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What About yOur
Jack Anderson Says
Ally Oppressor?
At about the same time as Russian author Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn was under siege in his Moscow apartment
and the world waited to see what punishment the
Kremlin was planning for Mm, a score or mike of dissi-
dents in another country were under arrest for the
same crime — daring to speak out for human liberty.
Solzhenitsyn’s travail and his subsequent exile from
his totalitarian home made headlines in the Western
press. The fate of the dissidents in supposedly
democratic South Korea was reported in the back
|gjo pages,.if at all. . _________
In January, some 19 persons were arrested in South
Korea for violating two emergency decrees issued by
President Chung Hee Park forbidding opposition to the
1972 constitution which was promulgated under mar-
tial law and ratified without debate in a national elec-
tion. The new constitution gives virtually unlimited
powers to the president.
In early February, five South Korean literary figures *
were arrested as “spies” for North Korea because they
called for revision of the constitution. Since then, seven
^ university students have been given five-to-10-year
EL sentences; a publisher and former member of the
national assembly has drawn a 15-year sentence and
numerous prominent citizens have been put. under
investigation as espionage suspects.
Most recently, four Christian clergymen were
sentenced to 15-year prison terms for defying the
presidential ban on criticism of the constitution.
None of these people, of course, is a famous, Nobel
Prize-winning author, and South Korea is a small coun-
try that counts for little in international affairs —
although only two decades ago the United States ex-
pended billions of dollars and the ltosjof 50,000 of its
sons to secure that nation’s independence.
Nor is what has happened to dfmocracy in South
Korea greatly different from the situation in Greece,
which gave the word democracy to the language/or in
South Vietnam where, despite even greater American
sacrifice and continuing financial and military sup-
port, anyone daring to criticize the regime — even
from the highest patriotic motives — is swiftly sent to
join the many thousands of political dissidents
cramming that counfry’s prisons and detention camps.
During the time that Solzhenitsyn’s future remained
in doubt, there were any number of calls, some of them
heard in the halls of Congress, for the United States to
use what leverage it had with the Kremlin on this brave
man’s behalf. Fortunately for the sake of “detente,”
the necessity did not arise.
But indeed, how could we have presumed to speak in
defense of freedom in Soviet Russia when we seem un-
able, or unwilling, to use our vastly greater influence
over certain of our allies where government oppression
is no less an affront to human dignity?
TO NEW
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TALKS
Behavior Of Nixon
Convinced Jurors
ANDERSON
Walkin’Tall!
The Conservative Advocate - -
Impeachment !Pros'
Working On GOP
RUSHER
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By WILLIAM A. RUSHER
As a vote on the impeach-
ment of President Nixon draws
slowly nearer, first in the
House Judiciary Committee
and then in the House of Rep-
resentatives itself, advocates
of impeachment are going to
work on Republican members
of Congress.
The argument is being
pressed, in some ways quite
plausibly, that Nixon’s im-
peachment is in the best in-
terests of the Republicans
themselves.
It does not seem to have oc-
tical polarity - it is not in the
best interests of the Demo-
crats.
All politics is conflict. There
never has been, and never will
be, a democratic society Jn
which all issues of policy are
settled and everybody is work-
ing happily toward t%e same
goals.
Since the struggle is perpe-
tual and no victory ever really
settles very much, the shrewd
political strategist will usually
direct his attention, not to the
question “Who’s winning?”
but rather to the question,
“Where’s the battlefield?”
AT PRESENT, and for almost
a year., the central political
question before the country
has been whether Richard Nix-
on should be impeached. It is
difficult to imagine any issue
more agreeable, purely as an
issue, to the leaders of the
Democratic Party.
As long as that question
looms before us unresolved,
jjiey simply cannot lose. Take
any side you choose — yes, he
should" be impeached; no,
there isn’t enough evidence; or
merely wait and see—and you
are automatically doing the
Democrat Party a favor. It’s
like a football game played
solely between the 50-yard line
/ and your opponents’ goal post.
To be sure, there are plenty
of Americans for whom the im-
peachment and removal of Ri-
chard Nixon, as promptly as
possible, is a far higher goal
than merely accommodating
the Democratic Party. But I
doubt that many Democratic
congressional leaders look at it
that way. After all, if Nixon
were removed from office Ge-
rald Ford would automatically
become President, and there
would be an obligatory “ho-
neymoon,” probably at least
several months long, before his
Congressional opposition could
decently start opposing him.
Meanwhile, the presfent Re-
publican members of Con-
gress, who must fight for re-
election this November, could
put Nixon and the whole Wa-
tergate nightmare behind
them and pose instead as good
soldiers of the new President.
WASHINGTON - President
Nixon’s “gnBty behavior” con-
vinced the Watergate grand
jurors last etanmer that he was
tmplratal in the Wtfergate
cover-up, according to inform-
ed sources.
Most damning was his action
after hearing the evidence
against his three closest advis-
ers — E R. Haldeman, John
Ehrlidxnan and John Mit-
el*^
The case against the trio was
laid out fo« the President on
April 15 bjfthen-Atty. Gen. Ri-
chard Kleindienst and Assist-
ant Atty. Gen. Henry Petersen.
They presented most of the
evidence which has now be-
come the basis for the grand
jury indictments. Our sources
say Petersen also warned the
President that it looked as if
Haldeman and Ehrlichman
bad directed a criminal cover-
up. ......_____________
Petersen advised the Presi-
dent to fire Haldeman and
Ehrlichman but urged him not
to fire his counsel, John Dean.
Petersen explained that Dean
was cooperating with the prose-
cutors.
The President set out, ap-
parently* to do exactly the op-
posite. On April 16, he huddled
with Haldeman and Ehrlich-
man. Out of this came the deci-
sion to fire not the pafr Peter-
sen had suspected of running
the cover-up but the counsel
who was helping the prosecut-
ors make them case.
UK President dictated to
Ehrlichman a letter of resig-
nation for Dean and then called
in Dean and asked him to sign
it. Dean refused, saying he was
‘not willing to be the White
House scrapegoat for Water-
gate.”
that the President tried to tb- demand* for money were dto-
wart Dean, who presumably
ins cooperating With the pro-
secutors m the hope of getting
immunity ter himself. For on
April 17, the President issued a
WatetgMe announcement de-
claring:
“I have expressed to the ap-
propriate authorities my view
that no individual holding, in
the past or at present, a posi-
Uopof major importance in the
Administration should be gi-
ven immunity from prosecu-
tion.”
Meanwhile, he asked Peter-
sen for more specifics about
Dean’s confessions and other
information gathered by the
prosecutors. He resisted the
pressure to remove Haldeman
and Ehrlichman until April 30
when he finally felt compeUed
to accept their resignations.
But on nationwide TV, he
cussed at a Man* 29 meeting
in the President’s office.
Dean testified that he told
the President that the pay-offs
could run $1 million. Nixon told
him “that was no problem,”
swore Dean, “and he also look-
ed over atHaldeman and re-
peated the same statement."
Haldeman agreed under
oath that the President had
said raising $1 million was no
problem. But Haldeman insist-
ed that the President had add-
ed: “That would be wrong.”
The grand jury, which bad ac-
cess to the White House tapes
of the meeting, charged that
Haldeman had lied about this.
Here are other incidents that
raise questions in the minds of '
the grand jurors about Presi-
dent Nixon:
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called them "two of the finest then-FBI chief Pat Gray warn-
public seiyants it has beenmy ed the President that “people
THE GRAND jurors believe
' privilege to know.” In another
statement issued by the White
House he praised them still
more. "Throughout our asso-
ciation,’’hesaid, “each of
these men has demonstrated a
spirit of selflessness and dedi-
cation that I have seldom seen
equalled.”
After they left the White
House, he met with their law-
yer and permitted Haldeman
to monitor the controversial
White House tapes that had
been denied to the courts. For
a short term, they even kept
their limousine privileges and
arrived in a White House
limousine for questioning by
the grand jury.
The sealed grand jury evi-
dence," according to our
sources, also implicates the
President in an alleged conspi-
racy to buy the silence of the
Watergate defendants. Their
on your staff are trying tp mor-
tally wound you in the Water-
gate case.” Gray testifiedthat,
“Frankly I expected the Presi-
dent to ask me some questions
for two weeks after that.” But
Nixon never bothered to ask
which aides were hurting him.
— The President ordered
Petersen not to follow up on the
discovery that Watergate con-
spirators had also been invol-
ved in the 1971 burglary of Da-
niel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist.
“That’s a national security
matter,” Nixon allegedly said.
“You stay out of that."
IN HIS April 30 speech, the
President announced that on
March 21 he had “personally
ordered those conducting the
investigations to get all 'the
facts and to report them di-
rectly to me.” * .
Rep. 78748-158 and others
Has honest politics gone thataway?
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“The former Vice
President, two former
cabinet officers, three
congressmen, a
former senator and a
federal judge were ,
indicted, convicted or
sentenced (last year).
Morethan5ty —
indictments of state
and local officers
were also returned/’
— U.S. Department of
Justice news release
By Tom Tiede
WASHINGTON - <NEA) -
Although it is not a complete
tally, the Justice Depart-
ment's statistical summation
of official corruption for 1973
seems to confirm what
headlines have intimated for
months: The nation’s motto is
changing from E Pluribus
Unum to Omnis Idem Faciunt
— “Everybody’s Doing It.”
; The courts and jailhouses public’s crookedest state. In a
are filling up with busted 'three-year stretch, the US:.
and taxes, citizens are no
longer .willing to wink at bu-
reaucrats who have hands in
the public till. Because of
this, some new and ag-
gressive U.S. attorneys have
found increased cooperation
with, and acceptance for, the
deodorizing process.
"We had corruption and
people who wanted to stop it
100 years ago,” says former
U.S. Attorney Herbert Stern,
but it has taken Watergate
and a final public disgust to
bring about a real
Crackdown.
Thus it is that much of the
present investigatory ac-
tivity is not illuminating new
corruption but old corrup-
tion. Says Tony Valukas, of
Chicago’s (federal) official
corruption strike force:
“Many of the investigations
we’ve recently completed
were started years ago. What
we have here is a case of a
long-entrenched Democratic .
organization now being in-
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former political function- even beginning to think a lot
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such as John Mitchell and much, says a Maryland fed- responsible (for corruption)
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three former congressmen dants are household names, political honesty has fallen so "We (the citizenry) are
responsible (for corruption),
not our leaders, since we fol-
low them and we let them
divert our loyalties...’’
Given the obvious extent of
corruption in modern public
office, no one wants Steffens’
troth to spread .the land
again.
proportionately worse, council president of
Gallagher's New Jersey is Lackawanna, N.J., charged
with reason called the Re- with extortion. From village
t gotten sick of keeping the
:ks in office - the law, the
people, everybody has gotten
Indeed, the climate for
prosecution has been fair
since the beginning of the Se-
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