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The Boston Globe Thursday, October 5, 1972 J9 POLITICAL CIRCUIT By FRED PILLSBURY Two FDR sons tell why- UMass-Boston I'm for Nixon Pin for McGovern -plenty to say Patrick F. McDonough is usually one of the Boston City Council's quieter members. Though not exactly a reticent type, during a meeting or hearing he is more apt to comment than declaim and crack a joke rather than mount a personal attack. On Tuesday, however, he leaped out of character for a while during a hearing on the impact of the huge new UMass-Boston plant in the South Boston-Dorchester area. Kis fellow councilman, John J.

Moakley, who heads special Council committee on the problem, was using it as a "campaign vehicle," McDonough said. (Moakley, of course, is running as an independent against Cong. Louise Day Hicks for the Ninth Congressional seat.) McDonough found the line of questioning "irrelevant" and a "lot of bull." He wound up storming out of the meeting. McDonough probably was right on his first count, anyway. It is pretty obvious that Moakley is using the issue to dramatize his own candidacy, but isn't this a legitimate political tactic? The changes that UMass-Boston will bring to the area will be enormous.

It is something that politicians, of all people, should be talking about and looking into. So far, though construction is well along and 5000 students, plus faculty and service personnel, are expected to descend on the Columbia Point site next fall, few By Franklin Roosevelt Jr. POUGHQUAG, N.Y. On Nov. 7, I will vote for George McGovern for President, Sargent Shriver for Vice President and for the entire Democratic ticket, even though some well-known Democrats, whose political careers have been made possible through their affiliation and membership in the Domocratic Party, have decided they'd rather switch than fight.

On Labor Day, President Nixon emphasized his belief in "the work ethic." Everybody believes ii the work ethic if there are jobs to be had, but Mr. Nixon is the last man who should be invoking the work ethic against George McGovern. It is Mr. Nixon, who, on Jan. 20, 1969, inherited an unemployment rate of approximately 3.2 percent, proceeded for the next two-and-a-half years to fight inflation by deliberately pursuing a policy of increasing unemployment to a 6 percent, rate.

Even after Mr. Nixon completely reversed his domestic and international economic policy, because of its proven disaster, the unemployment rate stands at 5-6 percent. The work ethic doesn't mean much to the nearly five million men and women who cannot find jobs. The Nixon Administration would be satisfied with an unemployment rate of just under 5 percent. We Democrats believe that our goal should be le'ss than 4 percent unemployment.

This pragmatic difference means about one million jobs, especially in minority groups, unskilled workers and young people. The 1 percent difference between the Republican and the Democratic candidates also menns about $35 billion of gross national product. This in turn has a major effect on the tax revenues on the Federal, state and local handling of the Middle East problems have lessened tensions and given aid to Israel, our best ally in that area. Contrast this with the McGovern statement that he would give up American naval bases in Greece because we don't like their nondemo-cratic Greek Government. Is that enough reason to give the Russians complete control of the Eastern Mediterranean and expose Israel to indefensible pressures from hostile naval forces? The Nixon handling of the Vietnam war is more open to contention.

On one hand he has withdrawn American ground forces from the combat area in an orderly and rapid program. He has offered a peace plan, more than just and fair, and received from the other side no response showing real desire for a cease-fire by the dictatorship of North Vietnam. On the other hand, the continued bombing and the precise manner of its renewal are certainly open to criticism from a moral standpoint. What does the President's opponent offer? An abject pull-out of all United States forces after which he would go to Hanoi to "beg" for the release of our prisoners of war. This would save a few American lives.

Not exactly a glorious chapter for American history. On the domestic side, the issues are even more clearly drawn. In four years the Nixon Administration has halved the rate of inflation; there has been no increase in unemployment but more people have jobs; business activity is increasing; Social Security benefits have been in-crpased substantially: a good start been made on reducing the chaos of the welfare problem. Contrast this with the almost unbelievable inconsistency of McGov-ern's position on taxes and welfare: Four differing solutions on welfare and taxes since 1970 forced by the exposure of faulty mathematics and the patently unsound basis behind i hem. To be President a man must have achieved, a certain toughness of spirit and soul.

It usually comes from some searing incident, personal or political. For my father it was a nearly fatal illness, for Mr. Nixon it was his despair after losing to Edmund Brown for Governor of California in 1952. Men of sufficient limber to be President recover. It took Mr.

Nixon six years of dogged In Sen. McGovern I hear the cru- level. The loss of these revenue's seriously hampers our efforts to solve the problems of our schools, mass transit, housing and drug addiction. In the last two years, Mr. Nixon has suddenly discovered the political advantages of strong support for the security of the State of Israel, for which he is to be commended.

But I recall the old Nixon who, during the Suez crisis of 1956, strongly and publicly supported Henry Cabot Lodge, then our United Nations Ambassador, and the Arab diplomats who were demanding that Israel evacuate, without safeguards and guarantees of safe passage, the Sinai Peninsula and Sharm el Sheik at the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. Mr. McGovern has frankly stated his support of the security of the State of Israel and has put it on record that, as President, he would take no action to reduce our military strength in the eastern Mediterranean or, for that matter, in any other part of the world which might jeopardize his full commitment to the security of Israel and our other international commitments. On the issue of the war in Vietnam, 20,000 American boys have died needlessly since Mr. Nixon assumed office.

His secret plan for peace on the basis of which he won in 1968 remains a secret. He has substituted our bombs for our combat manpower. Our bombing of both North and South Vietnam is on a scale never before reached in the history of mankind. We are destroying both countries and their peoples, and our prisoners of war continue to languish in camps in North Vietnam. Mr.

McGovern, with the full weight of public opinion behind him, urges the end of the bombing and the killing and the return of our prisoners of war. He does not consider the continuation of President Thieu in office to be vita to the future of the people of South Vietnam, and he believes that an equitable negotiated political settlement can be achieved when the killing stops. In 1956, my mother wrote her old friend, Lord Elibank, "I doubt if the country stand Nixon as President." I shared her sentiments then, and I strongly feel them today. Franklin D. Roosevelt the resident's son, served as Under Secretary of Commerce and as a Democratic Congressman from Xezv York.

By James Roosevelt BEVERLY HILLS, Calif How can One who believed in the principles and leadership of the Democratic Party under Franklin D. Roosevelt support Richard Nixon for re-election as President of the United States? First, as Rexford G. Tugwell, an early New Dealer, has pointed out, there is no fair comparison between the issues facing Nixon-McGovern in 1972 and those faced in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1936 Roosevelt won reelection on the record of his efforts to improve the economic situation of the country, although it was only a partial recovery. His opponent that year tried the scare tactics being used by McGovern today.

We are told Nixon is all evil and only the Democratic ticket has the answers just as, in 1936, Roosevelt was a "faker" and imposed an about-to-be-bankrupt Social Security system on the country. He had recognized the Communist Russian government in a manner more reminiscent of the Moscow-Peking trips of President Nixon than of McGovern isolationism. Roosevelt tried to stack the Supreme Court and finally won control for his nominees just as Nixon will probably win control for his. That is part of the system and we go on. The real differences are that in 1932 the majority of Americans, rich and poor, were close to despair.

They, the majority, welcomed "radical" changes. McGovern thinks the majority is in despair today and offers a bewildering series of panaceas. We Democrats for Nixon think that the country made progress in the 1960s and has continued to under four years of a Nixon presidency and a Democratic Congress. We see no need for despair today to justify altering our basic course. We advocate the re-election of President Nixon and the election of a Democratic Congress.

Forward Progress but not a New Highway is our slogan. We believe the powers and opportunities of the office of President are so vast that the country should not deny a second term to a President unless the alternative choice is clearly better or that the incumbent has failed in his leadership. President Nixon has opened doors and initiated new sources of trade, disarmament and avenues for the peaceful solution of some of the world's most pressing problems by his courageous visits to Peking and Moscow. His JOHN J. MOAKLEY dramatizing Patrick Mcdonough queried questions decisions have been made as to how to handle the situation (ultimately there will be 20,000 students).

A special committee of mayoral aides, Boston Redevelopment Authority staffers, and others has been fr- eovcri months nn a report to give to the sading voice, but I see the same inept changing, the inability to break away from poor advisers and from those to whom he has given control of his campaign. To some, power for the so-called New Democrats is more important than the best interests of the country. We need change but the whole system is not ready for the junkyard. James Roosevelt, the President's son, served as US representative to and as a Democratic congressman from California. of al- mavor.

However, they have not gotten to the point icAnccinff it with community croups in the area, though they expect to do so before they are through. Their main desire, naturally, is to make sure that UMass-Boston has a positive, rather than a negative effect locally and on the city. While it is natural to assume that a big, new educational complex cannot help but benefit the community, that just is not the case, unless special plans are made and adhered to. One of the primary problems is the effect UMass will have in local real estate. This is intended to be a commuter college, but it is only natural, as one of the mayor's planners pointed out, for some ol the students i in livP in the area.

When PILLS FOR EVERYTHING By Dalil ART BUCHWALD (V NEW PILL IS SAtDTO CURE A POOR MEMORY, (newhem) perhaps a gooa many, today's students band together, four to a room, WELL.TLLSE they Per- III i nstr mnrp than tne avtmtc can rilll'iu i The smile on the face of rent control couid keep mat uir, rf r-r 1 haps si net u1 NO, IM MR- APPISON APPLE SATE OF APPAL005.A JSL MR'APIMSON SIMMS OF SEATTLE, I Believe i There is, also, the problem of who will attend the new university branch. That will depend to a considerable degree on the new chancellor who has not yet been chosen. Will he set up an excellence-at-all-costs inst.tu.ion. or will he enu-i w.e acceptance of students from the city who are not quite pi epaied academically as well as eronom-cally, for Harvard oi MIT? Perhaps the greatest effect on the city as a whole, as well as the immediate neighborhood, will come from the impact on transportation. Will the university have some rules about cars? There are plans to have MBTA buses shuttling to and from the campus, but how wxll the traffic be handled when UMass reaches its capacity? The university's next-door neighbor, the Columbia Point Housing Project, one of the best examples the country of how not to plan, run and maintain public housing, might be helped by UMass.

However, the situation there could be made worse if UMass does not include its people and its facilities in its plans, or if it allows its own students and personnel to move in on a hit-or-miss basis. There is plenty in the UMass-Boston problem for all to debate, including Councilmen McDonough and Moakley. It might even help to make it a campaign issue. Fred Pillsburv is a Globe City Hall reporter. IPUTTHOSEplLLS DAVID FARRELL As everyone knows, Henry Kissinger has an overwhelming effect on America's foreign policy.

But what wasn't recognized unti recently is that he also seems to be responsible for the health of the stock market. A broker friend on Wall Street named Jeckel told me, "It's now a Kissinger Market. The prices of stocks go up and down and depending on how Wall Street reads Kissinger." "How is that?" "Remember last week the market was down? Then Kissinger flew to Paris to meet the North Vietnamese. The market went up. He was supposed to stay for 24 hours.

When he extended the stay the market went up again. When he came back he was smiling at the airport; the. market went up. "Then he was photographed a day later walking out of the White House frowning. Immediately the market went down." "You mean the brokers are now buying and selling depending on Kissinger's mood?" "Right.

We no longer watch the ticker tape. We all stay glued to the TV hoping to get a glimpse of Henry." One of Jeckel's partners came over to the desk. He was carrying a newspaper, "What do you make of this?" Jeckel looked at a photograph on the front page. It was a picture of Henry with a beautiful blonde attending a concert- "He looks pretty happy," Jeckel said. "I think we ought to advise our clients to buy." "But, wait a minute." the partner said.

"Is he happy because he's with the blonde, or is he happy because he's got a peace deal cooking with Hanoi?" Jeckel picked up the magnifying glass and studied the photograph. "It's the same grin he used when he got off the plane from Pans. I think it's a peace grin." The partner turned to me. "You know Kissinger. Does he look like he got something out of his Paris trip, or does he look like he's just looking forward to a nice evening?" I borrowed the magnifying glass.

"It's hard to say. I've seen Kissinger grinning like that when he came back from Paris empty-handed. Sometimes he hates to show his feelings. At the same time he may have made some progress with the North Vietnamese, and none with the blonde." One of the security analysts came rushing in. "Have you seen the afternoon editions? Here's a picture of Kissinger with Nixon!" The two brokers grabbed the paper.

"Oh, my God, Henry's frowning," Jeckel said, "But Nixon is grinning," the partner said- "How do you read that?" I studied the picture. "The way I read it, Kissinger get a deal in Paris and he had no luck with the' blonde, either. Nixon probably thinks the second part of thai is very funny." Jeckel picked up his phone and shouted into it: "SELL, SELL, SELL!" Art Buchwald is a syndicated columnist. Surviving Killeen ready to quit gambling against the so successful top echelon. come a one-way ticket to jail.

Thus the decision by the leaders of organized crime in Boston to get out of gambling and concentrate on other areas, including money lending. Loan-sharking is still widespread as the slaying of Paul Folino indicates. He was one of the principals in the Boston loan sharking trade, borrowing big money from the mob at one percent per week and recycling it at five percent. He disappeared a month ago and wasn't seen again until his remains turned up in a shallow grave in Box-ford a week ago. has been trying to get a foothold in other parts of Boston, according to investigators.

They say he is trying to fill the vacuum created when the leaders of the rackets in Greater Boston decided to pull out of the gambling business entirely. A major struggle is underway by smaller gambling operators who are hoping to put together the broken pieces left by the Justice Department's all-out drive against illegal gambling. But it is doubtful that they will have much success since the Federal Organized Crime Strike Force will use the same tactics on them that were cords and then take them before the Federal grand jury which has been sitting continually in recent months. The new Federal statute provides immunity for the errand boys if they cooperate. And, conversely, it allows contempt proceedings and immediate jailing if they refuse to accept the immunity proviso offered.

Several runners are now in Charles St. Jail and other prisons for contempt. They don't want to turn in their bosses. As a result their bosses have been having great difficulty in recruiting new prospects because the pay isn't that good and the job has be the underworld came last week when Kenneth notified bookmaking interests in the Greater Boston area that he would be out of action as of Sept. 29.

He stipulated that he would cover no more business after that day. Federal agents and investigators from Dist. Atty. Garrett H. Byrne's office think that Howie Winter of Somerville may try to move into the void created by the forced retirement of 'he KUJeens from South operations.

Winter, one-time associate of hired gun James (Buddy) McLean, who was murdered in gangland fashion a few years ago, Kenneth Killeen, brother of slain bookie Donald Killeen, has sent out word that he wants out of the gambling business. He was the heir apparent to his brother's gambling empire which covered much of South Boston. However the recent shotgun attack on him at his Marine road home apparently was the deciding factor in his decision to leave the rackets to others. The gun blasts also convinced him of the futility otf continuing any run- ng battle with the gang which is believed responsible for the murder last May of his brother outside the latter's Framingham home. The Killeen break with The Federal men have been aided tremendously by the anti-racketeering law of 1970 which permits extensive use of wiretapping and has an immunity feature which has been decisive in its effect on underworld leaders.

The "runners" who carry the tally sheets and other records to and from th racketeers in Boston and their offices in Chelsea an-' Revere, h've been "'ked off on a regular b- cis by the Federal agents. The offices are kept under surveillance and the probers, armed with search warrants, arrest the runners with the slips and re Globe David Farrell is a political columnist..