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SisNlweeiieeiiiiy-j HggaiP1 Bugging Attempt Gives Democrats New Status The Charlotte News DARRELL SI I FORD Evcaitive Editor HAVAR I SPLNCl liilioi By ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON bugged by the Jui slice Department was the highest honor tho government could bestow on one of its citizens It meant llm person was Important enough to warrant surveillance and his work was so meaningful that tho FBI wus worried about him BLVLRLY RCARHR Crucial Maruiftcr TOM BRADBURY Anot'ldlt Editor Tho Supremo derision which ruled that tho Justice Deportment could not bug or wlrelup anyone without court approval has put a pull on Washington In a town where status symbols nro essential being TUESDAY JUNE 27 1972 tant Job as far as the authorities arc concerned and we've been tapped for over a year When was the last time anyone tapped been tapped through three dilfercnt made that up Who cares what William has to say?" Tlie host would then interject "I wish you girls talk so loud I know someone has planted a bug in tho It was so important to be tapped in Washington that it is rumored many people used to install their own bugs in the wull and show them to friends as the real tiling 1 know one columnist who always insisted we walk in the garden when we talked about anything as lie claimed all his paintings had been wired by the FBI going to be hard in Washington to find something to replace tlie stylus of being bugged or wiretapped The only answer is tlinl since the government do it private industry will have to take over This could in effect be wlmt the bugging attempt of the Democratic National Committee was all about Thanks to tlie five men who were caught trying to bug the Democratic headquarters the Democrats have more status now than they ever had before Until the incident no one in Washington had ever heard of tlie Democratic Party But since the incident its prestige has risen and for the first time tho Democrats are being taken seriously 1972 Segregated Moose By PAUL GREENBERG It's not easy to grasp tho good Marshall is an exception Sense On Schools we have emphasized the flexibility of the power of district courts in this process (of supervising school desegregation) the invocation of remedial jurisdiction Is not equivalent to having a school district placed in receivership local school board plan that will eliminate dual schools stop discrimination and improve the quality of education ought not to (be) cast aside because a judge can evolve some other plan that ac- complishes the same result with a two per cent four per cent or six per cent difference In racial composition Such an approach gives controlling weight to sociological theories not constitutional One of tho biggest gambits of a lawyer or lobbyist in Washington has been to say to the client heller not discuss lids on tho phone I think my line is tapped" Tlie client would be immediately impressed and tlie lawyer or lobbyist would then double liis fee Tho same went for newspapermen stationed in this town A wise corrcsotuloiil would call his editor and say pass tho word at tlie paper that if anyone at tlie office has anything important to say not to cull me at home 'v got me bugged furious at the While House about the story I did on urban development and I hear tlie word is out to find out who leaked it If 1 have anything important to report I'll call you from a pay phone" Most militant protest groups arc distributed by the Supreme Court ruling Sam La Barbe the leader of tiie Student's Committee Against Students told me Supreme Court took all the fun out of protesting We used to sit for hours making obscene phone calls to friends telling Nixon Agnew John Mitchell and Kleindienst where to go Now hardly worth the At cocktail parties almost everyone in Washington talked about being bugged This is how the conversation would go: when I called you yesterday I had the most terrible everyone is complaining about it Charles told me last night that he heard they had a 24-hour tap on his line and it was weakening the would they want to tap Charles? certainly a small fish in this resent that remark Ethel Charles had a very impor THE PICK OF Punch PUNCH dire forebodings inspired by tho Supremo Court's decision that private clubs can discriminate against a guest on account of his race But spokesmen for civil rights groups across the country responded to the decision ns if tho court had reinstated Died Scott It takes some imagination and maybe a little paranoia to see how the Bill of Rights will rise or fall on whether an unwelcome guest can get a drink at the Harrisburg Ta Moose Lodge Yep that was the site of the test ease Maybe if Moose Lodges were in business to serve the public or if a convivial outing with the Moose were an indispensable part of a education (now there's imagination for you) or something like that but to deny the Moose tlie practice of their prejudices simply because they're tied into the state by a liquor license? Really Even if they called on the public constabulary of a Saturday night there would seem to be only a tenuous tie between the public interest and the social eccentricities of Moose Liberal jurisprudence marches on: The same court-watchers who hail the justices for protecting privacy make an exception for the Moose Justice Warren Burger Dissenting Justices Speak Plainly That plain language is from the heartening dissent of the four Nixon justices in the Emporia Va school case decided by the Supreme Court last week While the issues of the Emporia case are perhaps out of the mainstream of the current controversy over busing in urban districts the case is nontehtless significant to his usually stolid aversion to tho more ethereal reaches of the law That Justice Douglas should ho joined by two others In dissent is testimony to the continuing commitment to tho wilder reaches of civil rights ralhor than any withdrawal Meanwhile two consequential issues are hearing down on the court with the momentum of a school bus: First there are the new anti-busing amendments tacked on to the latest education bill amendments that purport to tell the federal judiciary not to enforce the law for a while The amendments present a direct but not complex challenge No independent and self-respecting court let alone one jecalous of its prerogatives should have too much difficulty dealing with this sort of thing More serious is the second challenge exemplified by tho Richmond case now on its way to the Supreme Court It involves the question of whether school children can be bused across a district or county line to achieve integration (Somehow it was never a major issue when they were bused across political boundaries to maintain segregation Circumstances alter causes) The decision in this mailer will say a great deal about whether Seeism-al-Norte (Northern-stylo big-citv segregation) will be broken up by busing orders or encouraged to snread throughout the country This is both an emotional and complex Question If the Supreme Court follows the pattern it set in the Charlotte case it will smother the issue in a generous blanket of Warren conflicting words with each side awarded different paragraphs Or the court could decide on a major departure and at- Copyright 1 972 Toronto Sun Syndicott That was amplified when Burger wrote that the goal is to dismantle dual school systems rather than to reproduce in each classroom a microcosmic reflection of the racial proportions of a given geographical area there is no basis for saying that a plan providing a uniform racial balance is more effective or constitutionally If It Docs Have A Message Probably Something Like Run Out Of First the 5-4 split on Emporia ended 18 years of Supreme Court unaminity on school desegregation Beginning with the original 1954 Brown decision on through the Charlotte-Mecklenburg case up until last week the justices had spoken with one voice Close observers of the court say this was deliberate that the many justices who served in those 18 years thought that unanimity was essential if the rulings in this difficult area were to be effective Consequently there was considerable compromise along the way as the justices sacrificed arguments over fine points in order to preserve the momentum of school desegregation Patriots Opposed Wars Not only has the four-member minority spokenly clearly on the legal limits of judicial control of school systems it has articulated well the practical limits Elsewhere in the dissent the chief justice wrote: To me the striking thing about the besides its having been written by William Rehnquist and nevertheless sounding like common sense instead of narrow is that three of the justices should have dissented If anything the split decision indicates a clear determination to carry civil rights to considerable lengths namely The Moose Lodge of Harrisburg Pee-Ay Which is not exactly the mainstream of public life in America if any part of it Okay William 0 Douglas might have been expected to dissent One would not be su-prised to see him declare driving on the right side of the road an arbitrary imposition of an oppressive society He might even write a book on the theme or at least an article in one of the more erotic magazines But William Brennan? His searching mind may have searched too far And the dissent from Thur- By GARRY WILLS states would lead to unless slave territory could be acquired in compensating quantities In the interest of this chain-reaction ideology we egged on the quarrel between Mexico and the Texans to reap our own advantage from it Is this too strong a statement of the matter? If so it is Grant's He even uses the word for our management of the a a i occupation separation and annexation were from the inception of the movement to its final consummation a conspiracy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American We even went beyond the disputed territory in our overrunning of There is an unfortunate impression among Americans that a patriot can take only one attitude to a war waged by this country That attitude is unquestioning support Yet one man of unchallengeable patriotism thought an American war he had to take part in was of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker The man was Ulysses Grant and the war was that which annexed Texas to this country "I was bitterly opposed to the Grant remembers of his days as a young soldier The nation so divided on other matters united around the acquisition of Texas out of a reverse-domino theory It was felt that extension of non-slave Thus the break from unanimity and in a rather obscure case sends a message that transcends the specifics of the dispute in Emporia Va Some feel that the court is abandoning a noble quest The Washington Post for example found the split and deeply and concluded that split suggests more than anything that the court has lost the leadership and the sense of direction it had not long limitation on the discretion of the district courts involves more than polite deference to the role of local governments Local control is not only vital to continued public support of the schools but it is of overriding importance from an educational standpoint as well The success of any school system depends on a vast range of factors that lie beyond the competence and power of the courts Curricular decisions the structuring of grade levels the planning of extra-curricular activities to mention a few are matters lying solely within the province of school officials who maintain a day-to-day supervision that a judge Texas in order to force Mexico to initiate Those who have read the Pentagon Papers will recognize an awful similarity how we goaded on the quarrel of North and South Vietnam to seize an opportunity for stopping a domino-fall unacceptable to us The crime of Diem was willingness to reach a settlement with the North tlie very thing we now after thousands of lives lost are trying to achieve? For that is the only real difference between our Mexican and Vietnam ventures Both were unjust and arrogant but the first one worked: the second is regretted not for its evil character but its unsuccessful one Yet even the earlier affair had its cost undetected at til? time but felt by General Grant all through the greater war he had to serve in By extending slavery into Texas America did not solve its problem with slaves but increased it making the solution more difficult and violent when it came tempt to clear up this troublesome question once and for all with a single inflexible decree for or against busing Now that is the kind of judicial impatience that led to the Dred Scott and endless sorrow It is the kind of decision that leaves no room for the ameliorating forces of time and practice That is the real challenge facing the court and the real danger 'Such An Interesting Creature Is Known To Exist But Would You Believe I Actually CAUGHT To many who had despaired of ever hearing plain talk or good sense from the high court on this subject those words are welcome even though they commanded only the votes of a minority in this instance Perhaps in other cases they will at least affect the thinking of the other justices The distress is understandable but we think misdirected Granted the facts of the Emporia case are not alto gether compelling for either side At issue was whether the city of Emporia could pull out of the county school system then being desegregated and operate a system of its own The court majority finding racial effect if not racial motive said no The court minority finding only minimal racial effect (both new systems would have been unitary and majority black though with somewhat different ratios) differed And in differing the minority finally said straight out that there are some limits on the power of district judges to run school systems and most important voted to put those limits into effect mmtfor- The fact that the court has now abandoned 18 years of unanimity is a stunning development but hardly a sign that any of the justices have abandoned their commitment to equality under the Constitution Rather it is an overdue reminder that not everything desired by judges plaintiffs and experts has constitutional sanction that the business of the courts is to apply constitutional doctrine not sociological theories The limit Burger and the other dissenters said is that power ends when a dual school system has ceased to His own judgment at the end of his life was a harsh one on both wars and he had witnessed the savagery of both: Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war Nations like individuals are punished for their transgressions We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war in modern If that judgment proved true of one of our wars then what will come of our unsuccessful one also by a stronger against a weaker If Grant could speak so bitterly of a war that seemed to unite the country what would he sound like in this day of bitter division of evil and folly compounded by loss? he might sound like a prophet speaking even more accusingly than an Ellsberg For the prophets of denunciation were in the Old Testament also patriots Millie Allen Millicent Marie (Millie) Allen was a person who made a difference Her death Sunday after a painful accident is saddening and a loss Despite Handicaps She Made A Difference handicapped people out of suicide and she has secured employment for over 60 of Severely handicapped Millie Allen was blessed with strong character and deep faith Her personal struggle for an independent successful life was in itself an inspiration Those who knew her even briefly came away with a deeper understanding of essential humanity and with new sensitivity to people who sometimes seem lost behind severe physical At the time of her accident she was working vigorously at her job and dreaming of a home here especially for the handicapped a worthy dream one that will be carried on by the Queen City Jaycees and we hope supported by the community Soviets ried To Mediate In Vietnam to play an active role as intermediary between the US and Hanoi states the papers was definitely a sharp change from previous Soviet reluctance to play the middleman More than she probably knew Millie Allen made a difference in that way She also made a dramatic difference in the lives of other handicapped people in her work as a counselor for United Cerebral Palsy and organizer of The Venturers As the Rev David Barnhardt who was instrumental in bringing Miss Allen to Charlotte said has talked many As the project lives so will the spirit of Millie life and work Directly and indirectly this remarkable courageous woman touched many people She helped make Charlotte a better more humane place for the handicapped and those without handicaps One hopes others will be inspired to take up her cause cept) to tell Brezhnev (the Communist party chief) of a great possibility of achieving the aim if the Vietnamese will understand the present situation that we have passed to them and they will have to decide a retrospective discussion with Thompson (then the US ambassador) in Moscow Kosygin expressed a jaundiced view of the role of mediators saying they either complicated the problem or pretended they were doing something when in fact they were not By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON The custodians of government secrets are gnashing their teeth again over our access to the still-secret portions of the Pentagon Papers These show how Lyndon Johnson tried to bring pressure upon Hanoi to negotiate a Vietnam settlement by orchestrating the air raids against the North He would withhold the bombs for awhile hoping this would encourage the North Vietnamese to negotiate Then he would let the bombs fly again when he thought they needed some prodding produced this change in Sovi-et attitudes? Were they acting on DRV (North Vietnamese) behest? Or were they now willing to put pressure on Hanoi in pursuit of interest of their own? must be recognized for what it is It is nothing less than the absolute authority of the government to make a state secret of whatever it wishes This divine right to classify documents has been abused to a degree beyond toleration Not only does the government sweep its bungles and blunders its errors and embarrassments under the secrecy labels But our entire foreign policy and defense posture remains secret except for what the federal establishment thinks is in its own interest to make public The tragic bitter lessons of Vietnam have shown the fateful consequences of allowing any President to exercise power in splendid isolation behind the double walls of executive privilege and official secrecy Editorial Research Reports BOBBY VS BORIS a little light is shed on these questions by the materials relating to stay in London He was apparently willing to transmit proposals for DRV consideration more or less uncritically While he argued the general merits of the DRV's side of the war he did not try to bargain or alter specifics of the proposals transmitted to him had stepped into this uncomfortable spot in London because Vietnamese had for the first time stated they were ready to negotiate if the bombings were stopped unconditionally this was the first time they had done so By the same token professional football players find that chess sharpens their mental agility on the field Ron Johnson and Bob Tucker both of the New York Giants are engaged in a marathon match that has been in progress for several years But Harold Schonberg argues in that chess brings greater rewards: is an affirmation of personality The game requires imagination and creativity the ability to see or sense possibilities hidden to less refined We will continue therefore to publish information that the government seeks to hide from the public by Sometimes he stepped up the bombing at crucial stages of the secret negotiations Repeatedly Hanoi would halt the talks because of the military pressure After his retirement President Johnson published selective excerpts from the secret papers to demonstrate how right and reasonable he had been He omitted the portions that made him look wrong and Championship chess is a contest that calls for prodigious amounts of physical as well as mental exertion To determine how much energy is actually expended by a chess player in a tournament game a bio-kinetic experiment was conducted at Temple University in 1970 Pulse heartbeat and other physiological measurements were taken on 12 volunteers during play The surprising result: Chess is as physically taxing as a strenuous session of boxing or football Thus both Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union are keeping their bodies in fighting trim as they prepare for their world championship chess match in Reykjavik Iceland starting July 2 The close-lipped Spassky has declined to reveal details of his training program although it is known he likes to play tennis daily regimen includes morning calisthenics in front of his television set followed by swimming tennis and bowling much the Russians had hoped in fact to accomplish during Kosygin's London trip is impossible to know They apparently harbored few expectations after his return Kosygin complained to Thompson about the imnlird in the final proposal he transmitted to Hanoi from London saying that he knew it was hopeless the minute he read it is more striking is that he did not react adversely to the substance of the principal de-escalatory proposal under discussion the termination of all DRV infiltration and supply into SVN in exchange for a US halt in attacks on the North and in troop level augmentation apart from the sequence in which these steps would be taken their long term result for the Communists would be extremely adverse militarily Yet on February 13 he was overheard (by telephone inter- The unpublished Pentagon Papers for example shed new light on the Soviet role in the Vietnam negotiations The Kremlin after showing no interest in settling the war suddenly adopted a different attitude in 1997 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin made the new attitude known during a London visit Despite the need for brawn as well as brain chess is regarded with indifference at best by most Americans The game is thought of as boring and strictly for the cerebral elite As a result the United States ranks about as poorly in world chess circles as it does in international ping pong competition The Soviet Union has around four million chess players who compete in tournaments the United States only about 25000 President Nixon also released sensitive information strictly for political reasons about Henry Kissinger's secret Vietnam negotiations The President used the information to reply to his critics The power to classify information This incident illustrates how little influence the Kremlin had over the North Vietnamese It was the beginning however of an increased Soviet interest in ending the Vietnam War British were first startled then delighted to find Kosygin eager.