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The Sacramento Bee Published weekday afternoons and Saturday and Sunday mornings by McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Fte-67 Locally owned and operated for 115 years JAMES McCLATCHY founder editor 1857-1851 McCLATCHY editor prepident 1SSS-1938 ELEANOR lIcCLATCHYpresident WALTER JONES editor licCLATCHY executive editor Vol 37793 Saturday July 8 1972 Editorials Latest Skyjacking Episodes Disclose Need For More Stringent Security The latest skyjackings in California one of to step up passenger and baggage screening meawhich led to the death of an innocent passenger as sures air crimes still are increasing well as two suspects prove air piracy has reached the stage of a public outrage The time for more In the latest situations there were only spot stringent security to prevent or curb these violent checks of passengers and hand baggage employed events has passed and metal detection devices were placed at some The federal government the Congress and the but not all gates Three hijackers escaped the surpublic should brook no more delay in establishing veillance and were able to board planes with load-drastic measures to prevent would-be air pirates ed weapons from taking weapons bombs or other such instru- More diligent searches are possible and additionments aboard airliners at preventive measures are available The passen In the latest situations there were only spot checks of passengers and hand baggage employed and metal detection devices were placed at some but not all gates Three hijackers escaped the surveillance and were able to board planes with loaded weapons More diligent searches are possible and additional preventive measures are available The fittkP TtiOop ob (1:4 al:) :11 11111111111:11" Sitviali 47410 ---r fe 4 Pi ia i of 4 Allitopoer--' 111 el '11 1 t' :1114 Iffil r104 11111611' W14) cowls 4 oRof i ARms 44' PENA -1tr 4s-- Its-47i 0 4 I 000 Ile 0 1 i rx 0 14 4 ato 110 41' 41 1 lop I 11 1 it 0 IA tegA -011114100 '1 7 i dia 1 litik I4-10 ty gzilp o( :146 4111 I Lew: 4 (0171 'It's A Big-Guys Game! Renault Is on vacation passengers' safety should be the paramount consideration in deciding how tough tc get in instituting these additional measures The public should not tolerate any more procrastination in adopting them Plight Of Poor Ivan In the Sacramento-to-San Francisco incident two passengers were injured in addition to the killing of three people and the endangering of nearly 80 other persons in the exchange of gunfire which resulted when Federal Bureau of Investigation agents rushed the plane While this means of stopping the hijack has been applauded putting helpless passengers into such desperate circumstance is not laudable On-b oar jetliner shootouts are a poor way to run an airline Following on the heels of this another hijacker was able to get on another jet flight with a weapon Fortunately this case did not end in a similar tragedy The two skyjackings disclose airport security procedures are woefully inadequate Airline officials protest they are not law enforcement agencies and therefore not equipped to handle the problem alone They cannot avoid all responsibility however Al Bonner first vice president of the Air Lines Pilots Association noted that although President Richard Nixon ordered an increase in airport security four months ago and the airlines were directed For whatever consolation it is worth the capitalistic Western world is not the only part of the world having bill-paying problems Ivan in the Soviet Union has his troubles too When he wants to pay a bill he does not write a check because a person with a bank account is more or less persona non grata Such a worldly possession is strictly bourgeois Instead he has to personally call on his sometimes not-too-friendly banker and give him the cash for his rent utilities etc The elderly non-too-agile tellers laboriously count the money and make out receipts This is snarling things up because a great deal of time is lost and if time is lost how will the comrades achieve the goals of the next 10-year plan? Washington Merry-Go-Round 1r'- '1! 1411 0: rf7': Church Mills Seen In Second Spot Getting On With The Chess Match By Jock Anderson IMI "It is a money-grubbing society like yours that produces a Bobby Fischer If anything like this ever happened in the Soviet Union the pressure of public opinion would never stand for it" Of course any Russian who acted as Fischer did would be cutting logs in Siberia come winter There is no way the Russians could begin to understand the concept of charging what the traffic will bear an idea all too familiar to Americans Now that Bobby Fischer has put chess on the front page along with the presidential contenders and the airline hijackings it would appear we can get on with the world championship contest in Reykjavik Iceland The match between the defending world champion Boris Spassky of Russia and Fischer will be most interesting in the light of the antics of both men Fischer's almost pathological fear of the press and his insistence chess professionals be paid as well as other professional sportsmen and Spassky's churlish demand for an apology and his re fusal to accept Fischer's letter expressing abject regret delivered to Spassky's hotel at 2 am of an open convention McGovern musing a moment said: "Well there's got to be a way to do something about unity" Then the senator laughed and added: "On the other hand throwing it open might tear the party apart" The two men drove on in silence for a moment but the vice presidency still pricked McGovern's mind He turned to Mankiewicz and said: "Listen I'm still thinking about a nonpolitical guy for vice president "It seems to me the vice presidency shouldn't be limited to politicians There are college presidents labor union leaders businessmen doctors We could go outside elected politics One of them might fit the bill" Mankiewicz who is having a hard enough time keeping delegates in line much less his candidate smiled but gave McGovern no encouragement "It's an interesting idea" he said "The way things are now it might fit the mood" Copyright 1972 By United Feature Syndicate Mankiewicz Myer Feldman Fred Dutton and Ted Van Dyck are opposed But young idealists in the McGovern camp are urging him to let the Democratic convention choose the running mate for the first time since the stormy 1956 convention in Chicago Then with the party in disarray Adlai Stevenson let the delegates choose They picked the late Sen Estes Kefauver over his dashing rival Sen John Kennedy The move helped unify the party but didn't keel) Stevenson from being swamped by Dwight Eisenhower With party unity again in tatters McGovern spoke to Mankiewicz recently about following Stevenson's example The two men were driving home from a Washington TV filming The air conditioning in McGovern's car had broken down and they sweltered as their Secret Service chauffeur eased them through Washington's steamy streets Mankiewicz brought up the subject In a perverse sense it was a good way to begin It was as they say in sports parlance "a real grabber" If the chess championship stories had been all about "pawn to king-four" or "queen's knight to king's bishop three" what newspaper reader would have gone beyond the first paragraph? Now the worldwide chess match is certain to attract worldwide interest MIAMI Jimmy the Greek the nation's No 1 oddsmaker favors George McGovern to win the Democratic presidential nomination with either Idaho's Sen Frank Church or Arkansas' Rep Wilbur Mills as his running mate The Las Vegas oddsmaker who prepares his political odds exclusively for us rates a McGovern-Church or McGovern-Mills ticket evenly as an 8-to-5 favorite Hubert Humphrey with McGovern as his running mate is given only an 8-to-1 chance And Ted Kennedy with Mills in the second spot is a 10-to-1 bet Like most other experts Jimmy the Greek in his first ratings for us 11 months ago made Sen Ed Muskie a 1-to-2 favorite to win the nomination Jimmy rated McGovern's chances as remote But over the months the amazing Greek has been far ahead of the pun dits and pollsters in detecting the voting trends He called the key Florida Wisconsin Ohio and California primaries almost on the nose He was alone in forecasting con rectly that Humphrey would come within 5 per cent of upsetting the favored McGovern in California The Soviet Press denounced Fischer as money A Soviet editor buttonholed an American at a reception in Moscow and said: Another Viewpoint President's Television Veto Editorial From The Los Angeles Times I ify 0 s1 programming Public affairs pro grams produced by an independent arm of educational broadcasting offer a depth and maturity and detail rarely available on commercial television PBS is not a network in the com mercial sense It currently produces only about 30 hours of programs a week one-third of those hours devoted to three superb children's programs Its entire programming is less than one-third the network time of CBS And less than half of the program time for a station like KCET (Channel 28) in Los Angeles comes from PBS But within that network portion is most of the quality station program development But it also proposed a support level appropriate to the national priorities going to $65 million in this fiscal year $90 million next year It is true as Mr Nixon noted in the veto message that federal support has increased sevenfold in four years But that support has been too little and too late The record is full of extraordinary program opportunities that have been lost for lack of funds The record is also full of the benefits of educational television and radio despite the limitations imposed by short-term and inadequate financial support Congress recognized this urgency in the legislation Congressional support was overwhelming The legislation was approved by the House 254 to 69 in the Senate 82 to I We hope that same support can now be used to overrride the veto JIMMY'S ODDS Now here are imtny's odds on the eve of the Democratic convention: McGovern (with Church or Mills) 8 to 5 McGovern (with Muskie or Washington's Sen Henry Jackson) 5 to 2 McGovern (with Florida's Gov Reubin Askew Illinois' Sen Adlai Stevenson III South Carolina's Sen Ernest Hollings or North Carolina's ex-Gov Terry Sanford) 6 to I Humphrey-McGovern 8 to Kennedy-Mills 10 to 1 Muskie-McGovern 20 to I Kennedy (with Hollings Sanford or Georgia's Goy Jimmy Carter) 30 to President Richard Nixon has vetoed legislation to provide greatly increased federal support on a two-year basis for educational broadcasting He wants a more modest increase and a one-year extension of federal support Mr Nixon said he is worried about the concentration of program control through the educational television network and neglect of what he calls "localism" an emphasis on local station production It is significant however that the only two programs mentioned in the veto message to demonstrate the potential for quality in educational television were two programs distributed by the Public Broadcasting System the embryonic educational television network The record suggests that all of Mr Nixon's reasons for the veto were not included in the veto message Clay Whitehead director of the President's Office of Telecommunications Policy had already indicated misgivings about the use of federal funds for public affairs broadcasting on the national level So in requesting one year and more limited financing until further evaluation is completed the President may have been seeking to exercise closer if indirect control over program content The legislation which Mr Nixon chose to veto embraced provisions to assure strength for local stations as well as national programming It pro vided that at least :30 per cent of the federal money go directly for local 1 I I i 01 1 1 ollipimmaiNEMEI 11 bodullonlilliEEMPAImur A it 1 1 1 i a fr4 6111K 11 00L'ictfarr-4 ef 44N 'V i El -1 mammicndmatma Quote mplirey-Jackson 30 to 1 Musk ie (with Jackson or Minnesota's Sen Walter Mondale) 30 to I McGovern (with Kennedy Carter Alabama's Gov George Wallace Indiana's Sen Birch Bayh or consumer advocate Ralph Nader) 50 to 1 McGovern (with Humphrey Iowa's Sen Harold Hughes Louisiana's Gov Edwin Edwards or Brooklyn's Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm) 100 to 1 Muskie (with Wallace Hughes Harris or Alaska's Sen Mike Gravel) 100 to 1 Any other dark horse combination in Jimmy's book would be a 30-to-1 shot State Sen Mervyn Dymally of Los Angeles County speaking of his bill which would have plugged an estimated $300 million in state tax "loopholes" "It was not a wild-eyed scheme aimed at bankrupting any segment of the state's society It was aimed at helping insure that all pay their fair share of taxes- Tallahassee Judge Sam Spector ruling against use of evidence collected by a shapely Eve-like temptress as a sheriff's undercover agent ginning with Adam and Eve and continuing down through the ages winsome women have worked their wiles to weaken the will of men and induce them to engage in conduct they might otherwke have shunned thus to perform acts not purely of their What educational television needs is independence In some measure that depends on the quality of the directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting allocates the federal money They are presidential appointees Independence also depends on a variety of sources of support and the President must know that In the last fiscal year federal support came to only 20 per cent of the total PBS already has proved a number of pointt about the vabylue of national US Sen Philip A Hart of Michigan speaking in favor of national no-fault automobile insurance "The time indeed has come to write finis to the inefficient insufficient and inhumane tort liability insurance system which wastes consumer dollars human Ihrcs an court time" OPEN CONVENTION Sen McGovern is pondering whether to throw the vice presidential nomination wide open if he is nominated for president Most of his political managers such veteran professionals as Frank () 1972 by NEA Inc "Doesn't It seem rather strange that you're for McGovern and I'm for Jane Walters 11 who won a soap box race in Phoenix by defeating 107 boys and nine other girls "All the boys are jealous They didn't think a girl would win Well I'm proving that girls aren't so thumb" rt.