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E2 THE SUNDAY Our peripatetic congressmen By JANET STAIHAR Washington api Nearly a quarter of Ihc members of Congress are visiting such diverse places as iIil1 South Pule and an African village in thai tradillonal year end exercise known as fact finding. More than 100 members of the House and 23 senators either have hil the road or plan to do so before Congress resumes enacting laws in earnesl Jan. 2S, tvben the second lialf nf the 95th Session begins Meanwhile, scores of lawmakers remain behind to work nut compromises on unresolved issues such as the Carter ad minis I ration's energy rinierani aail federal funding of Hburlions For poor women LIFE AND WORK, on Capital Hill can be lonely these days. Some members of the various conference committees are making no attempt to conceal the feeling they're being kept after school. The chief aide to one House member locked into a dull coherence committee debate on sewage grants remarked.

'He not having: any fun and he's making lives miserable." The overseas trips, daring which members of Congress may combine husiness ivith pleasure, are for the most part paid for hy the taxpayers. These federally financed sojourns lo Ihe more, exotic places on the globe are ahjveboard, however, shire their appropriations W'erc uulhurued by elected representatives of the praple. But when lawmakers lake their spouses and children with them on the congres sionally authorized trips, they must pay the addilional expenses themselves. Members pay lor a faet lirtding trip abroad when no congressional committee ur agency uf government, such an. Ihc State Department, sponsors die visit.

In most cases, the lawmaker involved feels a trip is important to serve his district or aid bis mirk in Congress. Rep. Richard Krlly, planning to leave this week with a group of citrus growers to. luok at agricultural proriccts in Cuba, may be picking up hl3 own tab. A spokesman for Kplly said the congressman is ready to pay his expenses if the Agriculture Committee, of which he is a member, doesn't furnish ihc money.

However, wurk related overseas trips which members pay for themselves: are viewed as more or nn exception than Lite rule. SOMETIMES THESE junkets can get in the way of apparently mare pressing business In Washington. For example, a globetrotting congressman is delay iog final action on major legislation aimed al shoring up the financially depleted Social Security system. Hep. William M.

Ketcliem. wanted go on a trip during Hie Tlianksgiving recess. He also wanted to he on the Social Security conference committee, so he blocked unanimous coosent that conferees he named during the recess. He dten took 01 with the House Armed Ser vices Committee of which he; nnt a member to look at 'the minus ry situation in Middle East and Africa. A committee spokesman said House members not on the committee are allowed to grt "on a space available bat is." "Panama is one of die most traveled to places for senators who are trying lo decide how to vote on ratulca liqri ot the Panama Canal treaty, The Middle East and (jfha are key stop off points lor House members.

Members of Congress make Hie Irip in clusters, in pairs or And some trips lum oul betlei than others. n. William Scoll, for example, has been taking 'Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India lo study "military and nofilical affairs." Sralt, 62, has announced he won'tseek a second lerrn, The U.S. embassy provided Scott with a chiuf feured car In see the Taj Mahal. iriep Joseph P.

Addabbo, N.Y was disappointed with the weather during his trip to liermuda In inspect new customs facilities at liie alr pojrl. "It rained, "the cong re sinao said, adding that the sun cajnc oul only as he left, Jlere are some of the fact tirSfing trips authored by Congress: Fifteen House members SUN, LOWELL, headed by Hep. Jim Wright, on a 12 day tuur nf the Middle East, Spain and Portugal to talk with foreign leaders. The 16 member Congressional lilacs Caucus is scheduling a six day Irip lo Cubs, Haiti and Jamaica In mid December. Among other things, they want to explore with Cuban leaders that Ration's involvement In South Africa.

THE SOUTH POLE is the destination of Heps. Tom Harkin, Icwa, and John Bieaux, both members of the House Science and Technology Committee. They will be studying federally Itinded research projects for two weeks. Reps. Don Banker, and Paul E.

Tsnngas, plan a Sta.ie Department sponsored trip to Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. Tsongas will visit an African village where he served as a peaee eorpsman. The House Banking Com 1 niittee is planning a trip to Cuba, Chile, Columbia, Argentina and possibly Braiil next month, according lo an aide to Rep Charles E. Rrassley, Grassley hasn't decided whether to go. A group of la from a House Appropriations subcommittee is preparing for a Lteeember trip to Moscow to plan new U.S.

embassy, to Germany and France to study nuclear breeder reactor programs, and to North Africa to inspect various pro Jeets. Members of a House Merchant Marine and Fisheries subcommittee plan hearings in mid December in the Virgin Islands on how to prevent oil pollution of Carih bean waters. Reps, Charles Hose, N.C.. and Richard Nolan, of the House Agriculture Committee, arc tn attend international trade lalks In Switzerland for three days this monlh. Rep.

Stephen J. Solarz. N.Y a member of an international relations panel, is on a two week trip lo Yugoslavia, Belgium, Rumania. Italy and Hungary. An aide said Solurz is study ing the Yugoslavian regime and is talking lo leaders of neighbor ing nations.

Three members of the House Government Operations Commitlee had a one week (rip lo London and Paris to study U.S. embassy opera lions nnd NATO military readiness. They look a side trip to Germany to inspect top NATO communications. Sett. James A.

McClure, Idaho, plans a trip to Japan, lie also plans, with the rest of the Idaho congressional delegation, a journey to Libya to discuss agricultural sales. Sens. Cranston, Charles McC. Mathias. Jld.

and James Ahourezk, S.D., are destined for China in Jandary. Sen. Birch Bayh.D Is going lo Israel as a member or Ihe Appropriations Cnm mlttec. Sen. Robert Dole.

il KaiL, is overseas fulfilling his role as a U.S. delegate to the Belgrade Conference on Security and Conporaiion in Europe. SEN. JAKE GARN. lltab, is weighing an inviUt (ion from Senate Minority Leader Howard H.

Baker Jr. of Tennessee to go on a Slate Department trip In Berlin, Ihe Middle East, Portugal and Spain. Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Uyrd. W.Va., Is also scheduled to lake the tour.

Sen. Mike Gravel, Alaska, will go to Tokyo for a maritime conference, then will depart Tnr South America next month for the Environment and Public Works Com mittee. Son. Gary Hart, tentatively plans to go to England next month for a aefense spending conference, Ihcn to Geneva for five days of SALT talks 03 a congressional adviser, An aide to Sen. John H.

Chafec, H.I., said the senator may go Panama and Europe on a Slale Department trip, bul plans have not been yet firmed up. Sen. Clairborne Pell, R.I., IcflSunday for Belgrade. Yugoslavia, as a U.S. delegate to the Helsinki Accord.

He will alsu observe Ihc SALT bilks In Geneva as a congressional adviser. NOV 27, 1977 LfafBrLiiiiaM EJy jr Tflcft'n "Jumping too all fired purty to shoot." Soviet spy ships are seagoing scavengers By EDW IN SMITH LONDON UPll Commanders of (he NATO navies are so used lo being shadowed hy Soviet Intelligence gathering ships that they reckon the Russians are just going through Ihe motiuns until something gees wrong. Then there is a chance lor an Intelligence coup. The Soviets move in quickly lo pick up whatever prizes of wreckage or informatiun they can from the waters. TUAT PATTERN WAS confirmed during NATO sea exercises in the past two years.

During Teamwork '70, Ihe huge land, sea and air exercise in September thatyear, Russian ships concentrated their attention on die FI4 Tomcat Tighter which rolled from the deck of the U.S. air crafl carrier John F. Kennedy and sank in fret of water off Scotland, This year, in October, during exercise Ocean Salori, the focus of Soviet attention was a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter crammed Willi anti submarioe gear which ditched in the Bay of Biscay. In each ease the Soviets sought to recover wreckage lo assist their evaluation of NATO missile and nnli subniarlne defenses. They were thwarted the first time by bad weather and a hustily mounled U.S.

salvage operation; the second time by 2'i milts ocean deep, The ships the Hussians use for this purpose are specially designed anri built. Hulls are based on the design nf Ihe large lish factory ships which process the catches of Soviet trawlers, bul Uiese vessels are crammed with radio and electronic deterlinn equipment. Some are belibved to carry computers for instant analysis of Ihe Jala they pick up. In an exercise like Ocean Safari, Ihey plot the movement of Ihe ships and the pattern of anti submarine maneuvers and intercept as much radio traffic as possible as they shadow the NATO fleets. IT HAS BEEN going on Tor years and U.S.

Vice Adm. Wesley McDonald, w'ho rlES rz helicopters and a frigate were rescuing the crew, the Soviet ship scanned the waves for wreckage. But the Sea King sack within two minutes and (he Atlantic is 2fi miles deep at that point. A year hefore, when the FM over the side of the Kennedy, the slakes had been considerably higher, The plane carried claburatc electronics counter measures equipment to allow it to fight its way past Soviet anti aircraft defenses plus the jupersecret Phoenix guided missile system. The Russian spy slips were close enough to see the F14 go over the side and mark the Sp0l precisely.

U.S. Navy chiefs were afraid the Savlels might attempt In salvage it from the ocean bottom 1,900 feet down, the NAVY'S OWN efforts lo locate and recover ihe piano and its mlislle were at first defeated by choppy seas aml by currents which shifted Ihe plane Ihree miles from lis original locution, After a tense two mondis with Soviet ships lurking In the background, a research submarine eventually recovered the 13 foot missile with a grappling hook and civilian deep sea divers got lines around the plane so it could be winched to die So.v'WrfePTSbii? i 'whdii DOWNTOWN LOWELL F.P. Lift Load Depot MO" Radio Steel Wagon 80 S5M icing Donald ne allies Circus Waikie Talkie Set commands the NATO Striking F'nrce, Atlantic, says he minus me Hussians are starting to lose interest. "So far in this exercise." McDonald (old reporters halfway through Ocean Safari, "there's heen less I Soviet interest! that we hnve seen than in previous eser rises. We've seen this coming down over Hie past several years.

There has heen a decrease nf Soviet interest In scheduled exercises." But the netl day there was something lo whet Ihe Hue sians' appetites. A Royal Navy Sea King helicopter skimming 40 feel above Ihc waves lo a sonar search ran into trouble and had lo dllch in Ihe Atlantic. The suphislicaled anil submarine sonar and radar aboard the Sea King would have made a nice intelligence catch foi the Soviels. The helicopter was hi the sea before the four men crew could got a Mayday call on Hie radio, but a Russian In telligenee ship which had been trail ing the Royal Navy carrier HMA Hermes obvious ly guessed what had happtned from other radio Irafflc. ft quickly moved up from its shadowing position III miles behind tlii: Hermes to the spot where the helicopter had ditched.

While Royal Navy I 50 oil lile Brite Match Box Lego Police 7 Super Heroes Carriage Pocket Radio s8" ROGERS TOY 150MIDDLISTRHT TT Cars 55c Station $2" s6n" '23' Deluxe Skate Ml" FREE PARKING NEW DOWNTOWN LOWELL Washington's open tilt toward the By JACK ANBBRS0N WASHINGTON 11 has been 10 days since the shall of Iran concluded his spectacular Washington visit. He left behind a ballleground of Sitter that cost $20,000 lo clean and military request that wilt cost neariy S3 million lo fill. He alsolefi behind twoqulel invesllgalions ooe by the Justice Department, Ihe other by a Senaje Foreign Relations subcommittee. The shah's supporters wer flown by the planeloads into Washington where they were furnished hotel accommodations and pocket money. The investigators want to know whether the mysterious benefactors violaled federal law by failing to register as foreien agents.

It might be mora Instructive, however, if the Investigators could determine the source of Ihe shah's remarkable influence In Washington. No other sovereign customer has wangled so much military equipment out of the United State Now he has asked the Pentagon to bolster his military forces with additional jet fighters, radar planes, military transport planes and patrol boats. All this has antagonised neighboring Saudi Arabia, whole oil has become tssen lial to the well being of all Americans. Yet Washington invariably has favored the shah over Ihe more indispensable, more reliable Saudis. What is all the more amajing, he has succeeded without the Court reform's future (Continued from Page 1) their own, with the seven member SJC settling on one From the 21 names.

meeting judges in Massachusetts would be a radical departure from custom. Dukakis and i'rof. Cox fear il would politicize the dispensing or justice. They nppnse il stoutly. THE MASS.

League of Women Voters, among utb lobbying groups, has been pressing from the sidelines for a resolution of the differences and progress In this session. It may be, however, thai no amount of public pressure can override the cinshs that have characterized court reform in the legislature. Missing su far from Ibe dehale lias been much reference In Ihe varying quality of justice dispensed by the roughly 243 sitting judges. Within the legal profession there exists an informal perception of who's a fair judge and who isn't which judges are predisposed against certain types of litigants, and which judge; are rduclanl to make cootroverslal decisions. Aslulc lawyers frequently time their caaes until they get a presiding Judge they think will al least be prepared to look responsibly at Ihc issues.

Some judges have reportedly quietly GEMARDE JEWELERS 3 Diamond Merchants 3 WILL BE OPEN SUNDAY i 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 3 YOU DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE TO NEW HAMPSHIRE SAVE: TIME GAS DOLLARS FREE PARKING NO TRAFFIC PROBLEMS I 33 reman Will Be OPIN EVIRY SUNDAY Until Christmas 3 FOR YOUR SHOPPING CONVENIENCE 3 Watch for Our Sunday Specials park jn Mirhtt 101 Central backstage backing of an ethnic pressure group such as support Israel or and "Iran Lobby" such as promotes Nationalist China. We have conducted an investigation, for example, of Ihe strange relationship between the shah and ex CIA chief Richard Helms, ft began in Switzerland where die shah and Helms otler.ded LeRosey preparatory school The shah was Ihem a weak, whining prince bullied by a cruel, domineering lather; Helms was a thin blooded, elegant mannered son of aristocrats. During World War II, Ihe elder shah demonstrated an unfortunate preference for the Nazis.

The allies duly deposed him and deposited his 21 year old son on the throne. Helms, meanwhile, became a lop official uf Ihe CIA, which in 19M arranged a coup against Iranian Premier' Mohommed Mossadegh and saved the young shah's ihrone. The handsome Helms belonged to the sophisticated, old school crowd which ran Ihe CIA He hecamc the CIA director about the time that a colleague. Joseph became U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, farland was short and solid, with a deep voice, graying hair and a square jaw.

He dressed precisely and projected the image of the FBI agent he once was. 'At Islamabad, Farland met almost dally wiih Gen. Yahya Khan, then die military dictator. Through him, Farland helped Henry Kissinger through die bamboo curtain Everything in Stock OFF (excludes sole items) DIAMOND RINGS OFF EARRINGS PENDANTS ENTIRE STOCK OF LONGINE OFF WHITTNAUER JUBILEE WATCHES jS cie SL Pirklnj Lot wi in lotitid Shah and nmvkted a cover (or Kis singer's secret, historic visit to Peking. After Yahya's government collapsed.

Farland was assigned as a rewaid to be ambassador lo Iran He had scarcely settled down at his new post when Hel ms sudden ly found himself In need or a refuse rrom plying Senate investigators. It isn't everyone who will accept a CIA chief as an ambassador. Bul Ihe shah was glad lo welcome his former schoolmate and CIA bencfaclor. Witnesses have lold us thai Farland was "greatly "grief stricken" at being removed and replaced by Helms. His abrupt departure was so "emotional," according to our sources, lhat he was moved to tears.

Once installed in Iran, Reims behaved as il he were representing the shah, rather than Ihe American people. The U.S. embassy in Tehran hegan funelinning virtually as a branch office of Ihe Iranian government. In 1973, fur example, the shah was preparing for a trip to the United Slates. He hlnled to Helms (hat he did not wish lo be dogged by demonstrators wearing masks and waving signs.

Helms dutifully fired off a classified cahle to the Stale Department relaying the shnhs suggestion "that we tidy up as much as possible Ihe anti shah elements hi U.ti." heen assigned motions duly for prolonged periods because they can'L handle more con Iroverslal riuff. PRESUMABLY these are significant Internal matters Uie Chief Administrative Justice and his staff will tackle when installed. Resides structural changes in the court system, there are these personnel changes that may expedite justice and make ils dispensing far more evenhanded amd consistent. WHAT THE House as a body will do remains unpredictable. What the House judiciary committee members do in leacue with the Ways and Means enmmittee is equally uncertain.

The real showdown will come in the conference committee between the two branches. Home skepiics believe Ihe issue may get so bogged dowo there lo personalities aod reputations that il will have to be pul over lill next year. "If it gues down the drain," remarked a sombre Sen. Pres. Harrington last week as debate began in the Senate, in part because of his initiative, it will be because of dilatory action elsewhere." the corner Street Downtown Lowell.