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Washington Merry-Go-Round Junta foe became U.S.target WASHINGTON Now that the Greek dictatorship has collapsed, the story can be told how the White House and Justice Department connived to send a- Greek exile home to certain torture and possible death. The exile was newspaper editor Elias Demetracopoulos, who was driven from his homeland by the military junta in 1967. But the Greek colonels silence his typewriter. He obtained resident status in the United States and took up battle station in Washington, pounding away at the junta and its Greek-American supporters. I' The Nixon crowd in Washington zeroed in on him when he began firing volleys at Thomas Pappas, a millionaire with vast oil, soft-drink and chemical interests in Greece.

Pappas also happened to be a close friend and financial backer of President Nixon. So close was the Nixon-Pappas tie that the Watergate conspirators instinctively turned to the Greek tycoon for hush money, although he insists he never provided a penny for such purposes. On July 12, 1971, Demetracopoulos appeared before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and accused Pappas of helping to manipulate U.S. foreign policy in favor of the Greek dictatorship. Before the testimony could be printed, a Justice Department lawyer showed up at the subcommittee and asked for statement.

Those were the days, of course, when Atty. Gen. John Mitchell was riding high at the Justice Department. Demetracopoulos found out motive from Louise Gore, a friend with strong Republican credentials, who had encountered the attorney general at a Perle Mesta party. Ms.

Gore had been appointed by Nixon to be ambassador to UNESCO and expected she would need his support for a subsequent bid for the Maryland governorship. She had the courage, nevertheless, to alert Demetracopoulos. arning went to luncheon for Martha Mitchell wrote Ms. Gore, sat next to John (Mitchell). He is furious at you and your testimony against Pappas.

He kept threatening to have you (kept) asking me what I knew about you and why we were friends. It really got out of hand. It was all talk about during lunch and everyone at the table was The editor-in-exile received a more direct warning from President personal trouble-shooter, the late Murray Chotiner. As Demetracopoulos remembers it, Chotiner advised him to ease up on Pappas. can be in trouble.

You can be deported. not smart politics. You know Tom Pappas is a friend of the Ten days after the warning, the brave editor, undeterred, blasted Pappas again in a memo to the House subcommittee. The memo detailed relations ith both the junta and the Nixon Administration, accusing Pappas of profiting from both. Later, Demetracopoulos encountered Pappas at the San Souci restaurant, a favorite hangout for White House gourmets.

Demetracopoulos alleges that Pappas fumed at him, suggesting ho could get in trouble with the Wall Street investment firm which provided Demetracopoulos with a livelihood. Information Not lAng afterward, the FBI visited his Wall Street employer and made inquiries about the Greek exile. The FBI declined comment but Justice sources insist that, despite appearances, the FBI visit to Wall Street was not triggered by Mitchell and was to Pappas. The Greek secret police, the KYP, meanwhile began questioning former friends. The purpose, according to sources now able to speak about the junta days, was to get information to help the United States deport Demetracopoulos.

The Greek secret police allegedly told those they interviewed that they were helping out the which gave them financial support. By an interesting coincidence, Mitchell was on the governing 40 Committee at the time of the KYP inquiries. Before the embattled exile could be deported and turned over to the mercy of the junta, the Watergate scandal forced Mitchell out of politics and. in time, the Greek dictatorship fell. Now for the first time in eight years, Demetracopoulos is returning to his beloved Greece, not as a deportee facing torture but as a patriot.

Footnote: We were unable to reach Mitchell or Pappas for comment. Ms. Gore told us that, despite the risk to her political career, she would warn Demetracopoulos again if she had it to do over. Washington whirl ANTONIO Februory 12 1975 Page 15-A 'Just a temporary arms halt, oh, exalted one murderous good until I can convince Congress of your 6th grade, fourth time around SAN FRANCISCO Man, what is the opposite of I shouted to the kitchen: opposite of easy is a man doing sixth grade homework for the fourth I should put that in my biography. Education: times around the track on sixth grade It is a good biography.

Books then the titles. Two lines. About 300,000 sweated words kissed off in two lines of small type. The boy said: is the opposite I said. things that happen to your ever-loving (It turned out to be Ladies vs.

politicos Delaplane This Friday, the Bexar County Courthouse will be the site of a classic confrontation between the' Junior League and Commissioners Court. Those who think Junior Leaguers are just a bunch of- pretty college sorority sisters who never grew up should try to be there. They will see the commissioners face a group of lady activists who have traded their Howard Wolf dresses for jeans and their tennis shoes for hiking boots all in the interest of Bexar delinquent children. For two of the Junior Leaguers Mrs. Beaty McGrath and Mrs.

Patsy Beveridge the road to Commissioners Court began in the early 1970s when they signed on as volunteer aides at the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center. End If anyone ever writes a book about Bexar juvenile rehabilitation program, they will undoubtedly note the dates these two ladies began working at the center as the beginning of the end of sub-par care for the troubled children. In addition to taking the youngsters on field trips (picnics, hikes, ball games), the two women also started visiting the detention center (a renovated warehouse) regularly, and they were appalled by what they saw. In a presentation to Commissioners Court in the spring of 1973, they expressed Roddy Stinson their that children are kept in the detention center for weeks, even months; and that during this stay, they are in a building without one window and without any outside area for fresh air. you imagine children who are there for days at a time, never seeing sunshine, never breathing fresh air? a child really believe in justice when he is put in a place with no windows, because done nothing but have problems at home? a denraved criminal is allowed air and Women While praising the detention center staff are amazed at the care the children the women decried the facilities architect was more concerned with security than the welfare of the And they proposed a partial solution to the problem construction of a 50 by 100 feet to be put in the parking lot in back of the detention eenter- enough for a basketball court and picnic tables Recalling their appearance before the commissioners, Mrs.

McGrath says, told us never get approval for the playground for one reason Sen. Hubert Humphrey, has told friends he expected to l)c put out of action by cancer of the bladder. Instead, the cancer has been eliminated and he is in vigorous health. He has never been too religious, he has told friends, but he believes God mav have spared him for a purpose. Therefore, he intends to be a champion for the common people during the economic crisis he sees ahead Dr.

Morris Chafetz, the contentious head of the federal antialcoholism effort, has stopped a promising treatment program for government employes with drinking problems. By an interesting coincidence, the program was run by Dr. George who had once testified against Ghafetz in a discrimination case In a fierce private letter to James Gregory, the federal auto safelv chief. Senate Transportation Chairman Vance Hartke, has said it is for Gregory to back down on rules requiring sturdier auto bumpers. Hartke demanded a report from Gregory within 30 days on what he has done to get Detroit to justify lighter, more dangerous bumpers.

actually watching channel 5 as seen through the back of On becoming 40 Elvis Presley has just endeared himself to me by disappearing on his 40th birthday and refusing to come out until he gets it all together. 1 was in seclusion for a year ind a half before I felt I could adjust to the condition. No one. unless been here, can appreciate the physical and emotional raumas of reaching 40. Your pody reacts like a steam iron the last day of warranty.

It lies on you. As the second hand swept around on that grim day in February, signifying my Dirth, my eyes went. I read the sale tags on dresses or menus unless tney fell on the floor. And one day I cooked an 11 pound turkey for six hours when I should have cooked a six dollar turkey for 11 hours. Two hours later the teeth went.

Fillings that had served me for years fell out while I was eating pudding. I became a at the dentist. The body? I could have sued it for non-support and won. Muscles that had been with me for life either fell or shifted. I became a lumpy bundle of defensiveness.

One afternoon. I was under the dryer in the beauty shop leafing through one of those magazines where the models look at you like just taken a harsh laxative, when I saw a headline. FOR AFTER It said, wear pink eyeshadow. Don't wear red lipstick or nail polish. wear bright, diagonal patterns.

wear open-toed The list must have been a page long. Out loud I snarled, you mind if I chew Then I remembered 1 had just been to the dentist and chew on that side. A woman sitting next to me. looked over at the article and smiled, dear, you are only as old as you I almost smacked her across the mouth with my Medicare application. Everyone comes to grips with age 4(1 in his or her own private way.

Some people develop a holding pattern at age 37 until they can handle it. Some are resentful and make obscene phone calls to the Osmond Brothers. Others accept it for what it is, a punishment from God for not tithing to the church, I rather like the E1vis( Presley approach to 40. Just go to your room, refuse to answer the door, wallow in self-pity, and pray for a miracle drug to cure it. or another it be done.

they were Moved by the charm, compassion or whatever, the commissioners voted to include the playground in the current jail remodeling project. (It will be completed sometime this year.) Junior League: 1. Commissioners Court: 0. Spurred by that victory, Beaty. Patsy, et al began planning an attack on some of the more complex problems confronting local juvenile authorities like the need for residential facilities fur boy offenders.

Currently, boys adjudged delinquent by the courts face (1) commitment to a state penal institution or (2) probation in their own home. In many cases, neither of those two alternatives is in the best interests. Other options are needed. After several discussions with Richard Moreno, chief of the Juvenile Probation Department and a vocal advocate of improved juvenile care, the Junior Leaguers pinpointed their next battle the reopening of Southton Boys School Southton, located in south Bexar County, was built in 1931 as a residence for delinquent boys, and served as such until 1968 when county U.S. goal for energy doubted WASHINGTON (AP) The goal of energy self-sufficiency by the 1980s is and based on an overstatement of U.S.

oil and gas reserves, concludes a National Research Council study released Tuesday Council scientists said the remaining recoverable resources of oil and gas are than previously estimated by the Interior Department and other government agencies. Actual reserves may be less than half of that estimated by some leading government energy analysts, said the panel of scientists in its 348- page report, Resources and the The report casts serious doubts on the Ford Independence" calling for ending the reliance on imported petroleum products by the mid 1980s. In fact, the report states, there appears little that the United States can do in the near future to increase its oil and gas production by significant amounts. It should turn its attention instead to stronger conservation efforts, the report said. In other energy new The Senate tned to begin drafting its energy program in answer to President criticism of congressional in- acion But the committee meetings were cancelled because not enough senators attended.

An Environmental Protection Agency' official recommended that companies explore offshore areas for oil and gas under contract for the federal government, not with leases entiting them to proceed with development. A study released by the 1 Energy ion said some new controls should be established over international operations of oil companies. including government involvement in world oil purchases, fathers closed it down and put all their juvenile-care funds into the windowless downtown detention center facility. feel that the closing of Southton was says Patsy Beveridge. new thought (on delinquent care) points to the need for such local facilities as the best way to rehabilitate certain Thus, she and her Junior League colleagues were incensed when they learned late last year that the County Commissioners were planning to sell the 370-acre Southton property.

And they began a campaign to save it. Crusade Friday, that crusade will take them to Commissioners Court where, with the support of other concerned groups (most notably the National Council of Jewish Women), the Junior Leaguers will ask the commissioners to adopt a resolution favoring retention a portion of the Southton property, including the buildings and surrounding property, for a boys Only a cynic of the firsl order would suggest that the court will turn a deaf ear to their entreaties on behalf of the youngsters. Personally, I predict a knockout in the first round. Junior League: 2. Commissioners Court: 0.

A mail request on a rainy morning: advise if your biographical sketch (enclosed) is up to date." The biog is an inch of small type not many accomplishments for so much trying. the thing the editor hands the early morning reporter. it must to all he says. while not doing anything, give me a three para obit on A lot of accomplishments I cannot list. Simply unbelievable, that's why.

I got some coffee. Pad of paper and a pencil. 1 told the children: have been through school three times and am still going to school. Who would believe Nothing comes easy. I said: it, you arc supposed to be doing the homework.

Not He said: you want me to get a (They learn young.) I said: Wipe your eyes with this. Let me see the list and fetch me the cooking sherry." Too true, Max. I am doing sixth grade homework again. It has changed greatly since I was doing and rowing downstream. While the born loser, was paddling upstream.

(We were given their speeds. Question: Where on the river did they meet?) Homework these brisk days comes in printed crossword puzzles. across: The student is to fill this in with a word meaning the OPPOSITE. We have a word list. Couple of hundred words.

What is the opposite of Will that do? No chance. It fit the word which is Opposite We did a lot of work with apples. has five apples. He sells three for three cents Shows you when 1 went to school. Three apples for three cents! We cash a half a bill at the supermarket.

Come home with two sacks of groceries and a handful of telephone change. The bov said: is the opposite I said. as in poor as a (It turned out to be As in weak as a martini with too much ice.) ACROSS FROM THE COURTHOUSE ON SOUTH 1 24 SOUTH FLORES SPECIAL STORE HOURS 9:30 TO 8:30 NOW THRU RODEO RODEO SALE GREAT VALUES BIG SAVINGS WlHONOR BANK AMKRIG ARI) ARGE SPECIAL GROUP OF JEANS SHIRTS JACKETS PRICE GREAT SAVINGS JEANS SHIRTS BOOTS HATS WESTERN SLITS.