4The Dally'Reflector, GreenvUl. N.C.W^nesday. April 17, 1974

Mixed Views Over Experiment Sadat

" The North Carolina General Assembly has completed its first experiment with annual sessions and so far the results are mixed.

Reaction Again Miscalculated

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The most ominous aspect of the historic events that sent a congressional subpoena to the WTiite House last week was the surprise genuinely felt by President Nixon and his lieutenants over Republican outrage within the House Judiciary Committee.

What makes it ominous is that Nixon lawyer James St. Clairs insulting letter was dispatched to the committee despite warnings from the most important Republicans on Capitol Hilla clear signal which the White House failed to understand. All evidence indicates the White House was not trying to provoke a subpoena and certainly wanted no open break with its Republican allies. Thus, nearing the climax of his presidential crisis, Mr. Nixon is lethally miscalculating the mood of congressional Republicans.

The Nixon-St. Claire strategy, aimed at denying the Judiciary Committee key evidence it demands while retaining Republican support, collapsed disastrously because of that miscalculation. Not only did nearly all Republican committee members vote for the subpoena but serious new doubts were planted with congressional Republicans serving as the Presidents jurors.

In that sense, Mr. Nixon is paying dearly for keeping key White HoUse tape recordings from Congress. House members suspect more than ever that he has much to hide. I really havent gotten into the details of Watergate, says one senior Republican Congressman, never publicly critical of Mr. Nixon, but the

the same draft letter he had read to Rhodes. Certainly, it did not incorporate Rhodeses conciliatory suggestion.

Not surprisingly, the Senate Republican leaders liked it not at all, and Burch hurried back downtown to the WTiite House to report their complaints. A new draft was then read over the telephone to the Senate leaders. General verdict; better but not good enough. So staunch a Nixonite as Sen. John Tower of Texas felt the White House had ignored our input.

Nevertheless, that second draft was the one sent the committee anyway. For one reason, it was now early evehing of the April 9 deadline. But more important, the WTiite House was trapped in another massive failure of communications so endemic in President Nixons relations with Congress.

Based on his conversation with Burch, Rhodes was actually believed at the WTiite House to have fully approved the letter. Even more incomprehensible. Senate Republican leaders were reported in accord with the revised version. Thus, on the evening of April 9, the WTiite House believed Republican Judiciary Committee members would oppose a subpoena and that the Democratic majority consequently would not seek a vote. That meant the President had successfully withheld information from the committee without losing support.

Therefore, Mr. Nixon was no more prepared for the angry, spontaneous outburst from Republican members than he had been for the reaction to the Oct. 20 Saturday night massacre. The Republicans were offended not only by St. Clairs stalling but by his offensive.

President is whittling away at '^^condescending language the presumption of his in- With their ottburst, tThe

nocence.

The White House desire to prevent such conclusions is obvious from activities of newly arrived presidential counselor Dean Burch, now Mr. Nixons chief Watergate emissary to the Republicans, on April 9the deadline set by the House Judiciary Committee for a White House reply to its demands for evidence. Burch worked hard that day to secure Mr. Nixons Republican flank in advance of his refusal to supply all the evidence requested.

Early that afternoon, Burch telephoned Rep. John Rhodes of Arizona, House minority leader, in Phoenix and read him a draft of St. Clairs letter. Rhodes had no time for a long discussion but thought he made this clear: the letter as written would cause trouble. So, Rhodes suggested, why not propose that St. Clair and John Doar, the committees impeachment counsel, determine jointly the relevance of material requested by Doar?

But a few hours later when Burch went to Capitol Hill to meet Senate Republican leaders (at his request), he carried with him essentially

warning message at last bt through to the WTiite House. Despite St. Clairs eleventh-hour attempt at compromise the next morning, it was obvious that Republicans would support a subpoena.

Typically, there is little self<riticism at the WTiite House. Presidential lieutenants are furious at leaderless Republicans in Congress, castigating them for meekly following the bell cowscounsel Doar and Rep. Peter Rodino of New Jersey, the Democratic committee chairman. At the Nixon WTiite House, Congress is always wrong. -

Nobody believes the President will obey the subpoena in full. Some Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are demanding a contempt of Congress resolution. The more thoughtful bipartisan majority, however, is wisely intent on avoiding such a detour and concentrating on the impeachment proceedings, even without all the evidence butthanks to White House miscalculationswith less Republican support in Congress for President Nixon than ever before.

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Actually, the 1974 session was a continuation of the 1973 session and the General Assembly finally adjourned the double session last week. Now the lawmakers go out to campaign for re>election-^ those who decided they wanted to come backand a new General Assembly will gather in Raleigh next January.

There were many complaints raised. Many law makers reported they did not have time to go to Raleigh each year and also attend study commission meetings during the off months. There was a contention that annual sessions would force many people to give up the idea of serving in the General Assembly. Therp was also the theory that annual sessions would lead to full time and full salaried law makers and thus make the representatives even less accessible to the people.

A step in that direction might have come in the closing hours of this session when the legislators voted that |heir salaries be doubled.

The General Assembly moved through a nundiber of complicated problems during this off year, not always solving them. But from the stand point of what was taken up, the off year session hardly differed from the regular sessions.

lliere have been opinions offered that if the annual sessions are to continue it might be best to limit the off year one to budget considerations. That might be a wise move.

With the rate of inflation and rapidly changing times, it might be best if North Carolina budgets were made up annually. That will require that the General Assembly meet annually, but the lawmakers dont necessarily have to take up a variety of items during the off year meeting.

A Poorer Prospect Of Nuclear Limitations

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says there will not be a permanent agreement this year on nuclear arms limitation with the Soviet Union.

It is regrettable that this seems to be the picture at this time. Hopefully talks will continue and some agreement can be reached between the two nuclear powers by next year. It could reduce the financial strain for both nations.

Effort At Tax Cut Not Ended

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By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGHThe 1974 session of the General Assembly beat down several efforts to cut taxes.

But the battle is not over, the chairman of the House Finanace Committee is vowing.

We will be back down here in 1975, and you will have another $100 million surplus in the states income.

And, another drive to reduce taxes, says Liston B. Ramsey, D-Madison, chairman of the powerful committee made up of half the members of the assembly and charged with raising money. The other half serve on Appropriationswhere the spending decisions are made.

Ramsey blamed some members of the Senatenot all of them for blocking tax-cut measures in this session.

He predicted that a new drive will take place and the bill will be introduced early next year. If no one else does itI shall, Ramsey said.

Another Short

He said the measure will probably be aimed at the inventory tax on manufacturers and retailers, coupled with a reduction in state income taxes for people earning less than $12,000 per year.

The House of Representatives this year passed a measure removing the inventory tax, and eliminating income taxes on extremely low incomes. The Senate did not go along.

A last gasp effort to remove the sales tax on food also met stubborn opposition on both sides of the legislature.

The problem boils down to efforts by the House to cut taxes defeated in a Senate which has a majority much more generous with the taxpayers money than the

House. . .and the 1975 session should find the assembly being much more conservative with the taxpayers money than this session was, Ramsey said.

That loose hand with the money is creating alarm among people throughout the state at the pace at which the state government is growing.

We are adding layer after layer of bureaucrats to state government.

The general fund budget has more than doubled in three years, and of course the bulk of that is attributable to growth of the bureaucracy, Ramsey maintains.

He noted that in 1973 the state appropriated money to add 8,600 new employes to the state payrolls; another 5,000 were funded in 1974.

And less than one-third of the 13,500 new employes in two years are connected with public educationso it isnt true that the expansion was created by need for more teachers, Ramsey said.

Big Spenders

The present administration of Gov. James E. Holshoqser is the most free-spending administration I have ever served withhe is the fourth governor Ive worked with, and the most free-spending, Ramsey said.

Ramsey is a retired retailer who specialized in building supplies. He faces opposition in the elections in November, but said if he wins, he hopes to continue serving as chairman of the F'inance Committeebut has no guarantees of that.

Between now and the 1975 session, he is serving as chairman of a study group looking into three finance areas: licensing fees for trucks, income from whiskey sales, and special licenses.

He thinks this kind of study between sessions is helpful, (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

CHRISTIANITY BY EXAMPLE

During the late nineteenth century the mission board of one of our churches sent a husband and wife to Persia (today Iran), as its missionary representatives. Moreover, it was very difficult to teach Christianity privately because the government ^ould not even allow them to make their , home into a school.

Under these circumstances the mission board instructed the couple in Persia merely to live a simple, Christian life among the people. They were

to demonstrate the value of the CTiristian life among the people. They were to demonstrate the value of the Christian life not by the Bible or by Theology, but simply by the way they lived. They were to teach by what they did.

They were so successful in this unusual type of ministry that today the Christian church is welt established in Iran and on good terms with the Mqslim government. Emerson was right when he said that what we are speaks louder than what w^ say.

By Elisha Douglass

By ART BUCHWALD

Adieu To Energy Crisis

WASHINGTONThree moving men walked into the office of the Energy Crisis and started taking down the pictures and the graphs.

What are you guys doing? The Energy Crisis asked. ,

We have orders to move all your stuff out. Theyre moving another Crisis into this office.

But I just got here, the Energy Crisis protested.

Dont talk to us. We just do what they tell us.

The Energy Crisis ran across the street to the White House.

Im the Energy Crisis, he told the guard at the gate, and I have to see the President right away.

The guard telephoned the Presidents office: Rose

Mary, I have some nut out here who says hes the Energy Crisis and he has to see the President. . .Thats what I thought.

The guard said, The President cant see you, and his secretary says if you have any problems to take them up with his Counselor for National Crises in the Executive Office Building. Heres a pass. Give it back to me when you come out.

The Energy Crisis went to the office written on the pass. He was kept waiting for two hours. Finally the secretary said he could go in.

The counselor hardly looked up. Sit down and make it short, he said.

Why am I being moved out of my office? the Energy Crisis demanded.

You want it straight? We dont need you any more. Youre washed up. Get lost. But only a few months ago the President said I was the most important issue of the decade. He said I would be here through the 80s. I moved my family to Washington. I gave up a good job with Consolidated EMison and a pension. How can you suddenly decide Im not needed any mofe?

ART

/ BUCHWALD

Other Editors Say Pained By Budget

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

President Richard Nixon has few supporters as loyal as Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.

Senator Helms has defended the President at times and in places where it has not been p<^ular to do so.

But the junior senator from North Carolina parts ways with the President on the administrations $304-billion budget.

Helms has struggled in his first year in office to restrain federal spending, to force the government to balance its budget.

He came closer to succeeding than many expected. But in the end, his efforts were ^defeated.

Helms knows that we cannot ecpnomize by simply reducing spending in other states and in some one elses congressional district.

He has stood up for reducing spending on pork barrel projects in his own state. It was unpopular at home to do so. There are times when you have to bite the bullet and do it, explained Helms.

The Presidents $304-billion budget will require a lot of bullet-biting if members of congress are going to bring it down to manageable limits.

Arl election year which has almost every incumbent trembling over his own prospects at the polls is an unlikely time to expect congressmen to be cutting down on programs tjiat would pump more money into their own districts.

But it must be done.

Senator Barry Goldwater, another of the Presidents loyalists, used some of his strongest language the other day in denouncing the administrations massive budget proposal.

It grieves me that the stern fiscal discipline which characterized last years budget has become this years dead horse. It discourages me to see a Republican administration suggesting enlargement of a federal bureaucracy already so bloated it feeds on itself and threatens to destroy the nation, said Goldwater.

The counselor said, You served a purpose. You took peoples minds off other crises. But we cant keep you around forever. The American people dont like you, and youre going to have to be sacrificed for political expediency.

But dont you understand? Nothings changed. Were going to run out of oil and fossil fuels if we dont have a strong conservation program. Look Ive worked out a'plan. . . .

Were not interested in your plans. If we run out of gas, we run out of gas, but there is no sense worrying everybody about it.Whydont you just admit you dont have what it takes to be a good crisis and leave quietly? What about the Arabs? Suppose they put their boycott on again? Then where are you?

The counselor yawned, You really are a bore. Cant you get it through your head this country will not stand for an Energy Crisis? When people had to wait in line for gasoline we almost had a revolution on our hands. We have a tough election coming up this fall in Congress, and if you were still around in November we could lose everything. Youre nothing but bad news.

But dont you see what youre doing to me? A lot of (Continued on page 5)

Fears

Soviet

By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Sj^cial Correspondent

The Russians act as if they suspect theyve been had by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and that can make them ^tougher to deal with in the .search for an over-all Middle F]ast settlement.

Moscow was never very happy in its relationship with Sadat's predecessor, Gafnal Abdel Nasser. But it is even more irked with the man who assumed Nassers mantle in 1970.

This irritation has been increasing ever since the October war. Now, if Secretary of State JHenry A. Kissinger seems to run into mounting difficulties trying to bring about a military disengagement on the Syrian-Israeli front, its a good bet Soviet pique has something to do with it.

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko has been trying to counter Kissingers shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, and Syria is the obvious route. The Kremlin wantsbadly to shift attention away from Kissingers activities to an unwieldy Geneva conference where the Russians can be more visible.

Sadat irked Moscow by failing to go along with that idea. But he" had annoyed the Russians ever since October, when he failed to consult them on his war plans. He also:

Neglected to confide in his Russian allies before agreeing to Kissingers disengagement proposals.

Ignored a Soviet proposal that Russian and American officers sit in on the disengagement talks between Egypt and Israel;

Won majority backing for his policy from an Arab summit in Algiers.

Ignored Soviet advice and successfully campaigned for suspension of the Arab oil embargo against the United States.

In a telecast this month retorted testily to Soviet complaints and accused Moscow of having opposed the October war and having been niggardly with arms help. At the same (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

April 17.1934 Dr. Herbert ReRarker, head of the Department of Mathematics and Dean of men at East Carolina Teachers College was elected president of the Rotary Club at a meeting last night. He succeeds K. W. Cobb, whose term expires in July.

Carl Adams, also a member of the college faculty, was elected vice-president. J. C. Gaskins was re-elected secretary and treasurer.

Completion of the community building at Grifton has been approved by the State Rural-Urban Relief administration, which is taking over projects started by the CWA here several months ago.

Actual resumption of construction work got underway yesterday and work will be rushed to completion. The Grifton building will cost about $8,(K)0and will be one of the finest in the state erected under the emergency relief program.

Susan Price

Losing Faith In Profit Ethics

By JOHN CUNNIFF AF Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) The outcry against those big oil company pr(Mfits illustrates the public doubts about the established ethics and goals of business and the slow, frustrating search for something new.

Isnt it the goal of business to make money? Every last nickel it can earn within the law? Until the game rules are changed it can be argued that to do so is the responsibility of corporate officers to shareholders.

But off and on for the past few decades the country has showed little faith in that philosphy. During the past weekend Commerce Secretary Frederick Dent said;

If everyone rushes to grab,

every fast nickel, the inflation fires will be ignited anew and there will be a certain and volatile reaction from Congress and the people.

Dent was referring to the removal of Phase 4 price restraints April 30, but neither he nor anyone else has declared what should be the new criterion 'of corporate performance. If not profits, what?

One of the problems, it seems, is bigness itself. Another is shortages.

Bigness has long been feared in the> United States because of the dangers of mcmopoly. But is it possible for small companies to compete intenationally with the European and Japanese giants? Unlikely.

Is it fair for a company to profit from shortages? The old supply-demand law is that prices rise when demand exceeds supply. But can it apply in an age of pervasive and critical shortages?

A curious, shortage-related problem involves the dichotomy of thought that must be assumed by some corporate officers, such as in oil companies and utilities, in telling customers not to buy their product.

If it isnt the duty of a company to sell as much as it can and make as much profit as it can, then what is its duty? TTie need for an answer is pressing; forthcoming, it-would relieve much confusion.

Various businessmen, government officials, academecians and others

have probed this endlessly deep question, but a consensus hasnt yet been developed. What agreement there is appears to be this:

A corporations duty is to make money for stockholders and workers but only if in the process it can also be a good corporate citizen.

The requirement isnt that it merely operate within the law, in regard to ecology and fair wages and working conditions, but that it promote the good of the community In ways that arent immediately remunerative.

That is, the structure of the corporation can be called upon for more than profits and wages; it can also Improve health, solve urban problems, provide ediKatlon, offer retirement security.

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