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Relations With Moscow Cool Mexico No Longer Complacent on Kremlin Spies 8-A THE TAMPA TIMES, Wednesday, March 31, 1371 The story of the young terrorists, as it has now been embarrassingly disclosed, began about 1966 when the first group of Mexican exchange students completed their regular studies in Moscow. They are reported to have asked Russian authorities to provide guerrilla instruction before their return to Mexico. Robert S. Allen John A. Goldsmith J.

C. COUNCIL Chairman of the Editorial Board H. DOYLE HARV1LL. Managing Editor G. W.

JOHNSON Editorial Page Editor Calley Does Not Stand Alone were sent secretly to an activist training school in North Korea and, finally, back to foment revolution in Mexico. Some of the former students have reportedly told the full story to Mexican authorities. The details, which blow the Russian intelligence "cover," are said to be especially distasteful to the long-tolerant Mexican government. Four of the five expelled "diplomats" are said, in intelligence circles here, to have been identified as known operatives for the Russian intelligence agency, KGB. demeanor ended abruptly a couple of weeks ago when young militants, trained in Russia and North Korea, were picked up as leaders in a revolutionary student movement operating terrorist training camps in Mexico.

Five Russian diplomats, including a second secretary, were declared persona non grata and expelled. As it developed, they had been involved in the selection of three "classes" nearly 50 students who were invited to attend the Patrice Lumumba School in Moscow. After each group pleted the course there they The public reaction in Mexico has been angry. Mexican authorities are reported to be very upset at long last. Relations between Mexico City and Moscow are reported "cool." more than 60 at times (not counting wives, who are sometimes intelligence experts) was first assumed to specialize in hemisphere intelligence work because its size was wholly dis Washington By their heavy-handed attempt to fan unrest in Mexico with Communist-trained student guerrillas, the Russians may have compromised one of their major clearinghouses for espionage and propaganda activity in the Western hemisphere.

That is certainly the hope of authorities here. There is, happily, reason to believe that the Mexican government will henceforth be much more interested in the activities which are centered in the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. For years the large staff of that Soviet embassy has been viewed by the intelligence community here as a major Kremlin intelligence installation. The embassy has been identified as the administrative center for KGB activity in Central America and a portion of South America. More importantly, the quondam Russian diplomats in Mexico City have been assumed to support much of the illicit activity in the United States.

The embassy is said to have operated as a haven and listening post and for underground entry to and exit from the U. S. The embassy staff, numbering the small society by Brickman if rr r- I i i- 1 BUI proportionate to the rather routine chore of representing Russia in Mexico. A year ago, as we have since reported, a lady translator. de: fected from the embassy and subsequently identified eight of nine members of a Soviet trade mission as undercover in- telligence agents.

Despite these assumptions, widely held around the world, Mexico had always given Moscow the benefit of the diplomatic doubt. What had not been proven was not presumed by the Mexico City authorities. That "correct" diplomatic AT ALL- 3-31 icKMMJ WoihiNf tan Star Syndicate. Inc Permissiveness Comes, Values Go Nostalgia Wave Is Reaction to Weakened Faith THE RETURNS ARE not yet in, but it is doubtful that the conviction of Lt. William L.

Calley jon charges of murdering 22 civilian South Vietnamese will be popular in the United States. There is a general feeling that Calley is being asked to shoulder the blame for the atrocities jvhich occur in wartime. What happened in the small village of My Lai has been repeated many times over in various forms. Any nation which engages in war has been guilty of crimes against civilian populations, calculated or accidental. I The United States is no exception and My Lai does not stand alone.

During World War II the city of Hamburg was devastated by a fire storm created by massive bombing attacks. The fire bombing of Tokyo caused more casualties than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. And civilians have died in South Vietnam during U.S. bombing attacks and Viet Cong raids. The Most Rev.

Paul L. Seitz, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kontum, wrote recently: "My people are the Montag-nards their villages have been burned, their rice paddies destroyed They live each day with the hope that soon they can return to their villages and rebuild their lives The courage of the Montagnards has been tested many times. One village has undergone seven attacks by the VC 200 dwellings ruined 65 killed at one time and 4,000 homeless." Of course, none of the VC were court-martialed. LT. CALLEY has not denied the slayings attributed to him.

Ke believed that he was acting under orders to clear an area in which the enemy can be members of the civilian population. In an interview given in advance of the verdict, Calley noted: "No one has tried to analyze the problems, to. my knowledge, that caused not only My Lai but the -war in Vietnam itself. I am hopeful that My Lai will bring the meaning of war to the surface not only to pur nation, but to all na tions Many people say war is hell who have never experienced it, but it is more than hell for those people tied up in it." i THE STORY OF My Lai is as old as the history of man with his penchant for aggression. Those lost on a guilt trip because of what happened there should read a recently released book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West," by Dee Brown (Holt, Winston).

The book's title is based on a terrible massacre of Indians by whites at Wounded Knee in 1890. Looking back, a survivor named Black Elk said: "I did not know how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.

It was a beautiful dream the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead." Lt. Calley was not alone at My Lai. Historical precedence was with him, walked beside him, helped pull the trigger. To blame him alone is a profound injustice.

The finger of guilt points all the way up the chain of command and beyond to the inability of man to control his insatiable desire for power and property. Look to the ghosts of Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Adolf Hitler. Blame Stalin and Mao Tse-tung, too. Until the character of mankind is changed there will be other wars and other My. Lais.

But perhaps the Calley trial and conviction has not been an exercise in futility if it succeeds, as Calley suggests, "in bringing the meaning of war to the surface not only to our nation, but to all nations." Should this ideal be realized we may, indeed, enjoy a generation of peace. by Henry J. Taylor retain whatever wisdom we have achieved. Not everything disappears, we hope. Unquestionably, we need a full amount of stoicism to meet today's decays head on and forestall today's deteriorations to which the wave of nostalgia is, of course, a reaction.

This calls for creative regeneration. And, happily, it has a history of occurring. Nostalgia is sweeping the. country the theatre, the arts, the movies, men's and women's fashions. The mood is the mode.

Even Life's cover shouted: "Everybody's Just Wild About Nostalgia." Hey, what's happening? This urge to recapture and duplicate the russet glow, the flush, the radiance of the past appears as ineluctable as Rip Van Winkle's joys. The Spanish word "alegria" means a deep-going happiness that nothing can stifle. Obviously, we do not have that now, if we ever had it. But the nostalgia phenomenon may best suggest that we return not so much to our earlier delights but to our faiths. on such a scale without injuring the mores of this nation.

Sailors sometimes find the world too much and prefer the smaller, more manageable world of a ship. There is something of that in all of us, of course, and this has a place in the nostalgia mood. Any nation's people usually believe in their own sets of values. These define what is properly permitted and tell the people what to think about themselves and about what is happening. But as permissiveness comes the values go.

And when the values go the majority of people are confused about themselves and about life. As a whole, a democratized nation is a country where the individual feels isolated. He is confused within himself and by the institutions and events around him bewildered by everything he sees ahead. The result is disintegration. But there is another side to this.

First, the permissiveness, for one thing, isn't as widespread as many people seem to think. Second, our true national urge is to courts, the' importance of family ties, useful work, patriotism, civil duty, our armed forces, the place America deserves in the world. Contrived maneuvers against all we cherish are self-evident. These are clearly systematized and they are contributing their poison to our unsettled minds and the spirit of our people. The established moralities have come unglued.

The push, push, push for permissiveness proceeds. Everywhere I go across our country millions feel that you can nearly smell the blind drift of events our people's blind drift with them. Our faiths simply cannot be so persistently slain, in so many directions and Perhaps we may be in for a period of enforced patience, such as a surgeon faces after an operation. In any case, we are always on trial. The future never comes in a box with instructions for assembling it printed on the box top.

We have to make the future for ourselves and our country as best we can. And if we have the faith that has made America great the opportunities remain unlimited and even larger than when the older, generations were untried and young. Today's movement toward nihilism, anarchy, separation and alienation not alone among the young and the cynicism that accompanies it, is in large part due to the undermined faith of our people: faith in our heritages, our schools and colleges, our churches, the Lament for a Lost Cause Cesar Chavez' Grapepickers and 'Radical Chic' Chavez has with the vineyard owners is a profoundly antidemocratic document. Party Congress By John Chamberlain In one sense, Ralph de Tole-dano's "Little Cesar," which comes to me in galley proofs with a foreword by U.S. Sen.

Paul Fannin of Arizona Anthem Books), is a post-mortem affair, a lament for a lost cause. The indubitable fact is that Cesar who could never organize the grapepickers of California's San Joaquin Valley by persuasion, has succeeded in forcing compulsory unionism on the vineyards by boycotting the Eastern supermarkets and destroying much of the profit in raising non-union table grapes. chic" by going into such rich communities as Southampton, Long Island, where Andrew Stein, Ethel Kennedy, Anne Uzielli, Charlotte Ford Niarchos and ex-track star Rafer Johnson put the bee on "women in silk pajamas and men in brightly colored pants" (the New York Times description of the guests) for funds for Chavez' sacred "causa." As one who drives a lot on business, I have always picked up hitchhikers. They usually have stories that are worth listening to. When Chavez turned to picketing the big Eastern supermarkets for handling California table grapes, I discovered that a lot of the shaggy, beaded kids on the road were engaged in traveling from city to city on Chavez' picketing business.

"I'm a good man in the table grape boycotting campaign," so one hiker along the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut told me when I offered to take him into New York City. Ralph de Toledano's story of how Cesar Chavez put over his union in California without ever getting or even permitting a voluntary expression of opinion is a devastating commentary on our supposed democracy. Personally, if any one wants a union I am all for letting him have it. However, the agreement that Mr. de Toledano says the "hiring hall" is embodied in the contract.

That means that workers do not go to the employer for their jobs; they go to the union, which remains the judge of their qualifications. In effect this guarantees Chavez a closed shop, which is something that is illegal under the National Labor Relations Act insofar as factory labor is concerned. Nobody in a democracy should be forced to accept a union without being given a chance to vote on it. day or night from any quarter" with a "devastating counter-blow." Although the Soviet official was not as harsh in his criticism of Communist China as many might have expected, he made it plain that the Soviet Union is the "big brother" that will call the tunes in the Communist world. Thus, Brezhnev chooses for the moment to advance world revolution through a new peace offensive in the expectation that his intended victims will cooperate.

Non-military methods are certainly easier for the non-Communist countries to combat if they will understand the total challenge. There remains the hope that with vigorous external counter-action and with the people of the Soviet Union demanding a greater stake in life, ultimately the drive of revolution will be blunted and will lose fervor. But any such metamorphosis is not just around the corner. Marx-ism-Leninism is still the idol before which all other considerations are sacrificed, and what may seem from a distance to be soft talk must not obscure hard facts. Few surprises have emerged so far from the big Communist conclave in Moscow.

In his six-hour keynote speech to the 24th party congress, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev did the expected in devoting a large part of his report to a discussion of foreign affairs. The familiar theme about the Soviet Union standing for "the nuclear disarmament of all states in possession of nuclear weapons" came through loud and clear. But ignoring the fact that the United States has sincerely tried for a long time to bring about agreements limiting the use of nuclear weapons, Brezhnev proposed not only a series of meetings among the five nuclear powers the Soviet Union, United States, France, Britain and Red China but also a world conference on general and total disarmament, In case Americans and some of our allies are tempted to read too much into his "peaceful coexistence" sales talk, it should be hoted he promised that Soviet military forces "are prepared to repel an enemy attack at any time of the can community of Delano, did not want Cesar Chavez to take charge of their future. They were making good money (an average of $2.10 an hour) and were receiving good overtime. Moreover, many of the workers owned their own homes in Delano, and could count on continued off-season work in pruning and fertilizing the vineyards.

Jose Mendoza sounded absolutely sincere. As a fanatic for voluntarism, I could go all the way with him in upholding the right of any worker to choose his own bargaining agent. What seemed suspicious to me was the strategy employed by Cesar Chavez and his "United Farm Workers Organizing Committee." They specialized in end runs, enlisting the help of the more "liberal" clergy in communities that were miles' away from the San Joaquin Valley and playing the game of "radical No Visible Means Of Support The vineyard owners caved in after months of economic pressure; many of them signed away their workers' rights by accepting a closed shop arrangement with Cesar Chavez without ever giving their employes a chance to vote their own preferences. I first became interested in the grapepickers' case several years ago when a man named Jose Mendoza came into my office in New York City and tried to explain, in halting English mixed with Spanish, that the members of the Mexican-Ameri- Times Shouldn't Crow Justice for the Manson People Separate Papers Needed fir i 3 "is .1 W' flk I mm, Voice of the people included the mutilation of bodies, flies far beyond the point of rationality. Yet, they are regarded legally sane in that they are capable of judging right from wrong.

Having judged, they embraced wrong as a way of life and challenged all who disagreed with them. They might have been invented by Franz Kafka, except they are not as complicated as Kafka's twisted characters. Their madness borders on the trivial and, as such, is a bit obscene. Perhaps inferiority is at the root of their troubled existence. Manson longed for greatness and encouraged others to accept him as a demi-god.

But his worshippers all suffer a mini-mentality and their adoration is more an insult than a compliment. Perhaps the greatest punishment is that he cannot die a martyr in his own eyes. There is justice after all. It is hardly surprising that a Los Angeles jury has prescribed the death sentence for Charles Manson and three young women accused of committing the baseless Sharon Tate murders. What is Surprising is that it required so much time and money to secure a conviction and penalty.

The question of guilt was hardly pver in doubt as the unrepentant defendants attempted to make a jpectacle of the trial, threatening judge, jury and prosecutors. It is doubtful that the execution order will ever be carried out. California has not used its gas chamber since 1967 and there is a possibility capital punishment will eventually be eliminated altogether by the United States Supreme Court, Meanwhile, Manson and his associates represent, if anything, a fetudy in abnormal psychology. Their calculated brutality, which Tampa A three-quarter page promotional advertisement in The Times proclaims some awards your newspaper recently received. But such a citation does nothing that would put you in the category of a good newspaper.

Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. When you get an award for being on top as a news media, top editorials and other pertinent qualifications of a purveyor of the news, then you can crow. When The Times was an independent newspaper it was considered the best in Tampa for publishing local news and other items of interest to the general public. Today The Times is merely a puppet of The Tribune, a clearing house lor what The Tribune doesn't want to print. Many times a page in The Times is a reprint intact of that day's Tribune.

I know it saves a lot of typesetting. How I wish we had two independent papers. The former owners of The Times sure let the Tampa public down when they sold it to The Tribune Company. Do you editors sit back and laugh when you, say to each other, "Look at the gullible public?" E.C.H. BROWN.