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DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, AUGLar 3, 1973 2J KJfW Uz By STAN' CARTER Washington, Aug. 2--A gnawing fear that the Water gate scandal might tarnish the statesman's image that he wants to be remembered by was evident in an extraordin ary baring of President Nixon's thoughts the other night. a lm, Ufa- By JAMES DUDDY and DONALD FLYNN Bronx Criminal Court Judge Bruce Wright has paroled without bail an escaped convict who, it turned out, had two outstanding warrants against him and a record a dozen arrests, it was learned yesterday-Wright, who is known for paroling1 black and Puerto Biean defendants without bail because be considers bail to be "a white measure of justice," Nixon's foremost goal what he wants to be remembered for in tiie history books is to build a more peaceful world. This was the reason for his trips to Peking and Moscow during his first term. "Measured against the challenges we faced and the goals we set, we can take satisfaction in the record of the past four years," the President said in his State of the World report to Congress at the beginning of this year.

World Peace Comes First in paroled the man "During the next four years with NlXOn TnOUQhtS tn help of others we shall continue building an international structure which could silence the sounds of war for the remainder of this century." But since then, the Watergate dam has burst over Nixon's administration. The President sounded less confident at a state dinner for visiting Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka the night before last. Usually at such affairs, the after-dinner toasts follow a store at Fordham Road, on the Grand Concourse, refused to give police his name. Brought into Night' Court on a shoplifting charge Smith allegedly had stolen 15 record albums worth about $50 he was identified only as "John Doe." Harvey Kaminskyv chief of District Attorney Mario Merola's Criminal Court bureau, commented, "In cases where a defendant gives nc name, it's a dead giveaway he Is hiding something that something being a past criminal record." According to Judge Wright met the prosecutor's objection by asking the defendant to give his name. The man then said he was "Phil Smith." He was then released on parole.

The district attorney's office said it was not even given time to check out the man's identity or the New York City address he gave which turned out to be phony. Nor would Judge Wright wait for the fingerprint record. Smith walked out at about 8 p.m., and at 10 p.m. his record arrived. It showed that he was convicted of heroin selling in 1972 in Bennets-ville, S.C, and had been sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison.

Two months later, he escaped. In the fall of 1972, Smith was arrested in Brooklyn on burglary charge. On Sept. 20 he failed to appear in court, and a bail-jumper warrant was issued for him. Other Arrests Cited The Bronx district attorney's office said Smith's record goes back to 1968 and includes also arrests for petty and grand larceny, sale and possession of drugs and possession a weapon.

Wright has made no secret of his policy of releasing black and Puerto Rican defendants in low or no bail. In 1971 he once released 18 of 24 fendants without bail including one charged with attempted murder. In December of 1972, Wright released in $'00 bail a man accused of shooting a policeman. Wright commented in March of this year that even tuougn ne refused to tell police bis name. In spite of protests by Assistant Dis-t i Attorney Steve Frankel that the man be held until his identity or record was known, "Wright let him go within a few minutes.

Two hours later, a fingerprint record revealed that the man had been convicted as a heroin seller, and was an escaped convict and a bail jumper wanted on a burglary charge in formula of friendly platitudes. Nixon surprised the more than 100 guests and certainly Tanaka by launching into a philosophical dialogue about how "petty little, indecent things" should not be allowed to interfere with the work of statesmen building a better world. The President did not mention the word "Watergate," but his daughter, Tricia Cox, said afterward, "Of course that is what he was talking about." Nixon said that he and Tanaka had talked earlier in the day about "the Prime Minister's feeling, and my feeling, about the role he and 'I have to play in the brief time we are on the position of world leadership." "We talked about this world in which we live," he said." We talked about the fact that Japan and America, working together, not against anybody else, but working for peace and for progress, for decency, civility, that Judge Bruce Wright He is critical of cop some cops lie in court "to fatten their arrest Brooklyn. The Bronx district attorney's office said it does not expect the man identified as Phil Smith, Frank Smith, Eugene Smith or Frank Johnson to show up on the hearing date of Aug. 30.

Smith, when arrested Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., bv a store detective in Alexander's department records." and that cops perhaps "should be psy choanalyzed before being allowed on the force." Cops, in turn, call Judge Wright Cut- em-loose Bruce." Kakuei Taluk Making the difference Irflo FflGldls Off DOH SDBt ime Con Pens Thanh-You Note fo Judge By DANIEL O'GRADY The convicted junkie-pusher was filled with" hatred for the judge when he was sentenced on May 3 to three years three years cut off from the heroin highs that, for him, had twisted reality into a more acceptable form; flights from the real world financed by peddling packets in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick. Then the steel bars of the state prison farm at Elmira slammed shut behind 23-year-old Luis Ve we could make the difference as to whether the 3 billion people on this earth will grow up in peace and in friendship, or in ugly confrontation, and eventual nuclear destruction. "It is so jeasy these days to think in other terms, to think In the mimscule political terms that I think tempt us all from time to fame. in the murky field of political partisanship, but what really matters is this: After our short time on this great world stage is completed and we leave, what do we leave? "And so, let others spend their time dealing with the murkv small, unimportant, vicious little things. We have spent our time and will spend our time in building a better world Tncia interpreted the statement as a repetition of Nixon's remark when he returned to the White House after a week's hospitalization for pneumonia last month: "Let others wallow in Waterl gate.

We are going to do our job." Assuming that her interpretation was correct, Nixon also was putting new emphasis on his determination to carry on his statesman's role. The World Is Going By' WehaTe rault every nati" has its faults," the President said, "but our total dedication at this time in our historv is toward using our great material resources and our emotional resources and our intellectual resources toward really building a better world and not let ourselves be remembered only for the petty, little, indecent things that seem to obsess us at a time when the world is going by." feie leaders who have trooped through Washington since the Watergate spilled over have all denied that the scandal has had any effect on their relations with the United States. "It does not enter my mind to think of whether Mr. Nixon has lost or gained any influence because of the affair," Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev said before his visit in June.

"My attitude toward Mr. Nixon is one of verv ereat respect." 6 "The pivotal role that the United States has in the world has not changed," Tanaka said. "This internal affair will not affect it." But the Shah of Iran acknowledged a worry that "in any country, there is a danger to have a weak executive, anywhere in the world I don't want to mention any event, but what I can say emphatically is that if the power of the President of the United States in split-second decision-making is weakened or jeopardized, that would be a great danger to the world." Lest Clott on Capitol Hill Whatever the impact on relations with other countries, it is ga, a father of four who lived at 519 Broadway, Brooklyn. For the first time in years, narcotic-induced numbness disappeared from his mind and Vega was forced to face reality. The product of Vega's enforced soul-searching was a thank-you letter to the man who had sent him away, State Supreme Court Justice Samuel A.

Spiegel. First of Its Kind "I have received obscene and threatening letters from persons I have sentenced," Spiegel said, "but I never before received one thanking me for sending him to jail." Vega wrote the letter on July 2. In part, it read: "Sir, it may sound funny to you, but I'm writing to thank you. Because I have been thinking about it and I decided that you were right. "Anyone who sells drugs, or tfif NEWS photo by Bill Meurer Justice Samuel Spiegal holds letter from Luis Vega.

hu3 iT111118 t0 With drus'! lot of thinking about my own should be put away. kids, and I wouldn't want them "Because drugs are a big in all the world. Especially to go through the same thing I went through. And I pray that I can make life a little better obvious that Nixon's loss of clout on Capitol Hill because of the scandal has already had an impact on his conduct of foreign policy. Speaking privately, a senior government official said that the Aug.

15 cutoff date for bombing in Cambodia imposed by Conn-ess in York City and in Brooklyn, where kids die every day of the week from drugs "A Better Life for Thef "Sir, I believe if everybody I wouldn't have to take drugs to keep me going. "So, sir, this is why I'm writing this letter to you, to thank you and my kids also thank you." Judge Spiegel said: "I am glad that this fan is rehabilitated and has seen the evil of his ways." Elmira Superintendent Vito Ternullo said that Vega has been well-behaved; he added: "In fact, he has been recommended by his counselor for transfer to one of the prison system's four forestry eamps, which are minimal security." Vega will become eligible for has virtually destroyed the administration's hope for a negotiated would help, the world would be settlement or the lighting still going on in that corner of Indochina. In addition, both the Senate and House have passed different for them. "So I feel that you have given me a chance to live and make it better for them. "Sir, at first I hated you for sending me away, but then I understood what had ahappened to me, so I started to face it.

Now I feel that all you did was to ive me time to find myself and versions of a bill to limit the President's powers to use U.S. forces abroad without congressional approval; and legislation to bring home a better place to live. Sir, a lot of people don't understand that life doesn't make us, we make life. And the way we make it is the way it is going to be for us and our children. "So you see.

since I have U.S. troops rrom feurope is given a better chance than ever before. Whether it is possible to insulate foreign policy from the na tion's domestic difficulties "is the question that torments me." presi get together, so -that when I go home I can start' a new life and been in prison I have been doing dential adviser Henry Kissinger acknowledged in a recently published magazine jn1 jU'J 10 fljOVJ i i parole in the spring..