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Tuesday June 1974 Page 9B Commercial avortism The Eagle Bryan College Station By editorials Mills Cites 7v SUNNY AND WARMER IBurger Date with Destiny Give It Alljor Readers By Jack Anderson By Sydney Harris vestigation Letters To The Editor his in Letters To The Editor I Have An Humble Pill Dick By Erma Bombeck to by be the 3 The obvious answer is that the Soviet Union desperately needs American economic credits and the lowering of American tariff barriers to Soviet goods such as they are That no doubt is the principal reason for yielding and there is reason both to cheer at the prospective victory of Senator Jackson and to weep that we permit foreign interference in domestic Soviet policies The louder the Soviets get in in sisting on a point the more but the Metroliner The eminent chief justice wrote an indignant letter to the secretary of transportation and put a stop to cigar smoking on the train ATER SEVERAL HIGH level phone calls and a trip to pick up the tickets personally I briefed my children in the hotel room before we left "Wc'rc being given special VIP treatment" 1 said coolly "now if Mrs Nixon should happen to THAT his con I INDEED WE ARE on the verge at this point of a few years of greatly lessened tension in the Mideast Russian Jewish emigration to Israel becomes less of a political problem and the Soviet Union can always come up with one of that looked like Woodstock after a rain "Poor I said to the boys "I wonder how long they've been waiting" We whipped through the gates and over to the guard where 1 flashed my VIP tickets In the majestic marble halls if the Supreme Court he willreside over the historic im passes between the courts the Congress and an or the high court has igreed to rule whether the (Vatergate grand jury had the authority to cite Presidentixon as an "unindicted co and whether Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski can subpoena some4 additional White House apes hour telecast to announce it I find room for it In my living room" Have a humble pill Dick Dick Cavett was recently underwhelmed with his award of an Emmy because it presented on the telecast The talk show host was quoted as saying "If you find white haired jurist with a drawn pistol If Burger the most brilliant jurist to preside over the Supreme Court he is one of the most pompous He annexed to his personal offices the conference room He installed a desk so there could be no mistaking that the lesser justices convened in his domain for their deliberations The Eagle welcomes and encourages letter's from readers They must be signed and contain the writer's address and telephone number but in special instances the names may be omitted from publication We will need the signed letter with the above information for verification purposes Shorter letters will receive quicker consideration and The Eagle reserves the right to edit letters for length good taste or legal reasons Dear Sir: Can you imagine a 3 day Can you picture our presently clean nice quiet conununity after 50000 people per day for 3 days eats sleep and does their 1 cannot understand why our community leaders investigate the outcome and aftermath of the first annual BECAUSE THESE associations Burger has been urged to disqualify himself from Watergate decisions and to hand over the impeachment gavel to the senior associate justice William 0 Douglas But the chief justice clearly intend to miss his hour his hour in the eye of history Here take one of mine There is probably something con tradictory about bragging about your humility but sir you are in the presence of the Master As a child 1 won a spelling bee When it was announced my name was misspelled It came out Steve Things never got better I come home from impasse a few observations: 1 The threat to veto the Senate rider is probably a gesture for the benefit of the Soviet Union arranged a sightseeing trip to Washington Because my column is syndicated 1 was told certain privileges were extended to the press notably the VIP tour of the White House "End of that line lady" he said motioning toward the crowd to in ODDLY ENOUGH this is not American or English as we might think but rench It was lirst said by King Diuis Xll of rance about his officious Chief Minister Cardinal Georges Aniboise who did so much by the way as a patron of artists and writers that he is regarded as the principal promoter of the Renaissance in rance) A reader in hingmont Colo: "Why are they called Blue Simply because the earliest A me i ca 1 i a nc es regulating public and private behavior in the 17th century Puritan colonies of New England were printed on blue paper instead of white to signify that the material dealt with was not or fit for public dissemination A reader in Coconut Grove Ha: "Is it historically true that Marie Antoninette on being informed that the poor jieople had no bread retorted "let them eat Willie Nelson 4th of July at Dripping Springs before railroading this fiasco over its people And worst of all our county judge its a principal backer and investor in this possible (even probably) festival of immorality My thanks to the Eagle a newspaper with enough for titude to stand up for the well being and safety of its com munity As the mother of three teenagers who will stay as far away as possible from that mess I feel it is my duty to call the attentions of fellow citizens of Bryan College Station to just what we can anticipate happening There are not enough law enforcement of ficials in the whole area to control50000 to 100000 people when they become suped up on dope and liquor This community must snap out of its apathy and get in volved We need judicial approval and incentive for illegality and immorality Very truly yours Mrs Virginia Gilmore 1312 Garden lane Bryan Texas 77801 THIS IS GOOD NEWS inevitably brings up delicate question: how can we tell that the Soviet Union will live up to its word? Usually we can tell that the Soviet Union will not live up to its word and that should always be the governing assumption The way to put it is: are there special circumstances here that suggest an extraordinary Soviet fidelity to their word? Soviet officials have them selves come forward with the observation that to harass Jewish petitioners for exit visas is "inconsistent with Soviet Well Soviet life is inconsistent with Soviet laws so what else is new But we see here an apparent Soviet its switcheroos for the purpose effort actually to permit the of saving face: some such egress of substantial Jewish numbers and we quite naturally wonder exactly why the beauty shop after four Wanting to impress my sons hours and my husband says with their nation's capital 1 Where have you been?" ole with the greatest gravitylready he has asked a former aw clerk to research im eachment precedents for him Burger has also sent for of congressional learings on executiveri vilege so he can bone up on he legal issues in the tapes ase He is undeterred by word special order of business for Wednesday The appropriation bill is like ly to take more than one day to handle Guillory's contention is that the basic purpose of the toll road measure is to equip the state with the legal mechanics to enter into a contract to re ceive federal money for the project However he agreed with several questioners that the cost has increased dramatically since the $343 million in bonds authorized by the legislature in 1970 He attributed the increase partly to a $125 million new link in Shreveport and partly to inflation He said 5lz miles of the 8 mile Shreveport link arc re quired to meet federal guide lines calling for any limited ac cess highway partly funded with federal money to tie in with the existing interstate system Guillory said his bill specifies that the shite would have to repay no more than $330 million of the $660 million in still less than its 1970 i anticipated and that the bonds would not be sold until there is a signed NO DETAIL IS TOO PETTY apparently to escape his at tention Once he took time out from the great decisions to order a non functioning clock returned to the Capitol His pet peeve is the balooning caseload of the high court To dramatize this he has assigned clerks and interns literally to count pages and produce useless statistics Even the pamphlet distributed to tourists has been revised to include a highlighted item on the heavy caseload Under Burger the court is becoming more bureaucratized and the in teraction of the nine justices is becoming less stimulating One veteran on the court misses the snappy organized motivated discussions which he says have been replaced by looser dragged out meetings where lack of preparation is evident come out and say 1 un derstand Mrs Bombeck is on the tour Where is I will come forward and look down at my shoes absolutely humiliated at being found out When we are singled out and asked into their personal living quarters don't fiddle with your noses or bilk with food in your mouths Understood? And remember we can't stay too long We must push on so we can get into the Senate Got it?" They nodded As the cab stopped at the White House (thank God he didn't use siren) I saw a mob Chief Justice Warren prosecutor to Kleindienst Burger his white mane handle the Watergate jompadourea and pomaded is preparing grandly for his datevith destiny his own He is so obsessed over the threat of violence that he drives with an armed chauf feur and uses court police as bodyguards A late caller at his home was startled greeted at the door We have spoken to several of the nine justices who say the decision will be left to Burger whether to withdraw from the messenger directing him to Watergate cases and the im peachment trial Within the last two weeks he has taken time out to dine alfresco in the court garden with his associates Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell But no associate justice is likely to suggest to face that I ONCE SAT IN Johnny g'reen room so long waiting to go on a maid picked me up dusted my legs and tried to empty me She thought 1 was an ash tray allowing the publication of my second book I received a gracious note from Mrs Hubert Humphrey ad dressed to "Edna" Some iieople have egos that are fed every three hour" Mine died two years ago following an incident in Washington Soviet policies towards minority emigration is nip and threatening to the whole program of detente for the NO THIS was ascribed to an unnamed by Rousseau in Book VI of his "Confessions" written several years before Marie Antoinette's arrival in rance STANDING AT THE END of the line which was two blocks into Virginia) my son asked "What do I say again if we're asked for lunch?" "Oh shut up!" I said Oh the things 1 do for my readers Like tracking down bits of information that are of no earthly use to anybody that be found in most reference works or just settle a foolish bet Like the following: A reader in Athens Ga: "Who first said 1 et George do line is mangent de la A reader in I Moines Iowa: "Is the Civil War ship the now being salvaged the only one of its name or does it stand for a whole class of It was merely the first of a whole class called which were ironclad with a Hat deck sharp stern and one or more movable turrets TTiev ere so named by the inventor Capt Ericsson because they were to be "severe monitors" to the leaders of the Rebel I orces A reader in Monterey Calif: "When was the slang word first used to mean a toilet?" water or "check ink He signs the daily instructions: "This is an or Not one to be trifled with Burger felt his dignity had been offended by a passenger who blew cigar smoke in his direction aboard the Washington New York statement as that no Soviet citizen who like it in Russia is welcome to stay have to test run that I guess in a small unobserved city to make sure that the streets emptied by midnight So we move forward a little bit and although all the theoretical exercises of Nixon and Kissinger are correct in fact we have thanks to Henry Jackson made a little genuine progress here Congratulations But apart from this there is probably a reason why the Soviet attitude towards Jewish emigration is softening and probably that is the lessening of pressure from the Arab states It is a constant refrain in the United nations that the Soviet Union plays double game On the one hand it makes expensively available to Syria and to Egypt and to others the weaponry to prosecute the holy war against Israel On the other hand it makes available to Israel the soldiers whose job it soon becomes to fight Soviet weaponry with Israel American weaponry That is the highest form of ex ploitation the Chinese delegate said last year with highest scorn: and the Soviet delegate had no ready answer The most intricate question With 78 co sponsors the bill is of how to bargain Jewish not likely to yield to emigration rights for presidential suasion on the American commercial matter of American favoritism approaches and the obligations to respect the parties involved are rights of other governments to bargaining hard They are: 1) write their own domestic the senators who are policies It is however of spokesmen for the 78 senators ficially the American position pledged to deny Russia Most that the Jackson avored Nation treatment Amendment by tying unless Russia permits economic detente to particular emigration of her Jews 2) the general lobbies in America galvanized to put pressure on the Nixon Administration to yield to the Senate: and 3) the Soviet Union Concerning the xadypntage of a select minority 2 iast beptemoer at rne United Nations oreign Minister Gromyko thundered out his deter mination on no account to did not having found the decisive weapon ask for more Asked say for greater freedom of information and for the William Rnrklpv they are relying on bombast right of Soviet citizens to join thp rpadipr thpv arp actuallv to fhair fnmilioc olcowtiorp in thp negotiate And this in fact world appears to be happening irst it was the old one step back I ward: decreasing the quota of Jews allowed to emigrate to 1 make the Americans anxious Then suddenly the promise presumably tran smitted by Gromyko to Kissinger that the quota will 1 be lifted to 45000 Jews per year 10000 more than were allowed to leave in 1973 A a VHi WlHIUldtt llUlil HIV Vatergate cases because of his hardsn views they say are msuce ueparunenij wqtk on lational security issues and his lose association with the Vatergate figures Louisiana Senate Balks At Bonds BATON ROUGE la (AP) or the second time in two weeks the lauisiana Senate has balked at authorizing $660 million in bonds for a north south toll road Sen Robert Guillory of Eu nice brought his bill up last week but quickly returned it to the calendar when some sena tors questioned escalating costs of the originally estimated at $343 million When he tried again Monday the opposition was even fiercer and Guilloryagreed to postpone action on it again His latest retreat came in the face of an attempt by Sen Carl Bauer to add an amendment requiring that US 90 between New Orleans and Ifayette be four laned before work begins on the toll road Waiting in the wings was a similar amendment by Sen Sammy Nunez of Chalmette to place hurricane evacuation routes ahead of the toll road in priority There was no indication whether Guillory would recall the bill for a third try when the Senate gets down to business again late this afternoon If he does not it may be sev eral days before the toll road is taken up again since the Senate agreement with the federal has agreed to make the state's government to get the federal general appropriations bill the money IN 1735 Harvard regulation said "No reshman shall go into the Cousin meaning the public toilet for males Evidently the "Cousin" was dropped as time went on A reader in Princeton NJ: "How did a circular etition come to be known as a 'round The crew of the brig at Gibraltar in 1612 was discontented but knew the captain would hang to the yardarm the first dissenter so decided to append their names in a circular manner to a letition The statuette of a robin on a circular base was close at hand and they used this to trace a circle which formed a guide for writing the signatures around it This device to protect individual petitioners became known as a "round lenti president of the Motion Picture Association But in New York Peter ishbein lawyer for the Na tional Association of Theater Owners said a long spectrum from Knowl to a stag movie and we are disappointed that the court clarified standards for the erea in William Rehnquist speaking for the court wrote Constitution does not require that juries be instructed in state obscenity cases to apply the standards of a hypothetical statewide In addition to abandoning the test the court said last June that only works dealing with offensive hard core sexual con should be subject to prosecution Rehnyuist said this did not mean juries have un bridled discretion in determin ing what is patently He said for instance "could not as a matter of constitutional law be found to depict sexual conduct in a patently offensive The four justices who dis sented in the case involving the illustrated obscenity report are William Douglas William Brennan Potter Stewart and Thurgood Marshall Although these four joined the other five justices in rever sing the "Carnal decision they did so on differ ent grounds Brennan wrote that he be lieves the Constitution vir tually prohibits government attempting whollyg to suppress sexually oriented materials on the bases of their allegedly Audit Need The city government of Hearne has been rocked by scandal weakened by resignation and stifled by financial blindness rom the midst of this a suggestion by just resigned city manager Charles Mills comes as probably the smartest thing anyone has said from that corner recently feel a complete audit by an outside firm is in order If you cannot get one locally ask from one outside of town or go to the attomey general of the state and ask for one We really know where we Mills said after quitting The Eagle feels suggestion that the at torney office supervise an audit is ex cellent The firm which did last audit nine months ago and still presented it is Brewer 'CPA of Bryan Mills said Brewer is the man who audited the city books for the time periods when a $10000 discrepancy oc cured and an illegal $12000 check was written The discrepancy was brought to the attention of the city council by Brewer but the full report of it not made public yet The check was made public only after a conscientious bookkeeper Mae Beth Bishop lost her job telling about it The state conducted audit would be tough no holds barred and with no local interest getting in the way If city pride would be hurt to let the state do it then pride will have to suffer Getting the good name of Hearne restored and its financial nightmare straightened out are only fair to the people who live work and pay taxes there Anytime a city manager says really know where we then time for that citizens to look beyond its city limits to Austin for help After all people pay state taxes too I THE HOUSE later should mpeach President Nixon the landsome haughty Burger vill also preside over the Senate trial Those who know say he views his historic he disqUaiify himself Some colleagues describe him as a conscientious diligent decent chief Kleindienst who told us he had approached Burger for his recommendations on a special prosecutor praised tegrity BURGER HAS A similar onflict He not only was ap pointed by President Nixon but las been a Nixon man for more han 20 years During the private deliberations of the ine justices Burger in ariably champions the Nixon i iew on controversial cases 4 He has been known to switch 3 the majority side howeverhen it has become clear that he Nixon position revall Reason: Supreme 'ourt sources suggest that lurger doesn't want to appear i public to be a Nixon echo He has also had close per onal ties to the two embattled iw and order men John litchell and Richard Klein WIIU HCOUtU ustice Department before time in your two arid a half ley were hauled before tne ourts for allegedly violating te law themselves Burger ven recommended a special Obscene Rule Changes Again WASHINGTON (AP) The been upheld? said Jack Va Surreme Court which ruled last year that juries in obscen ity cases need not measure books and movies by national standards now says the stand ards need not be statewide ei ther Instead the court held in a 5 4 decision Monday a juror entitled to draw on his own knowledge of the views of the average person in the commu nity or vicinage from which he The court cautioned how ever that juries do not have "unbridled to determine what is obscene The court also handed down a pair of decisions involving prisoners It ruled 6 3 that states may ban them from voting after they have completed their sen tences as 27 states do And it held 5 4 that newsmen have no constitutional right to interview prisoners because they are not denied anything that it not also denied to the general public The split decision on obscenity upheld the conviction of three men and a woman in i Ix)s Angeles who proposed to distribute illustrated copies of the Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography Their conviction stemmed from the mailing of advertising prochures In another case the court unanimously reversed the con viction of an Albany Ga the ater owners for showing the prize winning film "Carnal Representatives of the movie industry were divided on the 1 significance of the decision 1 appears clear that the freedom of the filmmaker to tell an honest story without i hard core pornography has MOST AGREE Dtirrtat toVn 9 I A 1 A 1 I A az 1 0 hat Justice William Rehnquist geryative law and order line XguzvM 'I z'KiaT I ztzi iryijj niAUII lilt LI1ICI JUdUVC HE ALSO ORDERED a length of gold carpet rolled out for them to tread upon as they made their way through a rear hallway to take their seats behind the great mahogany Supreme Court bench Writer Nina Totenberg an alert court observer reports that Burger leaves imperious written instructions for his (VEH A 'X Wl I IP'" HJJLJ iBn I I.