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THE DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE
Wednesday, June 28, 1918
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Koreagate:
Will token punishment end the story?
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Without on unfettered press without liberty of speech oll the out-
word forms and structure of free institutions are a sham, a pretense
— the sheerest mockery
— William Borah
Hottest crime going
House Ethics
Committee finds
nothing more
serious than
'ethical
impropriety'
' HOW DO YOU SAY. ' DO NOT DISTURB ‘ IN KOREAN 2 "
ISSUE: Arson,
though increasing,
draws less attention
For reasons hard to fathom, arson
seems to be taken less seriously than
numerous other crimes and social"
problems. Yet arson is described, in a
report issued by the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration, as the
fastest growing and most destructive
crime in the nation.
This is just now coming to be
recognized in official quarters, and the
public lags far behind in understanding
the situation. "The enormity of the
arson problem and its dramatic rate of
increase in recent years,” the LEAA
report says, “are appreciated by few
people."
The magnitude of this crime appears
starkly in these figures for the year
1975: lives lost, 1,000; injuries, 10.000;
property damage. $1.4 billion in the
face of this, we are told, "less
assistance, such as training, equip-
ment. research and development
has been given to arson investigators
than any other criminal investigators.”
This suggests an obvious course of
action: adding more investigators and
providing much more in the way of
training and equipment. Something
else is involved, however. The LEAA
report’s conclusions about arsonists’
motives make it evident that a
program of education is needed
It has been widely supposed that
insurance fraud underlies a large
percentage of the fires set. We are told,
on the contrary, that insurance fraud
accounts for only about 5 percent of
arson cases, whereas revenge and
vandalism (which often involves
revenge) are the motives many times
more often.
There is need for education to point
up the seriousness of this crime — its
potential toll in deaths, injuries and
property loss Beyond that, there is
plainly a need for tougher law en-
forcement. Very few arsonists are
caught and convicted Some who go
unscathed are getting away with
murder
Harvey
By PAUL HARVEY
Syndicated Columnist
The crime infinitely worse than Watergate:
members of Congress taking bribe money from a
foreign government to put the interests of that
government ahead of our own
The Korean bribery scandal is about to be swept
under the rug with a Senate Ethics Committee
mildly critical of only one senator — and he is
dead
The House Ethics Committee finds nothing more
serious than what they call “ethical impropriety."
Woodward and Bernstein, where are you when
we really need you’
Leon Jaworski says up to two dozen
congressmen could be punished or expelled by
their fellow House members because of their in-
volvement in the South Korean influence-buying
scandal
There is evidence that eight congressmen were
given envelopes — directly or indirectly from
South Korea's ambassador — stuffed with hun-
dred-dollar bills
But the last we’ve heard from the House Ethics
Committee is that there is “insufficient proof ”
o
Airlines bump too often
The airlines laid themselves open to
the Civil Aeronautics Board's new rule
to discourage "bumping" of
passengers with a confirmed reser-
vation To put it as temperately as
possible, this practice has gotten out of
hand during 1976. a record 133,000
persons — 7 per 10,000 passengers —
were bumped at U.S. airports Three
years earlier, the rate had been just 4.6
per 10.000
The airlines say they must overbook
flights to make up for “no-shows" who
reserve seats but fail to appear The
CAB, recognizing that there is some
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practical merit in this argument, has
stopped just short of placing an
outright ban on overbooking This
leniency was spiced with a warning,
however, that a halt to overbooking will
be considered if the practice is not
sharply reduced
Meanwhile, the new order steps up
the bumping penalty enough to assure
that the airlines will take greater care
Under the rules effective Sept 3, a
bumping might cost a carrier as much
as $400 if the passenger arrives late at
his or her destination That should have
a welcome deterrent effect on a
practice that is a marked in-
convenience to air travelers
As recently as last January, the Justice
Department's top prosecutor was expecting the
indictment of four more former congressmen.
Assistant Attorney General Civiletti said that
bribery was involved and violation of election laws
and mail fraud and perjury
Now we are told that the worst any member of
Congress, past or present, need fear is a slap on
the wrist for "impropriety," for "violating the
ethical standards of Congress."
Congressman Donald Fraser of Minnesota
heads a subcommittee investigating South Korean
relations and he has seen evidence that South
Korean intelligence planned to infiltrate our White
House, Congress, the Pentagon, our State
Department and our news media — seeking thus to
reshape L’ S policy from the inside The obvious
purpose was to spend a few hundred thousand
dollars to influence our Congress to appropriate
professor
says
Gov. Briscoe is reportedly close to celling a
special session for July to deol with the issue of
taxation.
How does he hope to accomplish in JO days
what he's been unable or unwilling to do in six
ETHICS
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1977 Los Angeles Times
more millions of dollars for South Korea But now
we are told — and in this congressional election
year—that there is "no proof" that the plan was
carried out I have seen a list of 58 members of
Congress who were cultivated by South Korea 42
of those lawmakers admit some form of contact
with South Koreans That is roughly one-tenth of
the entire membership of the House half of
Congress There is a South Korean list of 30
senators who were selected for gifts or cash or
both Again the club-like atmosphere of the
Congress has smothered self-investigation
Woodward and Bernstein, where are you when we
really need you’ Publisher Katherine Graham of
the Washington Post has said publicly; "We must
ask ourselves if we would have been as altogether
tenacious in our investigation of Watergate if the
president had been anybody other than Richard
Nixon" If what's been dubbed "Koreagate"
escapes the X-ray eyes of the investigative
newshawks, that question will have answered
itself
Cutting the budget isn’t so easy
By ART BUCHWALD
Sy indicated C Columnist
Proposition 13 has sent a message to everyone in politics
People are tired of paying taxes, and they're tired of their
money being wasted by government bureaucrats on programs
and services they don’t want The message has reached
Washington and every politician running for office this year is
trying to deal with it. It is not as easy as it sounds
Congressman Turnstyle visited his home district over the
weekend and returned on Monday more perplexed than ever
Almost everyone I talked to agreed with Proposition 13," he
told me "They said 1 better pay attention or I’d be out of a job
in November."
"I can believe that I said Did anyone have any
suggestions as to where you could cut the budget? '
"Yes and no A lot of people said they were sick of all the
pork barrel legislation going on in Congress I thought I got the
message, but then the question of the new flood control dam for
my district came up and they asked me when it was going to be
built I told them it might not be built if we had to tighten our
belts and they said if I didn’t have enough influence on the Hill
to get one lousy dam for the district they would find somebody
w ho could "
Most people get very angry when they cant get a new
dam lagreed ‘What else did they ask you about?"
They said they heard that the Defense Department was
Most people
get very angry
when they can't get
a new dam
Buchwaid
closing the Iroquois Torpedo Factory which employs 3 000
people
"I told them the rumor was true It was part of the U.S. Navy
economy drive I explained that I had talked to the top defense
people about it, but was told the Navy didn’t have enough old
submarines that carried torpedos any more "
"What did your constituents say to that ?"
They said it was my job to see that the Navy built enough
old submarines to carry torpedos They said if the torpedo
factory shut down I could kiss my re-election goodbye "
"You must have had a fun weekend
‘Then Turnstyle said, the question of athletics came up
Because of the taxpayers’ revolt it seems that most of the high
schools in my district are going to have to eliminate their
football and basketball teams If there is me thing the people
in my district will not tolerate it’s the abolition of high school
football and basketball games They want me to get a federal
grant for the sports programs to be continued if the high
schools have to shut down "
"Do you think you can?"
"They said I’d better if 1 wanted to return to Washington
next year "
Didn't anyone tell you what government programs they
wanted cut so they wouldn't have to pay so much taxes?"
They said they saw no reason why they should bail out New
York City At the same time Quagmire, the largest city in my
district warned me that if I didn t get federal funds for the new
hospital, which is only half finished, there was no sense in me
coming back to campaign because I’d just be wasting my
time "
"At least they're toiling it like it is"
The farmers want me to vote for higher price supports, the
unions want more protection against health hazards, the
builders want federally guaranteed loans, and everyone is
screaming because the government isn't doing enough to help
them pay tuition to send their kids to college
"So what kind of message did you get out of all this?"
Anyone who runs for public office in 1978 ought to have his
head examined even if the taxpayers say they won't pay for
it."
Death in the sky:-------------
Drunken pilots endanger air travelers
By JACK ANDERSON hours before s flight But his sobriety cant
Syndicated Columnist prevent a martini loaded private flier from
A drunken driver can lose his license and be careening into an airliner
ruledoff the highways as a public menace Yet Yet the Federal Aviation Administration is
the same individual can go to an airport take prohibited by law from using a computer bank
off at the controls of a private plane and en- in the Transportation Department which
danger the lives of thousands of unsuspecting would quickly identify licensed pilots who have
air travelers been convicted of drunken driving
The appalling fact is that the federal Our reporter Murray Waas has had access to
regulators are denied access to records that FAA investigative reports and confidential law
would permit them to identify and ground enforcement files, which underscore the
alcoholic pilots who have been declared unfit to seriousness of the alcoholic in the air Here are
drive a car An estimated 12,500 pilots have had some crashes that might have been prevented
their automobile permits suspended or revoked had the FAA known in advance of the pilot’s
for drunken driving, yet they still possess drunk driving record
licenses to fly small planes _ A pilot and passenger took off from a
We have found no record of a major air southern California airport and crashed near
disaster that was caused by a pilot flying while Palm Springs The pilot was killed instantly,
he was liquored up But pilot drunkenness was his companion seriously injured An autopsy
involved in more than 250 small-plane crashes showed the pilot was heavily intoxicated,
medI in these crashes the set that the - wreckage "s bottle of Seagram s V.O. whiskey:
eidents were unspectacular made them, along with * numerous cans of Coors beer " The
• commercial airline pilot is carefully dead flier had been arrested three times for
policed to prevent his drinking for at least M drunk driving offenses and had lost his driver s
license four rimes
- A Texan and two friends took off after
downing several rounds of drinks The plane
crashed killing all three in a blazing inferno
The licensed pilot at ’he controls had
previously been arrested for drunk driving on
’he highway
— A Californian, flying while drunk, crashed
his plane killing two passengers and seriously
injuring himself Investigation showed he had
been barred from driving a car at the time His
driving permit had been revoked after his
second conviction for drunken driving
— A Texan took two friends on a Sunday
pleasure jaunt Shortly after takeoff, the plane
dived into a drainage ditch injuring all three
Police found the pilot and one passenger were
intoxicated The pilot's record showed four
arrests for drunk driving An FAA in-
vestigative report showed he had intended to
fly his friends over downtown Galveston An
investigator told us Had they been flying
over the city when they crashed, the result
could have been a major disaster
Pilot drunkenness
was involved in
more than 250
small-plane crashes
the last five years
the British expatriate charged
Anderson
Amin’s new adviser
Secret documents show that a mysterious
British mercenary has become a power behind
Uganda’s egomaniac Idi Amin Apparently.
Maj Bob Astles has become a special confidant
and adviser to the African dictator Although
Astles is a white man, the documents indicate
he feels secure enough to denounce Amin’s
black ministers
At one of the demonic cabinet meetings Amin
holds according to the secret minutes. Astles
upbraided cabinet officials for cheating on
their leader Astles made the charge during a
discussion of increasing coffee smuggling
During the snakepit session, Astles told one
minister to “stop your boys from smuggling
coffee," then went on to accuse others in the
room of being disloyal
They collaborate freely with all the people
abroad sell secret information, smuggle
coffee, torture people and rob during the day,"
When another Amin adviser asked Astles
about a plan to rape with the smuggling, the
major refused to divulge the details “because
he suspected that some of the cabinet ministers
were themselves involved in coffee
smuggling." according to the secret
documents
Goldberg’s retort
The communist press persistently attacked
President Carter's human rights ambassador
Arthur Goldberg as "a master of subversion"
during the recent human rights conference in
Belgrade He was singled out because of his
attempts to press the cause of thousands of
Soviet dissidents
The former Supreme Court justice refused to
become nettled at the sniping, except for one
comment he made privately to a Soviet
counterpart A meticulous grammarian,
Goldberg observed "I can be a 'subversive’
only in my own country "
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