Bannock and one of the original invaders. The group spent a night on the island, but the next day, the Coast Guard came and took them back to the mainland. The third and last invasion of Alcatraz came a week later, on Nov. 20. This time, about 80 Indians were involved.

Most were students. There were some families, including children. Justice Perverted In Mixed-Up World "Sure we fight. That's good. Indians are individuals and they always will be." LaNada Means, a Bannock were recognized as having been part of the first invasion and so they were charged with trespassing.

Geri Larkin, a Kwakuitl Indian from Vancouver, B. is part of the Lawton movement. She lives in one of the tepees erected near the fort's main gate. She explains: "We want a community and recreational center there for all the people of Seattle under Indian control. We also want an Indian university and ecology center.

"Essentially, the city wants it as a park and wants-to run it and give us a portion of it. That's not acceptable. It is our land. "There's quite a bit of difference between here and Alcatraz because Lawton is so valuable and everyone seems to want it. No one really wants Alcatraz." She smiles.

"That makes it good Indian land." She said a third invasion At a time of contracting military spending now and for some years ahead this can be a dangerous and fateful mistake. It's happening now and three things contribute most to bringing it about: haste, pressure and traditional thinking within the services. The Pentagon is being harried and heckled by many in Congress to cut back the military budget substantially, to cut it now and find out later whether the cuts were the right ones. IT IS being pushed by the President to make a good showing as rapidly as possible so that before the voting this fall Republican candidates can get the political advantage of new priorities on spending. Finally, the tendency of the military is to keep it as it is rather than to re-examine the total defense posture to adapt it to serve the new post-Vietnam policies Mr.

Nixon has laid down. The need to reshape the contracting Defense establishment to carry out the Nixon Doctrine is beginning to be discussed at high-level strategy conferences of the military planners. But there is a wide gulf between planning to do something and getting it done. The premise of the administration is no more Koreas and no more Vietnams. Since that is the premise of the Commander-in-Chief, it must also be the premise of the Pentagon, and reduced post-Vietnam defense spending must be shaped around it.

The announced intention of the President is that the U. S. is going to reduce its role in peace-keeping. Mr. Nixon says that the central thesis of his doctrine is "that the United States will participate in the defense and development of allies and friends, but that America cannot and will not conceive all the plans, design all the programs, execute all the decisions and undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world.

We will help where it makes a real difference and is considered in our interest." THIS certainly suggests that the U. S. will be disposed to help only those allies willing and able to help themselves and that U. S. troops will not be used unless vital American interests are directly at stake.

Only the military planners can well decide how the reduced defense establishment can be shaped to carry out the Nixon Doctrine. But just somewhat less of the same is not the way to do it. The post-Vietnam defense posture needs to be reappraised with a fresh eye to the special needs of the Nixon Doctrine, if the Nixon Doctrine is to be made to work. Defense and new Nixon foreign policy must not be kept in separate compartments. Thus far little has been done to take them out of their separate compartments and match them up.

Right now we are in the never-never land of knowing that it needs to be done but not coming to grips with it. Military spending must be cut but what is left must be reshaped to fit the world of post-Vietnam. On that rooming, four months after Alcatraz, about 100 Indians clambered up the bluffs on the fort, made a council fire, end erected a tepee. TROOPS moved in and arrested 72 of them. Bernie Whitebear, co-ordinator of the movement, says: "Some of us were pushed around by the MPs.

Slammed against the wall, things like that. But I wouldn't say we were beaten up." Whitebear, 32, is a Colville Indian. He speaks softly and well. How did Lawton happen? "By the time it was known that the fort was to become surplus, Alcatraz had happened," he says. "But we had thought of a take-over as early as the winter of 1969." The Indian center in Seattle was seeking funds for a new building during 1969 but "we met a concrete wall in trying to get help from the city or county," he says.

There are about 12,000 Indians of all tribes in the Seattle area. Their discontent grew. After the first invasion, a sec- ister the land," says White- bear. "Yet we find a public park compatible with it. Open to all." The residents of the Magno- lia district next to the fort present a third view.

This white, upper-middle-class community doesn't want a park "for all' and It doesn't want the Indians. Whitebear and others are going around the country now, trying to raise money and sympathy for the Law- ton cause. The going is tough. One Indian said bitterly: "Whites thought Alcatraz was kind of interesting but they think Fort Lawton is going too far. They just aren't interested in our claim." Meanwhile, Sidney Welch stands guard in the Seattle rain.

He thinks he will he there a long time. "An Indian has patience," he said, and smiled. TUESDAY: Signs of change. CHICAGO. YOU are on a spaceship.

You had intended to leave the hazardous early exploration of space to others less timid, more skilled. Sorry about that. This minute you are on an orbiting satellite, spinning in space. Watch over there to the east, the sun appears to rise. The sun is not rising.

You, on your spaceship, are rotating forward toward the sun. At twilight, the sun will appear to be descending into the western horizon. That's you, on your spaceship, rolling away from the sun and orbiting around it. You are on a spaceship and your spaceship is in trouble. An oxygen tank short-circuits.

Your residual life-support systems are limited. Recirculating water is becoming toxic. And there is mutiny among the crew. What went wrong? How did we get off course? Check the computers, backtrack, trace the trouble. Seven years ago a civil court overruled the Builder of your spaceship, required modifications; those modifications constituted sabotage.

A rumor spread, gaining credulity with repetition, that God had died. That meant our inertial guidance system no longer could be trusted. In our frantic effort to improvise another, we turned earth upside down. We piled laws on laws seeking salvation by legislation. CRIME was pyramiding 12 times faster than our population so we passed gun laws, taking guns away from people who obey laws.

Last year ground control spent 350,000 of taxpayers dollars to try to discourage people from smoking and 30 million taxpayers' dollars to subsidize the growing of more tobacco. With right and wrong indicators inverted, we applauded filth in the name of free speech. Your parked car is stolen; the thief may go free but you will be punished for leaving the keys where they belong. An intruder breaks into your house; you shoot him; he can sue you. When we had a fixed star to steer by we could stray off course and yet find our way back.

Now the stars are an oblong blur. We sentence American sons to fight a winless war. If they destroy enemy villages and villagers with bombs, we decorate them; if they do it with guns, we court-martial them. WHEN there is more compassion for the rapist than for his victim When we reward the loafer with more after-taxes dollars than the worker When the policeman who risks his life in a shootout with a felon subsequently finds himself on trial-Then the inversion of right and wrong has resulted in a perversion of justice. You start a business.

The government says how you run it. The law says whom you' hire. The union says what you pay. And it's called "free enterprise." And trouble always starts out being fun. Women started with immodesty ended up topless, then bottomless.

Then popping pills from the sheer boredom of it all. How can we turn the world right-side-up again? Only thing I know to do is to get back in contact with the Builder of our spaceship and re-read his directions. JANE FONDA publicity lure Marianne Means In Washington Sen. Bayh Eyes White House As He Mends Fences at Home Antibiotics Can Be Harmful Unless They're Prescribed i HPHE day after the second J- invasion," recalls Miss Means, "there were helicopters full of newsmen on the island. We got together and decided on I suggested we take what food we had and cache it in case they wanted to kick us off again.

But they didn't. The press was there." She. said the Coast Guard blockaded the island for three days. The Indians ran the blockade, bringing in food and water to the Alcatraz residents. "Oh, the publicity made the Coast Guard look had; so they finally lifted the blockade," she said.

"When the newsmen would interview us, -I'd scream into the microphone, 'I need milk for my baby!" Earl Livermore and Richard Oaks were early leaders of the Alcatraz group. The leadership has changed often. Reports of bickering, politics and arguments come back from the island. "Sure, we fight," admits Miss Means. "That's good.

Indians are individuals and they always will be." The Alcatraz group includes Eskimos, Chippewas, Bannocks, Sioux, Apaches and others. The fact that these diverse tribes have managed to live together at all is an achievement. SOME call Alcatraz a failure because of lack of leadership and disagreement about goals. But others feel the fact that the Indians are on the land is proof of success. There is a success of another sort that has been achieved: a feeling or pride shared among the Indians.

All may. not support the Alcatraz islanders point for point, but all are affected by the sudden national importance of the Indian voice. The showdown over Alcatraz may come this summer. Alcatraz, disorganized and rent by differences, has developed a life. The Fort Law-ton movement, peopled in part by former Alcatraz leaders, is just being born.

The united Indians of all tribes of Fort Lawton started their movement in the light of slightly mocking publicity on March 8, 1970. forts to unify the state party, Bayh now seems likely to be Indiana's 1972 "favorite son," with both Hartke and St. Angelo genuinely in his corner. BAYH is also looking beyond his home borders, stepping up hi speaking schedule in places far from-Indiana and responding eagerly to publicity opportunities for' himself or his favorite project, the Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and provide direct elections. He even invaded enemy ter Dr.

George C. Thosteson (F 190 MeNiught Sv-rtdrte Inr. WASHINGTON. THE most important result of the recent public opinion poll that semjlegitimatized Sen. Birch Bayh, Ind.) as a Presidential dark horse is that Bayh himself has now started to take the idea seriously.

He has, in short, been bitten by the Presidential bug and the resulting infection shows every early sign of being as virulent a case as that of several other ambitious Democrats who have been mentioned as possible 1972 nominees. Bayh is a long way from mounting an overt Presidential campaign, but he is beginning to make the sort of moves and do the sort of planning that might, with luck, encourage the proper political lightning to strike. He took the first practical' step down the road to the White House last week when he patched up his frayed relations within his party in Indiana. A SOLID home base is practically essential to any Presidential aspirant; and Bayh's foundation has been crumbling beneath him ever since he lost an intra-party fight to replace state chairman Roy St. Angelo with his own hand-picked man.

He lavished praise at the state convention on his senior doesn't get them here he'll get them somewhere else" well, I wonder. It's a specious argument to begin with. It may be that Hot his own good!) your husband will find that he can't get these drugs anywhere else. If he can, then you have some more druggists who need to be told off. There are, as you can see, good reasons for requiring prescriptions.

There are many more good reasons that I haven't enumerated. But the government knows what it is doing when it insists on prescriptions. Thelaws are for the protection of the public, not for the doctors or the druggists. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Is there any sound medical reason why I get a severe headache from eating chocolate? I've been called silly and imaginative but I know I get the headaches.

Mrs. N. You may be allergic to chocolate, which is not unusual. Stay away from it. Send your questions to Dr.

George C. Thosteson, c-o The Philadelphia Inquirer, 400 N. Broad Philadelphia, 19101. Dear Dr. Thosteson: My husband had antibiotics prescribed after an operation 12 years ago.

Since then whenever he doesn't feel up to par or has a cold he takes them. I was under the impression that such prescriptions should not be refilled unless the doctor orders it. My husband didn't like it when I said so. So I spoke to the druggist and he only said, "If he doesn't get it here he'll get it some place else." I don't think this is right and it worries me. Mrs.

J.D. I don't think it is right, either, and it worries me, too. The druggists I know are conscientious about obeying the law, but your account and other indications show that there are some scofflaws in that profession, too. Some prescriptions are of a type that can be refilled once or more; others should not be refilled at all But antibiotics in general can upset the balance of the various organisms which flourish normally in the body. Reducing the bacteria in the digestive tract, for one example, can permit yeast and fungus organisms to multiply.

4 1Vt A V. V. A VS wA iV Ul ami's Tiger Bay Club, an au-. dience made up predominant--) ly of fans of Judge Har rold Carswell. (Senate candi-'-date Carswell had been invited to introduce Bayh, whon, led the Senate fight against" his Supreme Court nomination, but Carswell declined.) If Bayh can't quite manager to advance from a relatively nnknnnm Harlr hnrc tit fnll.

blown Presidential candidate," tlioiu U. fall Fo- another instance, brief use of antibiotics can suppress bacteria, yet allow some to survive and become resistant to that particular antibiotic. These resistant germs cause a great deal of trouble. For yet another reason, antibiotics seldom are of any use with a cold because most colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics will not control viruses. Such use is a waste of money, in addition to the other troubles which may result.

A word to your doctor about this situation may straighten that druggist out. He needs to be jacked up. As to his argument that "if he SEN. BIRCH BAYH gets serious colleague, Vance Hartke, with whom he has periodically feuded and who had sided with St. Angelo in the recent struggle.

He also initiated a secret makeup session with Hartke during which he pledged his all-out support in Hartke's reelection campaign this fall. No specific quid-pro-quos were made, but the implication hung heavy in the air that Bayh expected Hartke's support in exchange, if needed, in two years. Indeed, because of these ef position of second spot. Wis ciinnnrtr Via vp oTl busilv nointin? out the ideal combination that a Muskie-Bayh ticket would make, with the geographical origin, eth-" age and philosophical appeal ol the two men perfectly -complementing each other..