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MATTER OF FACT THE STAR'S Pages of Opinion By Joseph Alsop 1 3 tuhti YTtonWr hK Page 22 A Thursday, April 20, 1972 it 4 Supreme Court Wise In Loyalty Oath Ruling By Jeff MacNeely BY A 4-3 MARGIN Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Massachusetts loyalty oath which requires employes of that state to oppose violent overthrow of the government. We agree with the ruling and trust it is another indication that the high court is moving in a more sensible direction a direction as far as possible away from the position established under Chief Justice Earl Warren. In order to work for the state of Massachusetts or common-wealth, as it is known officially a person must swear to "oppose the overthrow of the government of the United States and of this commonwealth by force, by vio-1 or by any illegal or unconstitutional method." Nothing outlandish nor harmful, really. IT IS OUR FEELING any government employe should be proud to express such loyalty.

And that includes persons being paid by taxpayers on any level of govern- Labors Big Push: Defeat McGovern Sen. McGovern By BRUCE BIOSSAT ment city, county, state or federal. But Mrs. Lucretia Richardson, a research sociologist at a state hospital in Boston, refused to take the oath and was dismissed. Mrs.

Richardson, with legal assistance from yes, you guessed it the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, challenged the loyalty oath. Later, a decision by a special three-judge federal court in Boston struck down the clause, calling it "hopelessly vague." WE DON'T THINK it vague, hopelessly nor otherwise. Neither did Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and three of his colleagues Byron R. White, Potter Stewart and Harry A.

Blackmun. The Supreme Court opinion, of course, reverses the earlier federal court ruling. Three liberals remaining from the Warren court Justices William 0. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan Jr.

cast minority opinions. Justices William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell not on the court when the case was argued, did not participate. 0 0 0 IN WRITING FOR the majority, Chief Justice Burger said the "oppose" clause of the Massachusetts oath is merely a fol-lowup to swearing to uphold the U.S.

Constitution. Pointing out that although the second clause may be redundant, Burger added: Is no reason to strike it down; we are not charged with correcting grammar, but with enforcing a Constitution." Hear, hear! McGovern and Alabama Gov. George Wallace are widely seen as the protest candidates. Top labor in Massachusetts has a reinforcing reason for opposing McGovern. Some 12 union members are on various delegate candidate slates pledged to his chief rival here, Sen.

Edmund Muskie. If they don't win as individuals April 25, they don't go to Miami in July. from following him through factories and union halls, as I did, suggests he is pulling favorably with these people. McGovern makes an obvious point organized labor's ability to influence its rank and file is at a minimum in primaries, when workers seem to like to vent their grievances. THAT LEAVES HIM especially confident, since 1972 is shaping up as a big year for protest voting, and Then She "I takes tico to tangle, and ire don't get mad at the same time J.

1 ocl CIA Terrific Bargain, But There's This 'Thing' Actress Dorothy Lamour, discussing her successful 29-year marriage to William R. Howard, scion of a prominent Baltimore family. China And Hanoi HONG KONG By past standards, the Chinese Communist reaction to the North Vietnamese offensive Is genuinely striking. The word is being fairly openly passed in Peking that this is a Soviet enterprise, that the unlucky North Vietnamese have been the victims of bad Russian advice; and so on and on. FOREIGN DIPLOMATS and visit-ing dignitaries are not only getting this kind of line from Chinese officialdom.

In addition, Peking's moral support for Hanoi has been limited, as you might say, to the kind of conventional expression of family solidarity that decency requires at family funerals. It is a dreadful thing to say, but the evidence in truth suggests that Peking secretly hopes Hanoi's great offensive will actually turn out to be a family funeral. THIS IS ALMOST certainly because success for Hanoi is seen in Peking today as being tantamount to success for Moscow. Peking obviously has no liking for the prospect of a Soviet-allied, South-supported North Vietnam below China's Southern border. Even on the highest level and in the deepest intimacy, such a truth could never be spoken in Peking.

But the Soviet factor in the equation will apparently be enough to console Peking for Hanoi's defeat. THIS IS ONLY one aspect of the developing Asian political drama, moreover. Almost more significantly, Ta-keo Miki, one of the leaders in the throng of candidates to be the next prime minister of Japan, has just slipped into Peking in a polita inconspicuous manner. Former Foreign Minister Miki is a known political ally of still another prime ministerial candidate, Kakuei Tanaka, the minister of trade. About Miki's Visit Minister Tanaka, in turn, is an open advocate of intimate Sino-Japanese economic and technological cooperation, markedly including large long-term Japanese credits for Mainland China.

The visit by Miki Is no isolated phenomenon, either. So many Japanese businessmen are going to this year's Canton trade fair that they are having to be admitted in successive batches to ensure hotel accommodation. Far more important, the Japanese "trade" delegation in Peking has just been permitted to double in number. IT HAS BEEN given diplomatic privileges, though not diplomatic status, and it is to be headed by a leading Japanese diplomat "on leave." All this suggests Prime Minister Chou En-lai may already be thinking about dropping the other shoe at some time after Prime Minister Eisaku Sato leaves the premiership in Tokyo. The first shoe, of course, was the invitation to President Nixon, issued on the sternest grounds of balance-of-power politics.

THE OTHER SHOE to be dropped would be a Chinese Communist move toward the kind of relationship with Japan already suggested by Trade Minister Tanaka. The long-term consequences of such a Chinese move are hard to overstate. Here the point is, quite simply, that the Chinese are every bit as dynamic, clever and success-minded as the Japanese. If the other shoe drops, one will have to expect China to achieve the kind of economic growth in the next 15 years that Japan made, say, between 1952 and 1967. THE RATE OF growth is bound to be slower, of course.

But consider what the world will look like in 15 years if the Chinese economy begins to grow consistently at even half the Japanese rate, starting from China's huge base of population and resources! The prospect is awe-inspiring. There is no other phrase. And this really is the prospect, maybe not immediately but at least NATIONAL AFFAIRS By Bill Anderson Cars Too Compact For Cops BOSTON (NEA) Responsible sources here say that, in labor's behalf, up to 300,000 pieces of literature attacking Sen. George McGovern's labor record may have been distributed to working men before Tuesday's Massachusetts presidential primary campaign. I was told by one source these pamphlets stress the fact that, years ago, McGovern supported the drive for a right-to-work law in his own state of South Dakota, and that he also voted against a bill in Congress to repeal the section of the basic Taft-Hartley labor law which provides the federal loophole for such state laws.

Asked what other items the literature might contain, this source said: "ANYTHING ELSE that reflects on his record." Purpose of this kind of an undertaking is clear to stop the surging McGovern, most specifically and immediately in his promising bid for victory in the Massachusetts primary, but also in his larger quest for the Democratic nomination to be settled in July. It has been evident for a long time that both organized labor leaders in general and many top regular Democrats oppose McGovern's nomination. LABOR SEES HIM as unfriendly and too leftist. For these and other reasons, some party chiefs rate him unelectable. Even before I learned of the proposed anti-McGovern literature blast, I had been advised by a key Democrat to expect a blocking move from labor's side.

I asked McGovern in an interview what effect such an effort would have, and he answered: "IT WOULD HURT." Though he told me he thinks he ought to win this primary more decisively than any he has competed in so far, the senator has said again and again that his prospects here are tied closely to his chances of success in the blue-collar neighborhoods in Boston and across this state. Indeed, he sees his whole campaign hinged to a broadening appeal. Off his a nable success with blue-collar voters in his Wisconsin primary triumph April 4, McGovern is confident he can do it here, too, despite any effort to stop him. HIS SCHEDULE IN THE final two weeks of the Massachusetts campaign was deliberately pointed to working-class districts in the industrial centers. And the visible evidence one gets A CHICAGO suburb became one of the last police departments to give up compacts and return to full-sized prowl cars.

Principal argument against the economical models seems to be that policemen just don't look like policemen when they are at the wheel or emerging at an accident or a disturbance. No solid reasons were offered, such as an increase in cases of resisting arrest, or a lack of respect for policemen by the public' 0 0 0 WE SUSPECT it's psychological. You just can't think big and feel authoritative when your head is scraping the roof and your knees are jammed against the dashboard of your car. WASHINGTON In an effort to cheer taxpayers, who need it at this time of the year, I have made an exhaustive study of the federal budget book searching for bargains. On page 860 there is a real winner.

It is the Central Intelligence Agency-According to the auditors, the CIA is not costing the taxpayers one red cent this year. In 1971, yes, it cost $2 million for a new building. But today, nothing. THIS IS amazing, especially when one considers all of the accounts of how the CIA is running airlines in South America, financing armies in Cambodia, and digging all of those tunnels under the Berlin Wall. According to some accounts, the CIA is at least as large as the State Department, and over there in Foggy Bottom the administrative cost is roughly $250 million, depending upon how Sen.

William Fulbright, feels at any given moment. Of course, the CIA is located in the low rent district of Virginia in the hills and valleys near the Potomac River. BUT EVEN so, nothing is not very much to pay for even that kind of land and all of the people walking around on it. And, there are a lot of people working in those buildings, according to my associate, Hit Henderson, who slipped in there the other day with the cleaning women on a No. 56 bus.

Henderson reported he saw several hundred cars in the free parking lots accorded to the spies and assistant spies. Hell Sit Right Down And Write Himself THE LIGHTER SIDE By Dick West IN ADDITION, several hundred other persons were coming to work on the second shift as the day-time crowd rushed home with their attache cases. Henderson slipped in under the guise of a nursery worker (trees, not babies) and also reported back that the CIA's formal gardens were nicely landscaped, the furniture in the headquarters building was new and modern, and there were deep-piled rugs on some of the executive wing floors. He mentioned that the sign-in sheet for visitors must have cost at least $100, namely because it was on a swivel and made several copies. ON THE WAY out, Henderson noted that his stashed car, waiting in the visitors parking lot, was blocked by other visitors.

Oh, yes, the murals on the walls were modern art, although Henderson himself prefers the classics. He could not estimate a cost, if there was one. In a further effort to find out how the CIA operated on a no-cost basis, I personally got in touch (the method must remain secret) with Col. C. Gordon Furbish one of the most knowledgeable persons in the metropolitan area of Washington.

(Furbish is the creator of the saying, "Remember, no matter where you go, there you "I AM NOT at liberty to discuss the financial operations of the CIA," Furbish said for the record. "However, I can tell you on a not-for-attribution basis that they snitch money out of the rest of the federal budget with special code designations." The colonel confided that the code word for the CIA in the rest of the budget was listed under "things." Sure enough, he was right. It's even on the White House budget, put down as "transportation for things $1,000." In the Department of Agriculture, "transportation of things" was recorded at $63,000. IN THE RURAL Electrification Administration, "things" cost Even the sub budgets listed "things." And there you are, another Anderson expose: The CIA's money comes from "things." And if readers think they are being bearded, the whole "thing," for CIA and everybody else, the entire federal budget, adds up to roughly $256 billion this year. So tonight, if you get Indigestion while worrying if your tax return will bounce, take a couple of pills.

You can tell your wife "I can't believe that I paid for the whole thing." Jim Berry's World WASHINGTON (UPI) Like many another "taxpayer and citizen" caught in the mid-April crunch, Walter Flowers of felt an urge to write his congressman and complain about high taxes. But unlike most other taxpayers and citizens, Walter Flowers is his congressman. SO HE wrote the letter to himself. Addressed to "Congressman Walter Flowers" and signed by "Walter Flowers, taxpayer and citizen," it appears this week in the congressman's newsletter. And it reveals that Citizen Flowers is a remarkably tolerant and affable constituent.

Many taxpayers have been berating Congress for enacting tax laws that are excessively complicated and tend to favor the wealthy. But Citizen Flowers refrains from that sort of abuse. HE MERELY POINTS out that taxes are burdensome and that Congressmen and public, officials have an obligation to exercise monetary prudence and restraint. I feel certain that Congressman Flowers will find the letter persuasive and will act in a manner that will meet with Citizen Flowers approval. Indeed, that type of letter is potentially so influential as to make one wonder whether other public officials mijiht not be engaged in similar correspondence.

"DEAR SEN. MUSKIE: Although I ME? the polls show you are already ahead, you need a big victory in the New Hampshire primary to impress the political reporters. "Here's how to do it: "Rent a flatbed truck and make an emotional speech attacking the publisher of the Manchester Union Leader. "A few tears will help put it across and bring in extra votes. "Sincerely yours, "Ed Muskie" "DEAR MR.

ATTORNEY General: It appears the Senate will confirm your nomination by an overwhelming majority. "I'm sure, however, that you are reluctant to take office while that ITT matter is hanging fire. "So why not ask the senate judiciary committee to reopen the hearings? "When all the facts are established, it will make you look even better and get you off to a running start in your new job. "Very truly yours, "Richard Kleindienst" "DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Just a note to let you know you did the right thing both militarily and politically in resuming the bombing of North Vietnam and I am with you one-hundred per cent.

"Don't let those references to LBJ discourage you. "Your friend, "Dick Nixon" tor the long term, except on one hideously grim condition. Every outlook will be altered If the Soviets undertake the nuclear castration of Communist China, for which they have been preparing for so long and at such incredible expense. BRAIN-DRAINERS What famous man was buried in Westminster Abbey in an upright position? A According to tradition, Ben Jonson, the English poet and playwright. OOO How many minarets or towers must a mosque have? A All mosques have at least one minaret; some have it ORLANDO EVENING STAR JIM MicDONALD.

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