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Page Saturday, July 8, 1972 xpress ws EDITORIALS I The editeriaii below repfeteni the ond of the Eiprcti The iigned cartoons, ond to the editor on fhii page represent the personal views of litv' outhors They moy ogree or they moy conflict with the views of the Eipress They ore in an effort to offer voried viewpoints of the issues of the doy Get-Tough Drug Drive Performance, Too The Ircasury-IRS campaign against drug traffickers is encouraging in its concept and in its results announced this week. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Eugene T. Rossides said the campaign has extracted from drug peddlers about $1 million more than the campaign has cost the public. Rossides said 41 dealers in illegal drugs have been His aim is to trap them in income tax law violations if he trap them directly involved in the illegal drug traffic. Skyjack Scheme Needs Some Help Since it is demonstrably dangerous to play with skyjackers and since it is apparently true that one episode feeds others, a better approach is desperately needed.

Instant cash and ready parachutes apparently appeal to the romantic or desperate mental cases at large in the country. If it is impractical to keep armed passengers off the airlines a better deterrent is needed. All schemes have to be considered against risks to passengers and very expensive airplanes. Refusal to provide ransom and escape equipment would set the stage for confrontation. A trick might work, either to trap the skyjacker or let him kill himself in a fall.

But the best system, apparently unworkable or really untried, is to keep armed people off planes, in the first place. It should be noted that only one skyjacker so far has got away with his loot; the others were either caught or killed. Chess Comes Off Back Page Bobby Fischer, the chess champion, has propelled his match with the Russian and world champion, Boris Spassky, from two paragraphs in the back of the paper to detailed accounts at the front of the paper. He has pulled a Muhammed Ali on the chess world and miscellaneous bystanders around the world. By precipitating a confrontation about money nearly everybody knows a chess match will begin Tuesday in Iceland and the pot is a fat $300,000.

That shames most of the better golf matches. Furthermore, as a spectator sport, chess must rank behind everything else except perhaps tiddlewinks. And a mouth did it all! The 41 people in Texas mostly in South Texas are a part of 770 in the country who are marked for action through the tax laws. enthusiasm is highly encouraging. His score card on convictions through tax laws seems vigorous enough.

His forecasts are comprehensive. Performance will be the pay-off, of course, and his warning to the people in illegal drug traffic to get out suggests the people are more elusive than he would like. There are no criminal tax charges pending in the South Texas region marked on the Treasury-IRS scorecard and no convictions have been recorded. State and local officers have confiscated cash and property in South Texas valued at $700,272 however. If the traffickers can be made to pay for enforcement, gaining.

Democrats Feel Money Pulse Democrats will feel the pulse Saturday night and Sunday. In its most sensitive place: the pocketbook. They will sponsor a telethon. With 170 well-known personalities as masters of ceremonies, some of the best talent in television in charge of production, some of the most- dedicated party w'orkers volunteered to staff the telephones, and elaborate telephone banks in 32 regional offices, the party will ask for enough money to erase its $9.3 million debt and have enough left over to run its 1972 election campaign. For 19 hours on national television (in two segments), the party will make its appeal.

Cost of the telethon production will be met through a $500- a-plate with the in Miami on Saturday night. An underwriter, John Y. Brown of Louisville, has said he lose America The party chiefs have arranged to handle credit card donations, have reminded that new law allows tax deductions up to $50, and will make clear the treasury is in bad shape after the 1968 debacle. This is bold, new its performance right out everybody can see it. Whal Others Sav I A number of ground troops continues to go down.

But. since President Nixon gave authorization for renewed bombing of the North on April 6. both halves of the country have sustained the heaviest bombing of the war. The paradox of these tactics is that, in withdrawing, the United States is leaving an inhuman and shaming legacy of destruction which is no tribute to the cause of government it purports to GUARDIAN. Manchester By JACK ANDERSON AFL-CIO chief George Meany, the angry man behind the stop McGovern drive, has made kindling of every olive branch the McGovern forces have offered him.

The durable old despot has been cordial enough to George McGovern in person and even gave his blunt blessing to a McGovern speech at the AFL-CIO convention. Privately, however, the old curmudgeon breathes fire at the mention of name, calls him candidate of amnesty, acid and and threatens to withhold AFL-CIO support if nominated. WII.AT’S MORE. Meany apparently be mollified. accustomed to 111 i Democratic presidential politics in the smoke-filled backrooms, with his own stogie predominant.

And too old and stubborn to let party reforms change the political habits of a lifetime. Some intimates say he turned sour on McGovern during the Senate battle over Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1966. The AFL-CIO sought to repeal this section, which permits states to adopt right-to-work laws that weaken labor unions. The move was defeated by a filibuster, which pro-labor senators tried in vain to shut off. On the first roll call, McGovern voted to stop the filibuster.

THIS W.AS UNPOPULAR in native South Dakota, which has a right-to- work law. He, therefore, notified two top labor Andy Biemiller and the Retail Charles he would like to change his vote. He asked for their agreement, promising he would stick with them if they really needed his vote. Biemiller agreed to give McGovern a that is, to release him from his labor commitment unless his vote should be needed in the clutch. On the next roll call, vote decisive, so he switched in favor of the filibuster.

He was the only one who changed his vote. Meany was so angry that the lobbyists dare tell him they had okayed reversal. The old labor lord was attending a shindig at Americana Hotel when he learned they had lost a vote on the second roll call. Witnesses recall that he turned on Lipsen, who had flown to Miami for the occasion. was the growled Meany.

me Lipsen began. Meany cut him off. want any he thundered. tell me who was the Lipsen kept trying to explain the circumstances but finally was browbeaten into simply divulging name. That was all Meany wanted to hear.

RATHER THA.N embarrass the two subordinates, McGovern never tried to square himself with Meany. Only reluctantly would McGovern now confirm the incident to us six years afterward. Lipsen refused to comment, saying only that Meany was great And Biemiller be reached. At the start of his presidential campaign last year, McGovern tried to make peace with Meany. McGovern carefully avoided compromising the two labor lobbyists and, therefore, mention that he had cleared his controversial vote in advance.

All he said to Meany was: was wrong on the 14(b) matter. I struck out. I made a To surprise, Meany shrugged it off. upset me more than he grunted, your criticism of me on the Russian wheat AS FOOD FOR PEACE director during the Kennedy administration, McGovern had accused Meany of blocking wheat shipments to Russia. The AFL-CIO chief said it true.

McGovern said his information had come from the highest authority. if I was he said, What really bothers Meany, say some intimates, is antiwar record. But whatever it is, the 77-year-old labor leader intends to summon all his fading powers to block nomination. "iUl mil IS TO MdDf WHO TO RIM ME Merry-Go-Round Tale of Two Georges: Meany vs. McGovern David Lawrence Hanoi Told to Make Peace WASHINGTON China and the Soviet Union are apparently each advising Hanoi to settle the Vietnam War with the United States.

Just how they communicated their advice has not been revealed. but Communist diplomats in London have indicated that in a a approaches the two major powers have made it clear in almost identical terms that the time has come for a solution in order that peace in Asia might be attained. According to the diplomats who were the source of the information sent by newsmen in their dispatches from London, specific concessions from Hanoi were not asked for by Moscow or Peking, but they both have implied that some degree of flexibility is necessary to pave the way for an end to the war. While China and the Soviet Union continue to furnish assistance, there is no doubt that North Vietnam is beginning to worry about the reaction of its two allies. The truth is China and Russia are i more and more interested in developing better intercourse with the United States, not only on a diplomatic on a trade basis.

It is obvious to diplomats of many countries that a change in the Vietnam situation is essential for an improvement of relations between the United States and both China and the Soviet Union. HANOI HAS BEEN grow- i increasingly concerned about the possibility of flagging support from its allies. North Vietnam has reached a point in the war where it must make a decision of a crucial nature. For its ports are blockaded, and air bombardment has knocked out rail routes by which arms have been shipped to North Vietnam. The bombing has wrecked much of the industry and destroyed stockpiles.

There is an intensification of troubles which North Vietnam can hardly endure much longer. CsRftfFSTI to of UoTS OF PifiT Under the circumstances, the recommendation of Moscow and Peking is that Hanoi should start negotiating seriously and work out a peace agreement so that the fighting will cease and an era of reconstruction can be begun. The policies of the Soviets and the Red Chinese are being discussed by diplomats who have become familiar with what the Communists are doing, and the predictions are that the resumption of the talks in Paris soon will turn out to be productive. QUESTIONABLY, if governments of mainland China and of the Soviet Union tell the government of North Vietnam that it is time to end the war and make the best peace possible and that this step is one which both its allies wish to be taken so that there will be no confrontation with the United States, it would be logical for the North Vietnamese to see that it is to their advantage to follow the advice of those who have assisted them throughout the entire conflict. The United States has no intention to interfere in the internal affairs of either South or North Vietnam.

It merely wants each country to be given the right to determine its own form of government, The first step undoubtedly will be a cease-fire throughout Indochina, 1- lowed by an arrangement for return of our prisoners of war and final withdrawal of American forces. Negotia- i 0 can work out the means of assuring the two i a the exercise of their rights to assert their respective desires for an independent status. The government here has not openly requested either Peking or Moscow to intervene. It is obvious, however, that with huge sums being spent in openly requested either Peking or Moscow to intervene. It is obvious, however, that with huge sums being spent in Southeast Asia by all three countries China, the United States and the Soviet of dollars could be turned toward more constructive purposes if the war in Vietnam were brought to an end.

The belief here is that there are undercurrents in both North and South Vietnam favoring an early settlement and that, with an impetus given the negotiations by mainland China and the Soviet Union, the United States will find a more receptive group of representatives to discuss a peace agreement when the meetings are resumed in Paris on July 13. This welcomes from ill readers. They should be shorl, not over 300 words, ond they must be signed. However, only reoders' initiols will be used if the request is made. Unsigned letters will not be published.

The paper reserves the right to edit ony letter for length, good taste or legol reosons. writers must include their proper address and telephone will not be the correct identity of the writer can be esfoblished. Send letters to P.O. 2171, Son Antonio, Texas 78297. Editorials on McGovern Dear Sir: Two recent editorials concerning Sen.

George efforts to gain the Democratic presidential nomination misinterpreted the intent of the McGovern-Fraser Democratic Party Reform Commission. Concerning the California challenge, the so-called winner- take-all primary was not, as your June 27 News editorial stated, by the reform commission. Winner-take-all elections were specifically allowed and were used this year in Ohio, Oregon. Rhode Island, South Dakota, and the District of Columbia in addition to California. it curious that Hubert Humphrey, who led the California challenge, did not challenge these other election results on grounds? Not so curious when you consider that representatives appeared before both the reform group and the California party earlier this year in support of the winner-take-all provision.

Of course, at that time Humphrey expected to win all the primaries. You characterized reaction to his flim-flam as in a July 1 editorial. I think the senator is justifiably angry when the Democratic resident hypocrite attempts to alter the rules when it is to his advantage. No one, including your editorial writer, seems to care that the Democratic reform commission considered at length the question of winner-take-all primaries, and then voted to allow them. Can the Credentials Committee reverse this ruling and still be acting in the of party Compare the California question with the Illinois delegation challenge in which the delegates were chosen by a closed, often secret, back-room, machine controlled, slate-making operation.

Certainly this action violates the as well as the letter of the reform commission ruling. How did Humphrey supporters vote in the credentials committee hearings? Surprise! They forgot their earlier sided with the back-room boys, and voted against the challenge. So much for adherence to the of party re- Gary E. Krell McGovern, California Dear Sir: In reference to your editorial on Sen. McGovern July 1.

I would think the next time you run the senator down, you have a open mind. You call him a hypocrite for his reaction to the California delegates being taken away. If Senator Humphrey had won you want him to keep the delegates he won. And then you seem to think there any backroom deals, you must be dreaming. You say the rules were challenged under party reform, this have been done before the primary? Oh for the record how you stand on Mayor Daley being un- Bob Simpson Pound Dear Sir: In answer to Mr.

Chas. letter entitled and in your June 30 edition, his interest in jail reform is commendable. However, Mr. Sullivan seems to feel that because there is a need for jail reform, the atrocities at the Brackenridge Park pound facility should have been ignored. Actually, I cannot see why one concern should negate the other.

Around 100 animals a day are destroyed at the pound. They are there because of the irresponsibility of the public; therefore, the very least we owe them is a death as free from suffering as possible. These animals were being beaten to death, suffocated, strangled, and allowed to die of sickness and injuries without food, water, or medical attention. The HSUS and certain San Antonians saw the need to do something and they did it. There are enough concerns to go around and enough people to expend the time and energy it takes to do something about them.

It does take patience, determination, hard work and time. Dorothy Parham Qvil Service Retirement Dear Sir: July 1 I received my retirement check, I worked for the federal government for over 21 years, part of that time was served in Pearl Harbor. Enclosed with my check was a notice that on Aug. I would receive an increase in pay due to the cost of living increase, that raise would amount to 4.8 per cent which does not even pay for the increase in groceries. Your reported on the same day that Congress had passed a bill giving Social Security workers a 20 per cent increase in pay.

Now what I would like to know is are we retired federal employes considered second class citizens that we are not entitled to the same benefits given to those who have worked in private industry and are drawing Social Security benefits. I think that we the retired civil service workers, are getting a dirty deal and I have written both senators and my congressman telling them that I thought we were being treated like second class citizens, and if you will publish this letter I urging all retirees of civil service to do likewise, that is write letters to their congressman, and to both senators If they know where to send their letters if they just address them to Senator Tower or Bentsen, or to Congressman Gonzalez or Fisher or whoever this congressman is. Just address the letter to them Washington D.C. The name senator or congressman will find the right person. Bernice L.

Smith Jr. byjaokwohl-f 3 1 told ya all you gotta do to beat Achilles is kick him in the.