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Says Leaking News Common in Capital July I 1972 Des Moines Tribune An Independent Newspaper PMP Km IPf Mil rrrudml and Publithrr KFVVfTH Mf DfiM! tHilnr A. EP 4 RP Hf IN- Wonnjinf F.iiilnr LAI Rf SrTH hrlttnrtnl Pngr lM 15 H. Nowil. fluwini Manager CsHDMR Loi Lf.5 inirmnn lAe Romd WORLD CHESS CMIONSHIP RFrMIK.tCMD Clayton Fi itchey Los Angeles Times Syndicate WASHINGTON. D.C.

It's difficult for those who are not familiar with the Washington scene to understand or sympathize witn the -leaking'' of classified government in-f a i to the press. Once this is in its true context, however, the reaction is usually quite different. That is whv the at ummu mm iMr torneys for Dr. Daniel FJlsberg, the MIT and former CLAYTON FS'TCHEY "Mr. Fischer seems to be ready now shall we commence, Mr.

Spassky?" Letters to the Editor: Sees No Duplication in Aid-to-Poor Agencies leak has seriously affected the security of the United States. On the other hand, it is easy to find instances where leaks actually served the public interest by aborting ill-conceived government plans. The government always insists there is a difference between the official disclosure of secret information and unauthorized" disclosure. All administrations piously justify their leaks on the grounds of advancing policies which are supposedly in the public interest. But the counterleakers may be equally persuaded that the policy is designed more to advance the interests of the Administration than the nation, and consequently feel morally justified in disclosing information that will discredit the policy.

Obviously, right or wrong, that was and is Ellsberg's frame of mind. It shouldn't be difficult for the defendant's attorneys to show that some of the biggest leaks of all have originated in the White House. The present incumbent, for instance, committed one of the most memorable indiscretions of the postwar era when, as Vice-President in 1954, he told a group of newspaper editors (off the record) that the United States was prepared to send armed forces to Indochina to save the French army. It was the first tip-off that U.S. military action was secretly being considered.

Quickly Disavowed Fortunately, it was a leak that had a benign ending. The headlines inspired by Nixon's disclosure so agitated the public and Congress that the plan was quickly disavowed by President Eisenhower although, as we now know, Adm. Arthur Radford, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Paul Ely, representing France, had already agreed on the specifics of the opening U.S. strike.

Ellsberg's lawyers could also show that suppression of inside information hy the press has hurt rather than helped the country on occasion. A few days before the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, for instance, the New York Times discovered what was being planned, but, at the request of the government, watered down what otherwise would have been a momentous revelation. Later, President Kennedy ruefully told tire New York Times editors that if they had published the full story, the invasion would probably have been called off, and he would have been spared his worst mistake. government employe who is about to be tried for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the press, want to call a flock of defense witnesses to explain to the court how commonplace leaking is in the nation's capital, and just how this steady traffic is carried on every day. Common Practice It ought to be instructive to the public as well as the court.

Such expert testimony, coming from top officials of the government and experienced Washington correspondents who regularly cover the government, would go a long way to explain the defense contention that Ellsberg was "singled out for prosecution according to a principle of selection which is invidious, discriminatory and constitutionally impermissible." In short, the argument is that Ellsberg has done nothing that hundreds, nay, thousands of others haven't done, and, indeed, are still doing. The defense has not yet revealed the names of its special witnesses, but it should he no problem to produce prominent Washington figures who can testify that leaking at the highest levels of government goes on all the time, in the Nixon Administration as in previous ones, regardless of which party is in power. Over the years, a kind of informal agreement has developed between the government and the press: The government instinctively overclassifies everything, and the press does its best to "declassify" through discovery and publication. Both sides grumble at the practices of the other, but the arrangement continues because, on the whole, it works. Not Harmed By Leaks Despite the complaints of the government, it is hard to recall when any lo the fcdiior: The first paragraph of the article, "Aid Probe in Des Moines Sought" Tribune, 1, sta-tod that "Gov.

Robert Ray has requested an investigation into two federally funded An investigation is not necessary. All His Honor need to do is read the enabling legislation which brought the two programs I Greater Opportunities, and the Des Moines Community Development Agency into existence to find that duplication of services does not exist. Title HA subsection 212 in the Economic Opportunity Act. (EOA) of 19H4, and Title I section 103 ta) of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act iMDA i of Iflfiti have different scopes of services en-couched. The only reason for the investigation, perhaps, is the governor's hidden desires to deactivate the vocal chords of the citizenry in the decisionmaking process in Iowa The EOA makes it, mandatory for a coalition to he formed to establish policies.

The MDA designates elected officials as policymakers. The involvement of citizens in the MDA is buried in some innocuous euphemisms like "citizens advisory" or "citizens The EOA goes farther than the advisory capacity for citizens. It advocates the redistribution of power which enables the poor to be definitely included at the policymaking level. The article also states that "Both programs are designed to help poor people There is a big difference in saying poor people are helped and the quality and quantity of that help. The Community Development Agency (CDA) give services to the poor through traditional main line agencies.

Greater Opportunities (GO) enables the poor to reach a degree of self-sufficiency through their own efforts. The article stated that Ray and other otficials are concerned about the six neighborhood offices the CDA established in the past six months, "all except one within a few blocks of the six neighborhood offices that GO has been operating about six The former Model Cities director (Bill Snyder) recognized the point approximately a year ago. He was in the process of operating the citizens participation component through the existing GO neighborhood center (Gate way). However, the plan was shot down in the CDA process. Mayor Olson was quoted as saying that he would like GO's programs in Des Moines to be absorbed by the city CDA to eliminate any duplication.

The question of law-and-order comes into the picture here. The law states that a policymaking board for a community action agency must have on its board the community representation as follows: one-third of the members representing public officials, at least one-third of the members chosen in accordance with democratic selection procedures adequate to assure that they are representatives of the poor in the area served, and the remainder to be officials or members of business, industry, labor, religious, welfare, education, or other major groups and interests in the community. It will be interesting to note whether the mayor and the governor are going to follow the law, make new laws or ignore the law and go on and do what they please. Alfred B. Brown (former executive director of Greater Opportunities, 1527 Harrison Des Moines 50314.

Castro in Moscow Fidel Castro, "maximum leader" of Cuba, spent days in the Soviet Union. He was lionized by the Russian people, who regard him as a romantic hero, much more personable than their own stodgy leaders. Soviet government and party leaders value him as an authentic revolutionary who won Cuba away from United States neo-colonialism and turned to Cuban and Soviet Communists to keep in power. But the Moscow hierarclis don't idolize him. A Communist Cuba is an expensive luxury to I he Soviet Union.

The United States estimates that it costs Russian taxpayers a million dollars a day. But what a bone in the throat for Uncle Sam! Even the peace-loving President Eisenhower said it was "intolerable" but his warlike successors Kennedy, Nixon have had to tolerate it. The 4.000-word communique issued when Castro left Russia didn't give any figures, but it pledged continued heavy Russian support. It condemned the continuing U.S. economic and diplomatic embargo of Cuba, which it called a "blockade," and "demanded" the "unconditional withdrawal" of the United States from its naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba.

But a good deal of the communique was devoted to having Castro join in saying things that must, have come somewhat painfully to him. It told how wise Soviet foreign policy is, how "principled" and ''anti-imperialist" it is, how it contributes to the "liberation" struggle without use of force internationally. Castro is known to have wanted to promote Cas-troite Communist revolutions all over Latin America. The 5.viot leaders are believed to have damped down his efforts after some early failures, tlmugh continuing to give lip-service to "the liberation struggle." William Ryan of the Associated Press interprets the communique as forcing Castro to agree, that Big Brother knows best. The Soviet view is that in the wind-up of the Cuban missile crisis of 19f2, Nikita Khrushchev got President Kennedy to promise that the United States thereafter would not try to overthrow the Communist government of Cuba by force.

The United States interpretation of the agreements is but the United States has consistently acted as if the Soviet view were correct. Today, with Moscow stodgy and Castro largely dclanged, the U.S. non-recognition, no-trade policy makes little sense if it ever did. If President Nixon can drink toasts with Communist super-maximum leaders in Moscow and Peking, why can't his fellow citizens buy Cuban cigars or take a trip to Havana? Family Practice Clinic Ground-breaking ceremonies were held Thursday for a new clinic at Broadlawns Polk County Hospital which will be used to train students, interns and residents interested in family practice, or primary can; medicine. II will be operated in co-operation with the University of Iowa College of Medicine.

The Des Moines clinic will be the first away from the medical school's Iowa City area complex to oiler family practice training. The medical school plans to have similar clinics and training in Cedar Rapids. Mason City and possibly other Iowa cities. Family practice is a "new" field of medical "specialty." It is the modern-day version of what the old-time family doctor did, augmented by new scientific knowledge, diagnostic measures and treatments. The idea is to persuade families to line up witli a family practitioner who will assume the role of medical caretaker for all the family members, giving regular physical examinations, treating common ailments and seeing that serious problems arc brought to the attention of the proper specialists.

The College of Medicine began specialized training in family practice about a year ago. The program was seen as one means of stemming the outmigralion of medical graduates to urban medical centers in other states. The family practitioner is Hie kind of doctor needed in many of Iowa's small towns and rural areas. When the Broadlawns clinic is completed next year, it will take 25 to 30 interns and residents who will receive from one to three years of post-graduate training They will help take care of patients in i he hospital as well as those who come to the clinic for checkups and minor treatments. In addition, I com live to eight senior medical students will come to Broadlawns every month for training.

Backing up the trainees will be the hospital's regular medical staff. The hospital's diagnostic equipment, laboratories and pharmacy will be shared with the clinic. Construction of lire clinic will improve the medical services available to the poor in this area and will improve the practical training for students at the of I Medical College. Asks Support of Child Development Bill Alsop Predicts "Carnage" At Democratic Convention needed to provide for the growth and nurture of children in their early years, there must be participation by both the state and federal governments in financing this program. Every child, regardless of the financial status of his family should have access to adequate child care facilities.

Welfare reform is admittedly needed. One of the best ways to reduce the welfare roles is by providing incentive to both children and parents to reach their potential. That is the purpose of the Child Development Bill. Helen McDonald, Tiny Tot Guild, 5440 Waterbury Rd Des Moines. like myself, have formed a guild which supports the Tiny Tot Centers financially and with volunteer service.

We do not require day care for our own children. If we chose, many of us could work outside our home or further our educations and still provide for our children. Because we are so impressed with the potential of Tiny Tots Centers to hring dignity and incentive to parents and provide total care to pre-school children during their critical years we must support the Child Development Bill. Comprehensive child care is expensive. To insure the quality of care Joseph Alsop Los Angeles Times Syndicate WASHINGTON, D.C.

By all the signs, the Democratic National Convention at Miami Beach will be a scene of fratricidal carnage. After what has been lo the editor: Luckily, Iowa's Senators Hughes and Miller didn't agree with Kilpatrick's column of June IS condemning the Child Development Bill. They voted for it when it overwhelmingly passed the Senate 7.1-12 recently. Interestingly enough, Kilpatrick recognized the need tor day care especially tor the ghetto child frequently without, a lather present and mother working, dumped with sitters or relatives, otten far behind by the lime he starts school, doomed to fail academically the whole cycle repeated with the male child growing up to a life of crime and the female to spawn illegitimate offspring. He states, "If this depressing cycle could be broken for $2,372 per year per pre-school child, it might, be the best money the lax-payers ever spent." Three Des Moines Tiny Tot Day Care Outers, under he direct ion of a remarkable woman, Evelyn Davis, i ample evidence comprehensive day cart! works.

For less money per child than Kilpatrick's figures, mothers formerly on ADC can work or receive job training knowing their children have good care. Comprehensive Day Care concerns itself with the total needs of the child emotional, educational, medical and nutritional. It also requires parent involvement. A group of Des Monies residents, the majority whom are inilhers happening in the Cre Pities Thief of Son's Bicycle dentials Com mittee, most factions are thirsting for blood. It i5: .4.5 1 is hard to see how! massive bloodshed can i be avoided- The chief motived power of the stop-' McGovern movement JOSEPH ALSOP In the Editor: I've been wondering all afternoon about the people who stole three bicycles from the garage of a friend Sunday night.

The bikes all 10-speeds and new this spring belonged to my 13-year-old son and two of his friends. I wonder if these people know how hard these three hoys worked on their paper routes to earn enough money to pay for their bicycles. I wonder if these people who stole the bicycles know the thrill and anticipation involved in riding a new 10-peed bicycle home from the bicycle shop, testing out the gears, mentally anticipating the high hills lo be climbed up and coasted down on summer days. I wonder if these people know what they are teaching these boys about the brotherhood of man. At first, I felt only anger toward these people because to steal from children is a terible thing, but now I pity them, too.

How little sensitivity they have and what small joy they must find in their lives. I just hope that some day they will realize that their crime goes much beyond the theft of a bicycle. Mrs. Elaine Coyle, 1246 Forty-sixth Pes Moines 5031 1. is the tear ot many leading Democrats, all over the country, that Senator George McGovern will drag great numbers of his party's other candidates down to defeat.

But brother killing brother on nationwide television is not going to help the party either. Hence there is another question which arises from this belated but determined stop-McGovern movement. Resides the alarm inspired by McGov-ern's candidacy itself, is there some other motive behind this willingness to risk public bloodshed? Publicity Photo The answer lies in the character of the McGovern movement itself. Here, one may as well begin with the wonderfully funny publicity photograph of "the senator and his advisers conferring," alter the Credentials Committee vote on the McGovern delegation from California. The advisers shown for public con- Expects Big Rise in U.S.

School Aid The Big Chess Match lien jam in line Worth Ampncan Newnpappr Alliance MASSIVE increase in federal li- sumption were people like a couple of the more cowardly-fashionable, former Pentagon planners in the early days in Vietnam; a couple of relatively presentable scientists vowed to unilateral disarmament; and so on and on. Whatever you might think of these people's views, respectability and normality were the keynotes obviously by design. What made the photograph so funny was that none of the persons represented as McGovern advisers really mat-tors a tinker's dam. Frank Mankiewicz, the chief strategist, and Pierre Salinger the jack-of-all-trades, really do matter in the McGovern high command. These, and a few others like them, do not give normal Democratic politicians the creeps.

But even these were not photographed. (live Politicals The Creeps Meanwhile, all normal Democratic politicians are given the creeps, in the most, acute form, by the McGovern people who matter most of all, and were most conspicuous by their absence from the photograph. These are the score or more of brilliant young men headed by the useful Denver lawyer, Gary Hart, who put together the McGovern organization. Minus bomb-throwing, these young men's views, on average, are not easily distinguishable from the views of more loud-mouthed New Left leaders. Genuine New Left views are not popular or average American views.

Yet this little band of men shrewdly invented ways to channel the emotions of the country's left-wing minority (with emphasis on youth, naturally) in the thoroughly efficient and coldly organized political activity. Semblance Misleading; Most primaries can be won by organized minorities; and that has 'been the secret of McGovem's success. But judging by the cold arrogance, the indiscreet extremism and the unpleasantv vengefulness that the McGovern people nave shown in state after state, the leaders of the organization have more long-term aims than mere success for McGovern. -Judging by the inadequate record to dale, in fact, their main aim seems to be taking over and remolding the entire Democratic Party. Maybe the spinolance is misleading.

Yet it has fully persuaded the governors, senators, congressmen and other leading Democrats who have given real fiber and staying power to the stop McGovern movement. These experienced Democratic leaders think they are certain to be put "it" the trash can by the McGovern People and they do not like it. A nancial sunnnrl for schools and drastic changes in stale support programs appear inevitable within the next two or roe years. School fi nance authorities pre dict a fourfold jump from the current 7 per cent federal share of total school costs. Administration offi cials, close to President Nixon, say they are considering more 1 1 II inn a 3(111 per cent eWiii -tf mmmmmm KNJAMIN iNt boost to the current $5 billion annual federal contribution.

school finance expects to have a school finance legislation proposal for President Nixon by late summer. "We are assuming that something will have lo be done in every slate to equalize expenditures and that the federal government through new assistance will have lo encourage them lo act." Saunders said. The Administration is also exploring ways to help stales reduce or eliminate the property tax as a source of sc hool income. A move in this direction, which is being seriously considered, could result in a new annual federal investment in education of from $12 billion to $15 billion. From 7 Per Cent To :10 Per Cent If the states lake over the school finance responsibility and if they move to equalize per-pupil expenditures, then the federal share may have to go up from the present 7 per cent to 30 per cent of school costs.

Of major significance to the new direction of school aid is what happens when stales begin to equalize expenditures. Since states are expected to raise all districts to a per-pupil expenditure nearer the high-spending districts, the costs of leveling up is going to be large. To level up districts to within 95 per cent of Ihe highest spenders in each state will add at least $9 billion to the nation's bill for schools. Most authorities believe federal government will have to pay all or part of this new expense in addition to the cost of property lax relief. High Cost It is evident that public school financing will have to he reformed.

To assist in this reform and to consider the special problems of the poor and minority groups in relation to cduca-lion, the Ford Foundation has awarded two new grants. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, headquartered in Washington, D.C., received $225,000 to provide legal assistance to individuals and groups engaged in school finance litigation. The Rand Corp. has received a grant of $179,875 to analyze the fiscal, governmental and educational implications of the recent state court decisions on school finance. The school finance law reform project of the Lawyer's Committee will draw on the voluntary resources of other legal and educaiional organizations.

The project will serve primarily as an information and documentation center for private and publicly-funded attorneys who are already involved in school finance cases, but it will also assist and advise, when appropriate, individuals and groups who otherwise cannot be legal representation. Well, Bobby Fischer lias apologized to Boris Spassky, and that should have cleared the way to starting the world championship chess tournament ai Reykjavik, Iceland. If the tournament finally is played, and Fischer wins, thereby becoming the first uoii-Kiissian world chess champion in more than Till years, the victory will have been tarnished hy his spoiled-cluld antics. Over a period ol months Fischer rejected several proposed sites lor the matches on grounds that i uy didn't oiler enough money. When Iceland, improbably, came up with an offer far richer than any chess match ever had drawn before, Fischer accepted.

The terms called for a five-eighths and three-eighths division of in prize money and an even split ol tit) per cent of television and movie revenues, estimated to he $75,000 to each man. Several days before the matches were scheduled to begin, however, Fischer suddenly demanded .10 per cent of the gate receipts, too. The Icelanders already had sunk several hundred thousand dollars into preparations and they hoped to recover their investment at the gate, so they refused. Then Fischer refused to play. But when a London chess fan offered to sweeten the pot.

by $125,000. Fischer agreed to play. Technically, he already had forfeited the match by not appearing on time, and technically the International Chess Federation broke its rules by overlooking this in an effort to save the match. Chess champions tend In be a temperamental lot, and championship chess at the highest levels lakes on the characteristics of a war of nerves. Much of Fischer's hullaballoo, and most of Spassky's, probably was an attempt to "psych" the other fellow Simultaneously.

Democratic leaders are also committing themselves to massive increases. Thus, no matter how the election goes, the tide for more federal sclmol dollars will not be impeded. A series of events has caused this financial commitment: court cases requiring equalization of per-pupil expenditures within stales and the discovery by politicians of the political appeal of efforts to reduce or eliminate the property tax as a school revenue source. Deputy Commissioner Charles Saunders of the U.S. Office of Education said that the new Health.

Education and Welfare (HEW) task force on "The battle is to decide who gels to ride me in Ihe big race." and fchake his emotional balance at the beginning..