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JUNE}2, 1973, THE BOSTON PHOENIX

Owen /lade’s Need to Know

Q. I’ve been chasing Morgan Memorial, Salvation Army and used book-store copies of Upton Sinclair’s Lanny Budd novels on the rise of Fascism abroad and at home for over a year and I’m currently reading A World to Win (1946) on 1940. Can you get the sequence in order for me, and the years each novel occurs? What’s the last one? — Bill Costley, Cambridge.

A. From 1940 to 1949, Sinclair published a Lanny Budd novel an- nually. Of the tenth (O Shepherd Speak) he said that he hoped it “will be the last.” The world was still imperfect and so in 1953 Sinclair published The Return of Lanny Budd — absolutely the last. In order of publication the books are: World’s End, covering 1913-1919; Between Two Worlds, the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 until the crash of 1929; Dragon’s Teeth, 1930 to 1934; Wide is the Gate, October, 1934 until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (about late 1936 or early 1937); Presidential Agent, summer of 1937 until the Munich Agreement of 1938; Dragon Harvest, beginning of 1939 until the German entry into Paris, June, 1940; World to Win, midsummer 1940 to 1942; Presidential Mission, spring of 1942%o spring of 1943; One Clear Call, invasion of Sici- ly in 1943 until FDR’s re-election in 1944; O Shepherd Speak, 1944, ending with Lanny in Russia talking with Stalin and then returning to report on the interview to Truman; The Return of Lanny Budd, October, 1946 until 1949. If you don’t want to buy them all, the Boston Public Library has the series (or most of it, anyway). Go to the first floor of the new building, find the hard cover literature section. Sinclair’s novels are all filed under PZ.36167 (then first three letters of. the title).

Q. I heard some story about mosquitoes being used as a weapon by some dictatorship. What’s the story, Owen? Is that possible? — Sam Ulrich, Medford.

A. Ah, Sam, with a little imagination, anything can be turned into a weapon. Gil Fernandez, the Commander of the Philippines government forces recently ordered a halt to anti-malarial spray- ing on Tawitawi, an island 125 miles southwest of Zamboanga in the Philippines, presently held by guerrilla liberation forces. The rationale is that if spraying stops, malarial mosquitoes will begin breeding again and, as Fernandez so humanly said, “sooner or later, the rebels will be too weak to fight.”

Confidential to P.A. of Boston —

I assume yours is a serious question. Well, I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, but I really can’t help you. The only advice I can give you is either put a classified ad in the Phoenix or ask him out yourself one morning. (Now please, please, other faithful readers — don’t all ask me to solve your personal problems. I really am not able to. And as long as I’m on the subject of my abilities and lack thereof, I just can’t answer your letters individually. My teaching commitments are too heavy to allow me the time to send out answers and my research always comes first, anyway.) — Prof. Slade

Reader’s Department

Dear Owen,

You really fell down about bicycling to the Cape. A friend of mine did it last week and tried to take her bike on the MTA. No go, I called up the general counsel’s office for an explanation and they said that if someone happened to be hurt by it, the MTA would be liable so their insurance company won’t allow it..They even have rules about it. Number 27(b) prohibits things that “may be unsafe or inconvenient to other passengers” and 24 says that includes bikes (and pets, too.).

Also, Route 1 doesn’t go anywhere near the Cape; it goes to Providence. However, 3A and 6A do and my friend says that they were beautiful. .

Roger Sweeny, Cambridge. Well, at least she had a good time proving me wrong. — Owen.

Want the facts? Have something you need to know? Write: Owen Slade c/o Boston Phoenix, 1108 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 02215.

AGAINST SEPARATISM

To the Editor:

In regards to the article, “Gay — Straight Relations Among. Feminists” by Sally Grier and Karen Lindsey. The Straight feminist movement is dead. The Gay feminist movement is dead. The Gay male movement is dead. All radical, liberal, and conservative political movements are dead. All radical, liberal, and conservative spiritual movements are dead. In fact, any group or movement (black, white, yellow, or red) that tries to justify its separate existence on this planet is doom- ed to failure.

When are we going to learn that we cannot separate life into categories of politics, religion, culture, art, science, straight, gay, etc., and expect to ever have harmony. (Life is a whole). Karen Lindsey said, ‘‘We have trapped ourselves in a vicious circle of oppressiveness, at a time when we are most vulnerable, when we need above all to respect each woman’s struggle towards her selfhood.” Very true, but what about the “selfhood” of everyone else on the planet? When you come to realize who your real ‘self is, maybe, just maybe, you will find it neither male or female but both.

I am not against organization, but am against organizations that, under unconscious ig- norance, think they are separate from the rest of life. There are many different parts to your body — but it is all one body. There are many different bodies — but it is all one humanity. Stop thinking of yourself as separate. Only then will true peace and harmony come.

George Lavoie West Springfield, Mass.

_ THANKS FOR POETRY

To the Editor: ~

I am writing to thank you for the poetry I have read in the Phoenix. Since I write poetry myself, I am naturally interested in reading it. So I appreciate the regularity with which it appears, as well as its generally high quality.

I have felt especially enthusiastic when occasionally I have come across a half-page of poetry, laid out tastefully, show- ing the importance the Phoenix places on it. Your poetry editor has done a fine job, and I hope to see more and more space for poetry in your paper.

Ruth Lepson Cambridge

Letters

TAX ABATEMENTS

To the Editor:

The Boston League of Women Voters notes with interest Tom Sheehan’s story (Boston Phoenix, 5/22/73) “The Untold Story of Tax Abatements.” es- pecially his mention of the Assessing Department of the City of Boston.

The Boston League of Women Voters Tax Committee is in- volved in a 2-year study of alter- natives to the property tax. We have thoroughly studied the Jacobs Report (June 1971) on Boston’s Assessing Department.

We wholeheartedly agree with its findings that “there is no equity in Boston under the current system of assessments, abatements and exemptions.”

We wrote to Mayor White February 13, 1973, to com- municate our concern that changes, especially in assessing practices and reorganization of the Department, be im- plemented under his authority.

He replied on March 1 that “much has been done in the Assessing Department to correct some of the abuses that were mentioned in the original Jacob

Survey. At the next meeting of

the Assessing Committee I will take up the question of refiling the basic reorganization plan, if refiling is necessary. In reference to the Assessing practices, I am convinced and I am sure that the Committee is doing a creditable job at the present time. Of course, there are always changes that can be made that will make the department more efficient, but unfortunately the City Council must act before these changes can be incorporated.”

A similar letter to Assessing Commissioner Theodore An- zalone has gone unanswered.

As we understand the B.A.C. Ordinance it would have been to 1) establish the Dept. along functional lines with ad- ministrative changes and im- proved information system; 2) change the Appraisal apparatus of real and personal property; 3) put the abatement Division un- der the chairman of the board of review as a more administrative than judicial operation.

The nowdead Ordinance call- ed for a new non-Civil Service post of deputy commissioner to deal with internal matters, i.e. coordinate the more than 50 per- sons now reporting directly to

Anzalone. The salary would be around $18,000 up $20,000, The two present associate assessing commissioners would head up an appraisal and an administrative function of the dept.

The Board of Review, which gives abatements, would have been enlarged to include one per- ‘son in the appraisal division, a second member from the professional or managerial staff of any division of the depart- ment; and a citizen member on a per diem basis with a background in brokerage, mortgage lending or manage- ment who would be appointed by the Mayor after consultation with the Boston Bar Ass’n. and the Greater Boston Ch. of

-Commerce and Gtr. Boston R.E. Board.

Changes that could be made without Ordinance would in- clude a receptionist on duty with list of abatements applied for and granted during the previous week, eliminating the present 2- 3 month wait.

The file room was locked as of last summer, for improved security. The City is upgrading its data processing; ultimately all data will be on computer tape under a program financed through the BRA to give Land Info Data (LID) instantly on any property.

In addition fundamental changes are needed at the State level to insure uniform assessing practices. The Boston and Massachusetts League of Women Voters support strengthened and improved assessment procedures at both state and local level; state publication of an up-to-date manual of guidelines; state. es- tablished qualification stan- dards for state & local assessors.

We are disheartened to learn that nothing is being done in the -way of an equalization and valuation program despite two 10-taxpayers’ suits.

We understand that the Assessing Department seems primarily concerned with getting out the tax bills.

Furthermore, the Boston Assessing Committee feels it has finished the task assigned to it by the Mayor. It and we — the Tax Committee of the Boston League of Women Voters — feel it is up to the Administration to follow through on recommen- dations made by the Studies it commissioned.

Louise A. Bonar, Chairperson; Tax Commission Boston League of Women Voters

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Through Politcs

Watergate: Who’s Fooling Us About What Today : ?

‘By Carl Oglesby “Plausible denial” is a term from the spybook which Watergate has taught us to know means that if you want to hide what you are doing, you must make it possible for people not to see you doing it. The straight media must have walked

dozen times, but I have yet to see them apply the plain implication of it, that plausibility is the stuff of deception, to their current pictures of reality. Since they know on principle and by ex- perience that we get deceived all the time, why do they not ask as a matter of routine skepticism who might be fooling us about what today?

_ Two recent Watergate developments in particular bring this to mind, one in- volving the death of Dorothy Hunt and the other the relationship between

us through this vertiginous concept a °

Fensterwald and McCord. Skolnick & the Post

The “theory of prosecution” of a private investigator from Chicago, Sher- man Skolnick, is that the crash last December at Chicago’s Midway airport of United 553 inbound from Washington was the result of foul play. Among the crash victims were Dorothy Hunt, wife of Howard, Michele Clark of CBS, said to be in pursuit of a Watergate angle, and lawyers of a pipeline company, Northern Natural Gas, locked in a vast struggle with the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Through his agent Alex Bottos, Skolnick claims to know that the crash was the work of one Sarelli gang, which he says was peddling on the underworld market within two days of the crash (a) two million dollars

in American Express money orders he says D. Hunt was carrying plus (b) the so-called Mitchell documents carried by the gas lawyers, worth five million for their use in blackmailing the ad- ministration. (See Phoenix 5/15.)

This story has been circulated exten- sively in the counterpress for several months, but until recently the straight- press wouldn’t touch it. On May 26 the Times ran its first Skolick story, a basically fair story with a good summary of the pros and cons. Then a week later in a two-part story written from Chicago by Ronald Kessler, the redoubtable Washington Post, acting as usual as though it had author’s rights in “the Watergate story,” recognized Skolnick all at once (Kessler’s two parts were Saturday and Sunday frontpage stories), but only the more conclusively

to destroy his false theories of murder and sabotage in high places.

Kessler’s technique, that of a bad lawyer, is to summarize a Skolnick claim from its weakest side and to leave his more powerful arguments out altogether. He has facts and he bloodies Skolnick on several points of substance; but he doesn’t even begin to blow him away.

The recorders. Airliners like the Boe- ing 737 which crashed in low visibility a mile and a half short of the runway last December 8 carry two recorders specifically designed and mounted to survive a crash and help investigators piece together its causes, not indeed to keep them from arising again, but to have a solid technical basis for litigating the civil suits that always-follow. [Please turn to page 21]

The BRA’s Fenway Plan: Pennies for Heaven

By Sharon Basco

Back in 1965 when the Boston Redevelopment Authority proposed to the Fenway everything seemed right. It was a good match. BRA could get federal and

state money to fix up the area, and in turn

the Fenway came with a hearty dowry of homey, sturdy buildings, small shops and businesses, trees, even small parks.

BRA went to Uncle Sam for Fenway’s hand and was given smiling approval. It wasn’t until later that the Mother Church (Christian Scientist) came into the pic- ture, disapproving of the original vows, dealing with the BRA, and eventually causing alienation of affection between the newlyweds.

Lately the Fenway has taken to washing her children in Mother Church’s reflecting pool in protest. Fenway calls out in anger to the BRA and the Christian Science church that luxury housing has been built on parcels scheduled for low and moderate housing. Small businessmen are being driven out — 70 are already gone — and replaced with ex- pensive, chain-type establishments. The architectural integrity of the neighborhood is broken as modern highrises mingle with brick townhouses. The composition of a neighborhood once diverse and community-oriented is dis- jointed when its neighbors are forced away to search for housing they can af- ford.

It all started right before Christmas in 1965. The BRA vowed before City Council that they would provide for relocation of residents and businesses in the area, and would rehabilitate buildings rather than destroy neighborhoods that could be sav- ed. BRA promised 3,500 new low to moderate housing rental units in 1965. Only 324 have been occupied thus far, and BRA has changed the unit figure goal to 2,654, of which only 1,552 will be financed under low or moderate income federal financing programs.

The Mother Church plays a lead in this neighborhood drama, with her holdings throughout the Fenway area. Before city council the Mother Church testified that a “fitting” neighborhood should be provided surrounding the church’s Little Vatican (not her term) and proceeded to make her way around the urban renewal plans. Mother Church, for example, plans to evict 17 stores and 54 families of apart- ment dwellers from 220 to 282 of Massachusetts Avenue. The buildings will be torn down, and a front lawn for the church will grace the area.

Small businessmen fear BRA and Mother Church most. They’ve heard goodly promises of relocation, and for 70 of the 137 merchants in the Fenway area, those promises haven’t meant much.

BRA vowed to Fenway that merchants “would be relocated in the area, taking every reasonable step to alleviate hardship to these businesses,” allowing

every business to remain in the area.

What BRA forgot to tell the 137 merchants was that if they wanted to stay they’d have to be willing to pay four times as much for rental space.

Local shop-keepers have first bids on space in Church Park, the eleven story structure in the 200 block of Massachusetts Avenue. But “a small-

Fenway Tenants Stage Funeral March Outside Christian Science Church

Vicki Lawrence photo

business individual, working for a week’s pay,” (as classified by one Mass. Ave. shop-owner) cannot afford $8.50 to $10.50 per square foot a month instead of the $2.50 to $3.50 rents in the area.

“We can’t afford to quadruple our

costs,” the shop-owner said. “Naturally -

the type of merchants we have here aren’t

_ chain stores or company-owned stores.

We’re small merchants.

“This re-location is a lot of bunk! None of us can afford it.”

The same goes for the*heighbors. They get first jab at the Church Park luxury apartments that Max Wasserman built on Mother Church’s land. But for Fenway residents, with a median family income of less than $3,000 (compared to 4 city average of over $7,000), Church Park is just another empty promise. The rents are way out of Fenwayians reach at $217 to $290 for a one bedroom and $310 to $410 for a two bedroom. Affordable housing is not all that’s lost. Their neighborhood would remain livable for them, residents were told; as BRA urged that construction and rehabilitation be “compatible with the original layout and structural character of the buildings. ”

Karla Johnson, leader in the Fenway Interagency Group (FIG), said she asked David Baker (assistant director for the Fenway Urban Renewal Project) why some buildings on Edgerly Road were be- ing torn down rather than rehabilitated in character with the neighborhood.

“These are solid old buildings,’ Ms. Johnson told Baker. ““Why can’t we save them?”

“We have to tear down these buildings,’”’ came the reply from Baker. “Because it wouldn’t look right to have a three story brick building next to an eleven story cement building.”

More promises from ’65 included “... provision of adequate park and

recreational areas and facilities, ... with special consideration for the health, safe- ty and welfare of children residing in the project area.”

Children of the Fenway wouldn’t have been swimming in the reflecting pool late Wednesday if this promise, in any part, had been kept. Residents have been frustrated with BRA’s one feeble attempt at a playground: a small unaccessible area deep in the no-man’s land Back Bay Fens. The BRA leased a plot of land to the Edgerly Road Playground Committee, but this plot will be included in the site for Church Park II, a twin to the first eleven story luxury building, and similar- ly useless and unaffordable to ) the residents of Fenway.

Fenway kids were swimming in the reflecting pool last week to demonstrate to the members of the Christian Science Church (many of whom were milling around enjoying the sunshine after a long day. of sessions at the church’s inter- national annual convention) that it’s the children of the neighborhood who suffer when great portions of land are used for an unusable pool. But few seemed in- terested in finding out why the kids were in the pool — a dip seemed a natural enough impulse, and the pool did, after all, look inviting. One Christian Science lady did come by and tell FIG members that she thinks the church leaders were sort of roped into “this real estate stuff” and that they’d get out of it “‘as soon as they could.” FIG people seemed unim-

pressed. But then, most. people seemed -

unimpressed with the whole week’s FIG- sponsored activities.

Scheduled to coincide with the Mother Church’s meetings were: two perfor-

-mances of a home-spun play about Chris-

tian Science Urban Renewal, (written and acted .by Fenway residents), plus the “children’s swim event”’ in the reflecting

pool, and a funeral service to mourn the loss of friends, neighbors, theaters, businesses and affordable housing from the Fenway.

The funeral, a rain-soaked Tuesday evening affair, began with a procession down St. Stephen Street of 40 black- robed residents with an age span of four generations. They walked for about a half hour around the neighborhood, and through the Mother Church’s grounds, carrying ‘signs (“‘We mourn the loss of Huntington Ave. residences,” of Hutchin- son’s Market, McMahon-Durward Hardware, and many more stores and friends). A great black coffin was lugged along near the head of the line, and Pauline Swift, a sixtyish woman with shoulder length grey hair, brought up the end of the ranks, carrying a banner that read ‘“‘We mourn the loss of the Uptown and Fine Arts Theaters.”

“I remember the first time I went to the Fine Arts Theater. It was about 1934 and the picture was Robert Flaherty’s ‘Man of Aaron.” It was the first theater in the city that had foreign pictures,” Ms. Swift said.

The mourners gathered in a circle out- side the steps of the Mother Church. Here church officials fluttered around the robed group, hearing nothing of the liturgy around the casket (the electric megaphone was ineffective) but anxious to flush their late arrivals away from the coffin and into the meetings. The rain hadn’t subsided.

“O God, who can’t read or write, who is on welfare and who is treated like gar- bage; Help us to know you.” -

Armbanded guards on the steps of the Mother Church groaned. This was not what they had in mind for the second night of the annual meeting.

“O God, whose job at Hutchinson’s [Please turn to page 18]

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Steve Washington

Steve Washington will be get- ting a job at the Boston City Hospital -— but it won’t be his old job.

Last week, the Board of Trustees of the hospital voted to direct the hospital’s personnel department to offer him employ- ment.

Specifically, the Board, which

‘voted in a short executive ses-

sion, directed that “the details of such employment shall be work- ed out between Mr. Kountze and Mr. Washington.” Mr. Kountze is Wallace Kountze, Deputy Commissioner of personnel at BCH.

After a meeting with Kountze, Washington reported, “They offered me a lab technician’s job at $141 a week. That’s about $105 take home pay. I just can’t support my family on that. I told Kountze that the only thing I'd accept would be an ad-

ministrative position. We're go-

ing to meet again to discuss it.” Washington, who worked as a lab technician for five years, said that the hospital did not offer him any back pay. “They just see me as a desperate man who will take any kind of job they offer. But I know I have some bargaining power now.”

Washington, who owes “from $4,000 - $6,000” in legal fees, was suspended Dec. 5 from his posi- tion as administrative assistant. on the Accident Floor, following his arrest three days earlier on an 18-month old rape warrant that the police department alleged had been lost. The arrest itself followed charges by Washington — on at least two occasions — that police officers on duty in his ward were mistreating patients.

The 30 year old Washington, whose wife works at BCH as a nurse, and who has maintained all along that he was dismissed because he took a strong position against police behavior on his floor, was found innocent of the rape charge.

Deitch Is Back

It wasn’t what one would call “big play.”’ But The Boston Globe did manage to report on page 25 Tuesday that an ar- bitrator had ruled that David Deitch be reinstated to the paper’s staff. The Globe had fired the controversial financial columnist last August “for in- subordination and contract violation.’”’ Specifically, the Globe charged that Deitch had violated the terms of his employ- ment by not getting prior per- mission before writing for other publications. Deitch, on the other hand, claimed that he had been fired because his columns were becoming a political em- barrassment to the paper.

Deitch’s dismissal triggered a number of actions by some com- munity groups, in support of Deitch’s reinstatement. A boycott of the Globe was urged by some.

Arbitrator Daniel G. MacLeod ruled that Deitch’s dismissal be reduced to a 30-day suspension and that Deitch receive back pay, less severance amounts, to September 10.

Gay Pride Week

Last week was not a par- ticularly auspicious one for Boston’s gay community. The House turned back an attempt to amend the Commonwealth’s adultery and sodomy laws, and the Fag Rag lost its printer of three previous issues. Gay leaders were undaunted, however, and continued making plans for the largest Gay Pride Week ever scheduled.

Gay Pride Week will get off to a festive start this Saturday with a parade, beginning at Copley Square, 1 p.m., and ending up on the Commons. “In the past,”

Guns & Butter

says Skip Rosenthal, grand marshal for the parade, ‘“we’ve had a march. You know, give us our rights, clenched fists and all that. This year we’re going to have a parade, just going to relax and enjoy ourselves.”

There will be bands, 1,000 gay balloons, floats, and after discus- sion with various women’s groups, it has been decided to feature a Queen of the Parade. “It’s also going to be different this year,” Skip continues, “in that we’re asking everybody to join, even some straight religious and women’s groups. In the past we’ve attracted only the type of gay person that belongs to an organized group. Thousands of others have no group affiliations, and we want them to march along, also.” Other gay groups from New England will join the Bostonians to swell the ranks. In the evening, at 9 p.m., there’ll be a dance at the Charles Street Meeting House, featuring the Witch, a women’s band from the North Shore. For further infor- mation, dial 536-6197 (evenings) or 567-5068 (days). .

During the week to come, a number of workshops are scheduled at the Charles Street Meeting House. Sunday (June 17) at 3:30 p.m., it will be a

workshop on religion; Monday at.,

8 p.m., on “gay awareness;” Tuesday at 8 p.m., separate men’s and women’s issues; Wednesday, 7 p.m. on Gay Youth and Gay relationships (couples, etc.); Thursday at 8 p.m. on politics. Other festivities will include a Cruise of Boston Harbor, next Sunday beginning at 7 p.m.; a special performance of the play, ‘Coming Out,” Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. and the Charles St. Meeting House; Fri- day, a “Night of Art and Enter- tainment” and a dance, both at the meeting house; and Satur- day, an all day Arts Festival out- side the meeting house, followed in the evening by another dance. On Sunday, the 24th, busses will leave Boston for New York, to join the Christopher Street March there.

Park Plaza

The BRA will try again with Park Plaza on Monday. On that

day, the proposed $266 million .

redevelopment project will be resubmitted for approval to the Massachusetts Department of Community Affairs.

The Park Plaza project has been rejected twice before by former Community Affairs Com- missioner Miles Mahoney who said the plan failed to meet state requirements.

Mahoney resigned after the se- cond submission and was replac- ed by Lewis Crampton.

Meanwhile, Atty. Charles

‘Mahoney, representing the Park

Square Improvement Associa- tion which opposes the project, is preparing a court case against the plan.

Falling Out

There’s been a falling out between President Nixon and William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union- Leader.

In an editorial last week, Loeb said Nixon should resign because he is “just plain incompetent.”

Loeb wrote: “You can argue anyway you want to on the matter, but looking at it from a perfectly cold-blooded, hard- headed standpoint, Mr. Nixon has destroyed his credibility and his.support, not just with the left wing but with the average

“American. They now don’t trust

him after what’s happened. They don’t have any confidence in his competence or his skill. They see him as a discredited bungler.”

Loeb noted: “By his stupidity, he has given the leftists who con- trol our communications media, and all the other radicals all over the United States, a golden op- portunity to attack not only his Administration but all the rest of us who want to make some sense in the United States.”

Out of This World

Guards have been posted at an Aurora, Texas, cemetery where the remains of a space pilot were reported to have been buried back in 1897, Zodiac News Ser- vice reports.:

Vandals have been attempting to break into the graveyard in re- cent weeks to dig up the mysterious body. Attorneys for the Aurora Cemetery Associa- tion said that they will ask for an injunction to prevent distur- bance of the graves — an injunc- tion to protect the dead.

Officials in Aurora said that the Illegal digging is being done by unknown vandals — and not

by members of the Midwest Unidentified Flying Objects Network, a group which is currently investigating the bi- zarre crash of an airship back in 1897. Texas newspapers of April, 1897, are packed with stories of the strange crash of an uniden- tified flying object. The pilot of the craft was killed, and the remains — described as ‘“‘not of this world” — were buried in the Aurora cemetery.

The Midwest U.F.O. group suspects that the crash involved an extra-terrestial spaceship — but newsman David Day of sta- tion K.F.J.Z. in Fort Worth dis- agrees. Day has conducted his own research and has discovered that a Kansas inventor applied for a patent on an early “airplane” in 1887. Day believes that the early plane — which predates the Wright brothers’ by 16 years — was the object which crashed.

Metal fragments were dis- covered recently at the suspected crash site, and they are being analyzed in laboratory tests. The U.F.O. group said it will obtain a legitimate court order to exhume the unknown body if the metal turns out to be from another planet.

River Festival

The second annual Charles River Festival will be held on Sunday, June 10 (raindate June 17). The Festival is intended to spotlight the great recreational possibilities for the river and to emphasize the needs to depollute the river, improve water quality, and to care for the life in and around the Charles.

From 11 a.m. through 5 p.m., people will recreate the Charles in all possible ways, including picnicking, biking, jogging, raf- ting, hiking, sunning, boating, fishing, and kite flying. Concerts and dramatic presentations will take place all along the river. The Festival will wind up with a 5 p.m. cleanup. The Festival will take place not only in urban Boston, but also throughout the communities which line the Charles from east to west. Events are planned to include all people.

Special activities will include a power boat parade in Boston, raft journey down the Charles, Natick fish derby, Polyarts’ Charles River Arts & Crafts Ex- position, and the Charles River Grand Prix bicycle race. A puppet show, music program, and theatre featuring the casts of Godspell, and The Proposition will take place at the Hatch Shell.

Recycling Trash

A group called Recycling for

Greater Boston, organized by Mrs. Helen Mattison, 9 South Russell Street, Beacon Hill (742- 0891) has applied to the City of Boston for permission to collect each week, by truck at the curb, all types of recyclable household trash—bottles, steel and aluminum cans, newspapers, corrugated paper, and probably other materials such as plastic which may in future be found to be recyclable. This material will be trucked directly to the appropriate recycling plants, in order that it may be put into re-use im- mediately.

There will be no expense to the City for this service, which will be self-supporting, since it is ex- pected that the proceeds of the sale of the trash will be sufficient to pay for the cost of the trucking and other expenses of collection.

Organizers believe the service will result in substantial savings to the City, by reducing the cost of refuse collection and transpor- tation, and the cost of land for dumping or incineration.

A public hearing on the proposal will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, before th Boston City Council.

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International Feminists: A Small World?

By Gill Gane

“The women of the world are uniting. never to divide again!”

That, announced NOW President Wilma Scott Heide, was the essential message of the International Feminist Planning Conference sponsored by NOW (National Organization for Women) in Cambridge over the weekend June 1-4.

Were the 250 women gathered at Lesley College indeed the women of the world?

There were close to 100 delegates from 27 countries outside the United States. Among these, Western Europe and Latin America were clearly best represented. Women also came from further-flung bastions of the western capitalist world, such as Israel and New Zealand. The ‘Communist world had meager token representation in the shape of one Hungarian and two Soviet Union delegates. India and Japan were, predic- tably, the only Asian countries represented. Two Egyptian women came, but the whole of black Africa was represented by one solitary woman from the tiny kingdom of Swaziland, which lies squeezed between South Africa and Por- tuguese Mozambique.

It was a small world.

It was not only geography that limited it. These were women of the world in another sense; a number of them seemed to be quite the Elder Stateswomen of their worlds. There were presidents, chairwomen, and directors of com- missions, boards and councils; there were lawyers, senators, editors, academics and city councillors: Only a small minority were identified as directly involved in the

new feminist movement of the ’60s and |

70s in any way.

As for the Americans, with very ow ex- ceptions these were drawn from the most conservative end of the women’s move- ment spectrum. The vast majority were NOW members; others came from the League of Women Voters, from church groups, from government agencies, from more commissions and committees on the status of women. _

In short, politically there was hardly a sign of what I know as the women’s libera- tion movement; in terms of class and power, these women were very far remov- ed indeed from the majority of women in the world.

The conference organizers declared that American participants had been “essen- tially self-invited via the feminist press”’; questioned, they denied having issued specific invitations. Yet I know at least two Boston women who were sent per- sonal invitations (and who, in the event, boycotted the conference because of its narrow base).

Another factor which automatically restricted attendance was the prohibitive $35 registration fee. No, Virginia, that did not include room or board; those were ex- tra. I overheard two young women pleading for free admission on the grounds that they came from a non-profit organization; they were told that for $15 they might attend the remaining open

sessions, but not the workshops,

Nor was it as if the conference organizers had proceeded in blissful in- nocence of their limitations. They had by all accounts been under considerable: at- tack for some time.

Finding a venue had ‘been a problem.

Yoko Ono at Feminist Meeting

Betty Friedan the Star

Betty Friedan was the star of the con- ference. Her opening speech reiterated the familiar cliches of her particular brand of conservative feminism, deman- ding “full equality for women in truly equal partnership with men,” anxiously

Vicki Lawrence Photo

The original plan to hold the conference in New York fell through. The Women’s Center at Clark University in Worcester had been planning a conference of their own, and it was suggested that the NOW conference be combined with this. NOW proceeded to take the whole thing over; Clark women were justifiably indignant, charging, among other things, that the conference no longer had anything to do with them, and that it was being used by the university as a specious publicity gambit. It became an inflammatory issue on campus. Finally NOW withdrew from Clark. It was at the eleventh hour that they turned to Cambridge. Women at Harvard Divinity School, too, objected to the use of their facilities, but these objec- tions were overridden. Lesley College was only approached a bare two weeks before the conference date, after students had left, so they were never consulted.

I was also told that a couple of the NOW women who had been involved in planning the conference eventually resigned because of political dis- agreements over the scope and nature of the conference.

repudiating charges that the women’s movement attacked the sanctity of marriage, the family, and home, and making a special plea for men on the grounds of the “profound and complex human and sexual bond between men and women.’

Friedan’s book was clearly familiar to many of the women from other countries; the Soviet Union delegates, in particular, were fond of alluding to the “feminine mystique” and were seen carrying around a well-used copy of the book.

A close rival for the position of star, however, was Yoko Ono. Both she and John Lennon were there and listed as delegates.

I came upon Yoko telling Betty Friedan that one of the reasons she had come to the conference was because she wanted to meet her. As they parted, I buttonholed Yoko:

“Why did you and John come to this

- conference?” I asked.

“T, because I’m a woman, John because he’s married to one,” she replied with simple gravity.

“T notice that John and his friend seem to be the only men around.” ;

“Yes, they’ve been going through a lot of suffering because they support the movement.”

“What do you think of the conference?”

“Oh, I think it’s really great. You know, it’s the first international conference of women. I think it’s great that the American women have called an inter- national conference, because American

‘women aren’t really aware of the rest of

the world, you know. Women.in the East, in Japan, are aware of America, they have to be; but American women know so little about women in other parts of the world.”

‘“‘Have you been involved in the women’s movement before?”

“All my life I’ve been fighting as a woman — ”

-“T mean, have you been organizational- ly involved?”

“Well, only in the background. And I write songs.”

“This is the first conference you’ve been to?”’

“Yes, it’s the first.”

“Would you say you support the policies of NOW?”

“TI support any movement that’s fighting for women.”

“But don’t you believe that there are differences between different groups?”

“Oh, of course there are some differences. I know that some of the radical women don’t like NOW, and that the NOW women think that radical women are dangerous or something. But I believe in dialectical materialism, you know. That means that all different forces work together, work against each other” — she waved her hands in illustrative gesticulations — “and that’s the way change comes about. And, you know, I believe we must all get together, all women need to work together. Because all women are in the same boat; maybe different women are in different cabins, but in the end we’re all in the same boat.” - John wandered around in the background with a video camera and said nothing. Yoko went to the aid of the Japanese delegates, an arm protectively round a shoulder.

The two of them listed their address as .

c/o the Nutopian Embassy, Nutopia be- ing a “conceptual country” that they have founded.

The Real Problems

Elizabeth, Koontz, former director of the Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, led a discussion on Friday after- noon. She was one of the two black American women, by my reckoning, who put in an appearance at the conference. She spoke feelingly about the need for feminists to concern themselves with the real problems of day-to-day survival that women faced throughout the world, with the issues of hunger, of pure water, of sav- ing the human body from disease; more women, she declared, must deal with these issues than with getting into the ex- ecutive suite. She emphasized the need /Please turn to page 16]

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JUNE 12,1973, THE BOSTON PHOENIX

Shenanigans Over Black Senate District

By Martin Lomansey Jr

ot since the days of the Iron Duke, Speaker John Thompson, has the state legislature seen the kind of pressure that Senate President Kevin Harrington, House Speaker David Bartley and other legislative leaders put on state represen- tatives to insure passage of a senate redistricting bill that did not include a black Boston district. Dissenting representatives were threatened repeated- ly - by the leadership, by state senators, by flunkies of both. And all this over creating (not gerrymandering, either, as suggested by some legislative leaders) a single district in Boston which could be won by a black man or woman.

This flap started a month ago when Senator Joe DiCarlo, the Majority Leader from Revere, unveiled his plan for redistricting all the state’s senatorial seats. DiCarlo’s biggest problem involved Senator William Bulger’s South Boston seat. Bulger, the majority whip, already had a substantial black population in his district. Because his district needed to be expanded to make it equal to all others, Bulger feared that the most logical in- crease would have to come from adding black precincts to the west of this current district. This would have created a predominately black district and Bulger would have been in political trouble.

DiCarlo solved that by blatant ger- rymandering. Instead of adding bleck precincts contiguous to Bulger’s district, he added Charlestown. Charlestown is separated from the rest of the district by the Mystic River and former Senator Mario Umana’s old North End-East Boston seat. It was an outrageous move, made all the more outrageous by DiCarlo’s convoluted attempts to justify it.

The House Black Caucus was justifiably outraged by the plan. Representatives Royal Bolling Sr., Mel King, Bill Owens, Doris Bunte and Royal Bunting Jr. — all from Boston — had been tryingthroughout thesession to puta halt to a flood which seemed to be moving against them. Time and again, Black Caucus bills have been rebuffed by the House and Senate — Racial Imbalance, discrimination by private, liquor-licensed ’ clubs, and so forth. The DiCarlo plan, quickly approved by the Senate, was the last straw. Royal Bolling Sr., acting as the group’s spokesperson, made it plain that the black reps were tired of being treated lightly by the Democratic legislative leadership. They wanted a black district, Bill Bulger’s reelection plans not withstanding.

The Democratic leadership did not listen. They hustled up the votes for a quick passage in the middle of May. The liberal bloc in the House, although many supported the Caucus, was non- functional and leaderless during these early votes. Representative John Buckley (D-Abington), acknowledged leader of the group, not only supported the DiCarlo plan but spoke in favor of it on the floor. Buckley’s defection not only meant confu- sion within the liberal bloc but cost the ‘Black Caucus any number of moderate- - liberal votes who tend to watch Buckley for cues on key issues. With Buckley gone,

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the liberals could not mount enough pressure on these votes to counteract the Bartley-Harrington push.

Buckley’s reasons for deserting the Black Caucus are perhaps the only un- clear things about the whole debate. He has been among the best reps this state has seen, ranking with James Smith of Lynn and Paul Guzzi of Newton as the most effective and knowledgeable legislators currently in office. He has provided the liberal bloc with strong leadership. The reasons he gives for voting with leaders on this one (that a- black Boston senate seat would mean chopping some small suburban towns) do not hold water and his delivery of them does not ring true.

Buckley is up for the chairmanship of the Civil Service Commission, a well- paying job that he will take if it is offered. He is, in fact, the main contender. There is speculation that the leadership got to him on that. And, perhaps, Buckley has his own, private reasons for going against a black district. In any case his stand has seriously, perhaps irreparably, damaged his credibility and position in the House. He can never be accepted by the leadership. He is now persona non grata with liberals. His power has been serious- ly diminished.

The Black Caucus was particularly peeved with Buckley but they directed the bulk of their anger at the Democratic Party as a whole. The black reps were so upset with the party that they seriously considered joining the Massachusetts Republican Party (but not, they were quick to point out, the national Republican Party.)

It was in this atmosphere - with the

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Republican Party looking to score a propaganda coup by whisking the black reps away from the Democrats - that Governor Frank Sargent vetoed the senate redistricting plan. Sargent told the legislature that he would sign no bill that did not contain a district which a black could win.

The Senate was quick to override the gubernatorial veto with only one Democratic senator, neanderthal Francis McCann of Cambridge who was upset with the leadership for other reasons, voting against the override. Such liberal

Democratic senators as Chet Atkins of -

Acton, John Olver of Amherst and Alan Sisitsky of Springfield went with the leadership. So too did Senator Jack Backman, a true maverick from Brookline who could end up being a big loser in this particular brawl.

On June 1, the battle moved to the House. Led by Bolling the Senior, Barney Frank of Back Bay and Ron Pina of New Bedford, the black caucus and the liberal bloc minus Buckley rounded up 85 votes to sustain the veto. Bartley and the Senate leadership turned up the heat. The Senate moved to retrieve the House redistricting plan in the morning. (The plan had not yet been signed by Sargent.) Senator James Kelly, the powerful Ways and Means chairman, was dispatched to take back the plan. (Kelly was probably chosen for his power over executive budgets and his friendship with Sargent.) Before Kelly could get the bill, however, Doris Bunte and Representative Frank Hatch, the Minority leader in the House, warned Sargent what was happening and the governor quickly signed the bill.

If Sargent had not signed the measure as quickly as he did and if the Senate had been able to retrieve it, the senators could have held changes in House redistricting over the heads of dissenting reps.

With that move stymied, however, the senate leadership undertook some old- fashion arm-twisting. Rarely in recent years has it been as blatant. Senators - in- cluding liberals like Olver and Allan McKinnon of Weymouth - roamed the corridors outside the House chamber “observing” the situation. That is a nice, new word for putting on some muscle. Dissenting reps were hustled in and out of Kelly’s office where Kelly, Harrington and’ DiCarlo put on the heat.

“They told me,” said one rep, “that if I voted to sustain, some of the bills I was really interested in would never see the light of day. It was made plain to me that I would get bad committee assignments, have my bills treated badly and generally get cut off if I voted the wrong way.” That rep did not cave in to his credit.

The motion to override finally came to a vote. Bartley and Harrington needed 150 votes. They got 139 - 133 Democrats and six Republicans; 40 Democrats and 45 Republicans voted to sustain. Most of the Democrats were visible liberals. Such oldtime conservative reps as Eleanor

Campobasso of Arlington, William Carey of Mission Hill, and John Toomey of Cambridge bolted the leadership - for reasons of spite or reelection.

Last Monday, reconsideration was moved. Over the weekend, the senate leadership continued to put on the heat (some reps received a phone call every

hour over three days) but Bartley decided

to lay off. The Speaker figured he was beginning to be painted as the bad guy in the fight and told the Senate they would have to do their own arm-twisting for a while,

Harrington and friends were able to muscle three reps into changing their votes: Alfred Almeida of Plymouth, Paul Cavanaugh of Medford and Bob Wetmore of Barre. The liberals were unable to muster any switches among their collegues who went with the leadership on the first vote - notably Buckley, Frank LaPointe of Chicopee and Tip O’Neill III of Cambridge — but Walter Burke of Natick, who did not vote the first time, and Tom Colo of Athol, who had voted with the leaders, voted to sustain on Mon- day. (There is a suspicion that the liberals were also able to convince LaPointe and Roland Orlandiof The North End, whohad voted to override on Thursday, to make themselves unavailable on Monday. At any rate, neither showed for the vote.) When the dust had settled, the vote was 143-to-83 (12 absent) and the leadership had come up short again.

Never, however, sell the Bartley- Harrington crew short. Faced with solid ranks on the first plan, they hustled up a second. Most of the black precincts (but not all) would go into a district with Brookline, now represented by Jack Backman. The district would have some 77,000 black residents (but not voters) and 67,000 whites - a predominantly black district on paper.

The plan was a fraud, a cheap piece of legislative hocus-pocus. It was partly a shot at Backman, who is not beloved by the powers-that-be. If he lost, he would be an incumbent who would not be missed. It is doubtful that he would lose, however. Backman, with the exception of his vote on redistricting, votes with the Black Caucus 99 percent of the time. None of

the black reps would run against him on

those grounds alone. Further, Brookline _

has a heavy voter registration. It can out- vote the black precincts right now.

This shoddiness was quickly hustled off to committee last Wednesday where it was given one of the fastest hearings on record. It will come up for a vote and it

will pass. (Thiscolumn is being written on.

a Wednesday for deadline reason so - by the time you read this - it may have already been hustled through the legislature and be sitting on the gover- nor’s desk. It is constantly amazing to Beacon Hill observers how the leadership

can find ways to suspend (read: break) .

the rules when they want something done in a hurry.)

Frank Sargent, if he has any political sense at all, will once again veto the plan. And so it will go back for another show- down in the House. How this round will turn out is anyone’s guess. The pressure on Democratic reps to vote for overriding the veto will be immense. The liberals, on the other hand, have now lined up Senator Ted Kennedy and - through him - labor lobbyists on their side.

It may come down to a stalemate and Boston may, eventually, get a black senatorial district. The legislative leadership has, whatever the outcome, already done irreparable harm to their party. One of the most effective liberals has been all but destroyed. More than a few others have had their reputations besmirched. Bartley, Harrington, et al have handed Sargent and the Republicans a ready-made issue for 1974. It is almost as if Sargent had stage- managed the whole tacky charade.

And the public has seen - in stark terms

the toal lack of moral fiber in this legislature. Men and women like Barney Frank, Jim Smith, Ron Pina, Lois Pines, Paul Guzzi and Dave Mofenson of New- ton, the Brookline rep John Businger and the Black Caucus are more clearly than ever the exceptions to the rule of mediocrity that holds the legislature in its grip. With these exceptions, our elected representatives do not what is right but what is politically expedient.

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Elma Lewis Raps Press and Skinflint Donors

By Wayne Kabak

The story of the afternoon’s press conference was straight- forward: the American Revolutionary Bi-Centennial Commission had chosen the National Center of Afro- American Artists to be the sub- ject of part of the Commission’s first major film. The N.C.A.A.A. is, perhaps, best known for Rox- bury’s Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and its irrepressible founder and director, Elma Lewis. Before the conference was over, however, Lewis had managed to capture the ears of a roomful of reporters by launching attacks on the press, which she feels does not take her home-grown arts institute seriously, and on those donors “who give Harvard a half-million dollars and have no problem writing us a check for one dollar.”’

The film, itself, is being done by Lee Bobker. A 28-minute, $50,000 documentary, it will be divided into three parts which reflect the Bi-Centennial’s theme — Festival, Heritage and Horizon. The Festival portion of the film will be the nine-minute segment shot at the Roxbury Elma Lewis School recently. Bobker and his company, Vision Associates, chose the N.C.A.A.A. from a list of over 100 possibilities drawn up by the Bi-Centennial Commission, which is a Washington-based organization consisting of a paid staff and representatives from all 50 states. The Festival sequence is concerned with the arts. It is intended to be a testament to the growth of the community through personal commitment. The Heritage part of the film will focus on a unique health delivery service created by Benny Ray Baily in Appalachia. Like the N.C.A.A.A., it is conceived without government stimulus.

Along with the help of hun- dreds of others, Elma Lewis has nurtured the N.C.A.A.A. from humble beginnings in a six-room Roxbury apartment (furnished with a second-hand piano). The Elma Lewis School, which provides an arts forum for over 550 residents of the black com- munity, is only one of 40 projects under the N.C.A.A.A.’s auspices.

Besides running Norfolk Prison’s Technical Theatre Training Program, the organiza- tion sponsors the annual Elma Lewis Playhouse-in-the Park, a summer-long series of free plays in Franklin Park, which has been restored because of this program.

- The scope of the group is

nationwide, as well. Significant- ly, the N.C.A.A.A. gets no federal funds. Despite its demonstrated success, the

Lee Bobker and Elma Lewis

organization is under-financed to the tune of a_ half-million dollars annually.

TV Exposure

The film could give the school some of the exposure necessary to get some funds flowing. Bobker says that the film will appear on television stations across the country by October. There will be heavy non- theatrical distribution of the documentary, which will be available for regular theatrical distribution in 1974-75. Distribu- tion will be worldwide. Over 20,- 000,000 people are expected to view it. Since there will be no rental charge, the N.C.A.A.A. will not be getting direct money from its exposure.

Bobker, whose filmmaking un- its have been nominated for five academy awards, says that “the film is not of the American Revolution or worship of the past. Instead, it focuses on peo- ple who help the community by themselves without waiting for federal funds.”

Lewis, who says she is “thrilled” with the choice of her school, adds that the film “should say you can what you will.’ I believe it. I’m concerned with the limitations placed on people’s minds — especially black people’s minds. You don’t have to be allowed to do anything by the president or by anyone else but God. ‘You can what you will.’ In 1950, my dad gave me $300 and a second-hand piano. We were poor. Now we’re poor on a large scale affecting more people. I don’t find anything dignifying about pover- ty. [resent those with plenty who don’t do anything.”

’ As the talk turned from the film to the problems of the N.C.A.A.A., Lewis became in- creasingly animated and the sor-

ties started flying. One reporter, with reference to the lack of federal funds, asked if the Presi- dent will see the film: Lewis was not going to let all the blame be placed there, though. She had some words for the press.

“I don’t think that’s (the President seeing the film) so im- portant. I don’t see why the President is as important as me. And I don’t care whether he sees it. But I do care what you (the press) tell people to do. By and large, the response we get from people is what the people of the

media ask them to give us. So a

lot of how effective this will be will depend upon how you will treat it. As I look at certain of the establishment arts organization reported, they are always reported seriously, with dignity, as a necessary part of the fabric of society. We are reported frivolously as ‘kind of in-

teresting’ ahd me as a personali- ty. The concept of the validity as an institution that has an effect on society is not there.

Frivolous Treatment

“Arts and culture are not entertainment. And if they are, they are dead. They should entertain only as they instruct, edify and direct. Their art should be something that states how a people live, how they should live and what effect their living has on other people. And we seek to have a black art in- stitution, so we can enunciate ‘this is the type of people we are, this is how we should be living and this is the effect it has on your life.’ So when you treat it frivolously and throw it away, we are often very hurt.

“We say to children learn this poem about Africa or dance this

dance about your ancestors and © * then the press will say, ‘Children smile as adults watch.’ The

whole importance is lost. But we did dignify the person we set out to dignify so the whole impor- tance is not really lost.”

Lewis continued by drawing a relationship between this mis- treatment by the press and lack of adequate donations. Since the press gives serious consideration to more staid organizations like the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she argued, that is where the money flows.

Whether or not the press is to blame, the incontrovertible truth is that the funds are not flowing into the N.C.A.A.A.’s coffers. Lewis bemoans that fact that nobody seems to unders- tand that the N.C.A.A.A. is an unfunded operation. While grants from the Rockefeller and

Ford Foundations help defray the expense of dance and music teachers, the bulk of their budget comes from money that the organization must hussle. The Commonwealth does provide partial contracts for a sewing program and the Norfolk Prison program.

“Anything else we do,” says Lewis, “we are dependent on money we earn or people’s generosity. And the people’s generosity is like the girl with the curl. The people that have been good have been very, very good. And those that have been bad have been horrid. The number of the very good is very tiny. A man who will give Harvard a half million dollars will have no problem writing us a check for one dollar. And I think that the press has to help him change his vision of what it is we do and what it is we need.”

Lewis continued by pointing out that Harvard, which she said had an endowment of nearly $2 billion, gets federal grants but still lacked the funds to open their new nursing instruction building. “But if I say I’m broke and the press says it in the paper, they say ‘ah, that’s a bot- tomless pit.’ If you can have all that and not open a new nursing center because the government didn’t give you a contract and I am supposed to stay here every day and keep these doors open on pittances, then I think that the point to make is not that Elma Lewis needs money but how well we do with money.”

That night, the television news reports told everyone that the Elma Lewis School had been chosen to be in a movie. The viewers probably felt that it was very nice.

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Hanoi: City Struggling Return Life

By Miles Rapoport and Karen Nussbaum (From May 12 through May 26, four Boston area members of the Indochina Peace Campaign visited North Vietnam at the invitation of the Committee of Solidarity with the American People. The four members were Larry Ahart, Karen Nussbaum, Miles Rapoport and Jackie

- Ruff. This is the first in a series of articles on their visit.)

HANOI - The first sight that greets us on arrival in Hanoi on Saturday, May 12, is the city’s Gia Lam Airport, a low, rambling structure in the old French style. A cheerful crowd lines the bright white tiled end of the runway, bearing flowers to greet the arriving visitors. We take leave of a group of Swedish architects we have met on the plane. They are here to help plan two hospitals their government is donating to North Viet- nam. Members of the Committee of Solidarity with the American People es- cort us into the main waiting room. The room is airy and bright with high ceilings and great, opened sliding doors. Scattered throughout the room are large, comfor- table wicker chairs carefully arranged around coffee tables. At a bar in the cor- ner, two girls dressed in white dispense beer and limeade to the incoming guests.

Over half of Gia Lam was destroyed in the Christmas bombings. As we sit and sip our beer (which turns out to be warm) we can see a crew of workmen beginning the reconstruction of an adjacent wing. A neat pile of rubble (if such a thing is possi- ble) lays off to one side. (Two weeks later, as we are leaving, we will be astonished to find the wing completely restored.)

Leaving the airport, we pass what once was a train storage and repair facility. It has been completely destroyed, a testa- ment to the accuracy of the U.S. bom- bing. Almost nothing of the former struc- tures remain standing, only here and there a tortured girder jutting out of the debris. The twisted skeletons of train cars litter the site. Trucks, steel, lumber and people are at work there, coming in and

out, and a new steel and concrete building is just beginning.

Next, we slowly clatter over the tem- porary board surface of Long Bien Bridge spanning the Red River. The bridge is a patchwork of different colors and materials, the product of having been bombed and rebuilt three times. The Committee member in our car points to new steel supports in several places which sustained the most recent bombing. In the river, which is mud red, big fishing nets on fulcrums bob up and down.

We drive onto a street filled with hous- ing. People are seated outside on squat lit- tle stools at low tables taking the noon meal as the heat of the day descends. It is 10:30. The midday break has just begun. It will last until 2:00 and the people will rest in the shade to escape the worst of the heat. The houses are small and close together with straw roofs and rattan siding. These are the hastily constructed temporary homes, poor housing until the city can ease the shortage caused by the American bombs.

Back to Life

A fork in the road. A large hand- painted sign announces “HA-NOI” with an arrow pointing right.

After lunch at our hotel, we are free to strike out on our own to see the city. We find the streets crowded with people. Before the bombing Hanoi held nearly 1 million people. Most of these were evacuated with the resumption of the air war in 1970, well before Hanoi itself was bombed. Many, perhaps half a million, have returned in only the last few months. Many others remain in the countryside, working in the industries, the schools, the hospitals that were evacuated. Everywhere we get the sense that the city is coming back to life.

Bicycles rule the streets. Almost every block has a small bicycle repair shop. Bikes are the universal means of transpor- tation among adults. There are few cars; and those are for official use. There are

also trucks from China and Russia, buses with camouflage paint and some newly painted in brighter colors, and trolleys full of people. No one appears to pay for either the bus or the trolley. There are hardly any traffic lights so vehicles use their horns freely to warn the cyclists and one another. The honking is one of the few loud noises to break the relaxed calm of the streets. People peddle along at a leisurely rate. No one seems to be hurried.

Ocassionally members of the city’s self- defense teams, armed but without un- iform, ride by on their way to work. These are civilians who have voluntarily un- dergone military training. They are organized into teams to defend their workplaces. Though most of the popula- tion is armed, there is absolutely no hint of violence or crime.

Saturday Night Out

As it is everywhere, Saturday night in Hanoi is a night out. Many people are out in the streets, riding, walking or sitting in sidewalk cafes — talking and drinking tea and limeade around candle-lit tables. Some people are playing guitars and Viet- namese instruments. Vietnamese beer is plentiful and cheap. Vodka pales in com- parison to Lua Moi, the Vietnamese rice wine. Yet nowhere in our walks through the city do we see anyone who appears drunk. The streets aren’t brightly lit, yet there seems no fear of walking anywhere. We, who know American cities and who had just come from honky-tonk Bangkok, with a new hustle around every corner, felt a measurable sense of relief. It’s late now. The children who have flocked about us during the day, are now in bed. We are able to lose ourselves in the city.

We hear broadcast singing and walk toward it to find out what is happening. A free concert is being given on the steps of the national bank. (The roof of the bank is adorned with a smiling portrait of Ho Chi Minh. Nowhere in all our travels do we find any pictures of the living leaders of North Vietnam.) The concert, which is a

singer backed with several western string instruments, ends as we arrive. The crowd, over 500 people, begins to leave. We see people lining up to present a check to reclaim their bicycles from a huge rack. There is no shoving or impatience. Within 3-5 minutes everyone has their bike.

All over the city cultural life is awaken- ing. The circus has opened with all the gaiety and bright lights of every circus, at only 15-30 cents admission. The movie theatres have reopened. At the Kim Dong what appears to be a Czech murder mystery is playing. Plays are being per- formed at two theatres: a Greek tragedy and All My Sons by Arthur Miller. Miller’s play is about a war profiteer who inadvertantly brings about his own son’s death.

All this is new. During the height of the air war it was too dangerous to have large gatherings of people. Most of the cultural activities were either halted or sent on tours of the countryside, along with everyone else who wasn’t absolutely need- ed in the city. It is clear to us that the government is now undertaking a con- certed effort to increase and broaden the cultural activities of the people.

Hanoi seems to us a city hoping and straining toget on with the business of peace. Perhaps the most profound sym- bols of this are the one-person bomb shelters which line every sidewalk. The concrete cylinders have filled in with dirt and debris from disuse. Grass has grown over many of them. The larger sheiters in the parks and near the big buildings have also fallen into a state of mild disrepair. Our hosts, however, assured us: “We ex- pect the worst. The shelters can be dug up again and used within 15 minutes.” The cultural rebirth, the reconstruction of in- dustry and homes, the raising of the living standards of the war-ravaged society — these are the tasks the Vietnamese urgently want to get on with. But they stress again and again the danger of a renewal of war.

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Bankers Seek to Withdraw All NOW Accounts

By Robert Samuelson

“I am delighted to see the ABA (the American Bankers Association) here because I always know just what you fellows are going to say. You are always against everything.”” — Sen. William Proxmire at a hearing of the Senate Bank- ing and Currency Committee, March 22.

WASHINGTON — The ABA didn’t like that. It was so distressed, in fact, that it later sent the committee a letter listing 13 specific pieces of legislation that the ABA had favored. “We want the record to show some of the positive stands . . .” the letter said. But, letter or no letter, there was no disguising where the ABA stood on the issue that originally prompted Prox- mire’s tart commentary — the NOW ac- counts in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

The ABA is against.

And that may be enough to squelch the NOW accounts forever — or at least a good long while.

NOW accounts are those interest- bearing checking accounts that mutual savings banks have been advertising and promoting since mid-1972 in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. They have proved popular.

At the end of last April, NOW deposits in Massachusetts stood at $95.3 million, up from $11 million at the end of September. In New Hampshire, they grew from $1.5 million at the beginning of March to $2.4 million by the beginning of May.

In New Hampshire, the NOW accounts generally earn 4 percent interest with no fee for checks; while in Massachusetts the interest rate is 5% percent, but the banks generally charge a 15 cent fee for every check (which offsets the interest if the saver uses too many checks or has a small balance).

NOW’s fate hinges on the outcome of a House-Senate conference committee scheduled to convene Monday, June 11 for the third time. The ABA’s influence on Capitol Hill has already virtually killed

the NOW scheme. The House voted overwhelmingly (264 to 98) to ban the NOW accounts everywhere. The Senate was a bit kinder; it passed a bill allowing the accounts to continue only in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The House-Senate conference is supposed to eliminate the differences between the two bills. So far, the Senate conferees — out of deference to Sens. Edward W. Brooke (R- Mass.) and Thomas McIntyre (D-N.H.), who are both on the conference committee — have clung to their bill, but, if they should yield, NOW will die an early death.

It’s no secret why the ABA opposes NOW. According to government figures, there are approximately $63 billion worth of personal checking accounts in the United States; if banks had to pay, say, 4 percent interest on those balances, the drain would come to slightly more than $2.5 billion — or nearly 40 percent of the banking industry’s $6.7 million in pretax profits in 1971. Though banks would un- doubtedly try to recover that money (through higher checking account fees or higher interest rates on their loans), it’s unlikely they could replace the $2.5 billion very easily. Afterall, borrowers — especially big businesses — don’t have to come to banks for their loans; and com- petition among banks and savings and loan associations for consumer deposits would probably keep fees down.

But all this is arithmetic, and there is a subtler motive behind the ABA’s anti- NOW campaign.

Different Breed of Bank

As any average depositor has surely noticed, not all “banks” can do the same thing; in fact, not all ‘“‘banks” are really ‘*‘banks.’’ To economists and

businessmen, the nation’s main savings_.

institutions — commercial banks, savings and loan associations, and mutual savings banks — are substantially different; un-

der law, state or federal, each has a dis- tinct set of powers. Specifically: °Commercial banks virtually have an exclusive right to create checking ac- counts. Moreover, commercial banks have the widest latitude in making loans — they can make personal loans, real es- tate loans (both to homeowners and businesses), business loans, and inter- national loans. They can offer savings ac- counts and handle credit cards. Not sur- prisingly, the commercial banks are at the top of the heap; there are about 14,000 of them, and, at the end of April, they had about $600 billion worth of deposits.

° Savings and Loan Associations can’t offer checking accounts, and their lending powers are severely restricted. Basically, they’re only supposed to make home mortgage loans, though they’ve received additional freedom in the last few years to make a limited amount of other types of real estate and personal loans. But, the nation’s nearly 6000 savings associations still remain the largest single source of credit for the housing industry. With deposits of about $207 billion at the end of last year, they held about $206 billion worth of mortgages.

° Mutual Savings Banks are something of a hybrid, but they’re more like savings associations than banks. In some states, they have the right to issue checking ac- counts or make personal loans. But, es- sentially, they’re also heavily tied to real estate loans — though they often have more flexibility in funneling that money either to business customers or private families. At the end of 1972, about 500 mutuals had about $90 billion worth of deposits (and $68 billion worth of mortgages).

This financial geography may once have made sense to someone, but, more and more, it’s beginning to look like a system of private preserves — each with its own special monopoly, usually protected by federal or state laws and

regulations. The commercial banks had their checking accounts; that put the savings and loan associations at a disad- vantage in vying for consumer deposits, so federal regulators gave the savings associations a compensating carrot — a higher interest rate ‘ceiling for their savings accounts. Federal rules determine how much both banks and savings associations can pay to depositors; under the current rules, commercial banks can pay 4% percent on regular savings deposits and savings associations can pay 5 percent. The rationale for this spread was simple: the chief source of mortgage credit, necessary for new homebuilding, had to be protected.

Enter the NOW account: to the banks and savings associations, it appears — even in so distant a place as Massachusetts or New Hampshire — as a runaway bulldozer that could wreck the nation’s carefully-designed financial landscape.

First, it threatens not only to make bankers pay for money they now get free, but also to take away their near monopoly over checking accounts. For, if the NOW accounts were to spread to mutual savings banks in other states, the savings and loan associations would almost certainly demand — and probably receive — authority to offer similar accounts as a matter of commercial self-defense. And that, surprisingly, worries many savings associations — and explains why they eagerly joined the bankers in urging Congressmen and Senators to ban the NOW accounts. The savings associations like their interest rate differential on savings accounts; they fear that the more they are forced to become like commercial banks, the less defensible that extra half of a per cent will become.

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Rising Mad: New Movement

By Connie Paige

Something is happening and it’s hard to say quite what it is. There is a move- ment afoot, complete with stars and heavies, workers and rhetoricians, tac- ticians, groupies, radical fringe and a bona fide opposition. All it lacks are the financiers, and even they are emerging, petulantly, out of the closets. It is called Mental Patients Liberation, and already it has had considerable impact on that most unflappable of sacred cows, in- stitutional psychiatry.

It all began about 3 years ago when two —

New Yorkers, Helen and Howie Gelb, dis- covered a tiny collective in Portland, Oregon which was going by the name In- sane Liberation Front. The group was try- ing to establish a consciousness-raising and crisis center, but the pressures were too great and they eventaully failed. Helen and Howie, however, both of them graduates of mental hospitals, brought the germ of an idea back to New York, where any idea, unless it’s too sane, is bound to attract adherents. With the help of the Village Voice and a few radio and TV stations, a core group of activists came together.

Slowly, painfully, at times struggling not only with the complexities of organiz- ing, but also with their own stigmatiza- tion as ex-patients, the Mental Patients Liberation Project (MPLP) emerged.

“Our most exciting experience,” said Judy Hoberman, a New York MPLP member, “was the first patient we sprung.

We got a call from a young man whom we could barely understand. He said he was incarcerated at St. Vincent’s Hospital. He was under the impression he was going to see Mayor Lindsay because he wanted to change the Women’s Detention Center into a Universal Peace Center. They had put him in a room overnight and they wouldn’t let him out until he signed three papers, one for voluntary commitment, one for an experimental drug program and one for shock treatment. All that was wrong with him was that he was smashed on hash and was a homosexual. They shot him up to Prolixin (a highly potent psy- choactive drug) until he was practically incoherent, but he wanted out.

We got him to sign to MPLP the power of attorney, our lawyer wrote up a habeas corpus (a petition for release) and in 24 hours they let him out. Before that, though, we insisted that they take him off Prolixin and by the time he left the hospital, he was fine. Now he’s up in his place in Nova Scotia.”

From the outset, MPLP retained a purist approach. Only ex-patients were allowed to join and intra-group self-help was always stressed. Eventually the pragmatists split off from the original movement into a Mental Patients Political Action Committee and teamed

with professionals—some psy-

chiatrists, some lawyers. Others formed Mental Patients Resistance with an arm in nearby affluent Westchester. Helen

and Howie, disturbed by even MPLP’s flirtations with liberals and outsiders, broke off into a media collective and put out a small newsletter, Rising Up Crazy (“I’m not into an ex-patient identity,” says Howie, “I’m into a crazy identity.”)

Despite political disagreements and some bitterness, the various factions of the’ New York movement maintained a healthy outward appearance of solidarity, and, in a sense, their public face was not pretense. All the New York groups did, and do, oppose institutional psychiatry and specifically involuntary incarceration and treatment in hospitals and clinics. They differ only in their analysis of how to

fight the system, whether by legal

maneuvering, extra-legal action or any means ne to promote the cause. MPLP’s first liberation demonstrated that legal techniques, used correctly, could intimidate already harried hospital administrators into releasing patients who did not want to be hospitalized. The threatof a habeas corpus suit has been used successfully many times since, all over the country. Similarly, radical lawyers are urging patients to bring

federal civil rights suits against hospitals .

when the patients feel their civil liberties are being violated.

Legal tactics, in fact, are probably the most consistently useful weapon the movement has developed. Their only dis- advantage is the expense and the possibility of lengthy, tedious court

proceedings if the hospitals refuse to sub- mit graciously.

Here in Boston, for example, an out- spoken local lawyer, Ed Daly, defended a young black man originally from Ohio who had been illegally confined to Bridgewater for over a year. His client was committed by a Brockton District Court judge on the grounds that he was schizophrenic. dangerous and an addict.

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evidence of his mental illness.” : Daly brought a writ of habeas corpus in

Suffolk Superior Court and found two in- dependent physicians to testify that the man was “in remission.” (“‘Nobody ever gets cured when they’ve been labelled mentally ill,” said Daly.) Bridgewater agreed to free him before the hearing. The whole process took 18 months.

The more sophisticated revolutionaries within the New York MPLP sometimes opt for less time-consuming strategies, which generally take the form of the hospital raid. Danny Levitt, a New York member, described the prototypical

et We go to visit the patient, sign him out on a pass, go outside. Then we tell him, ‘Look. We can wait here for the doc- tor and have a discussion with him about whether you’re entitled to leave. Or we

can leave now. I’ve_got a car waiting.’ Usually they leave. Some liberations are

kind of difficult in that the patient is so brainwashed by the time you meet him that he’s not sure. He’s got a guitar lesson tomorrow, or something. So you say to him, ‘You’re right. Guitar lessons are beautiful. Let’s discuss it in the car on the way to Manhattan.” ; ‘ hile the New York group is decidedly the most active and radical to date, it is definitely not the only element in the movement. Smaller collectives have sprung up in places as disparate as _ Michigan, Georgia and Maine, among others. Yes, there is even a Beantown con- tingent, known by its friends as the Men- tal Patients Liberation Front (MPLF). Many of these groups took their initiative from New York MPLP. Others, like Boston, formed quite independently. Most have had difficulty in attracting members, particularly in areas where . there is no sea-level or sympathetic press. Often, a limited number or constantly

changing pool of members restricts them to nothing more than consciousness- raising, or forces them to fall back on the professionals. The MPLP in Philadelphia, for instance, for a long time relied on the benevolence and leadership of a local lawyer, for lack of organizing skills and financial resources among its membership.

On the other hand, the most active member of the Boston MPLF, Bette Maher, had to go underground for almost a year because she was swamped with re- quests for help at the same time that she was trying to set up viable alternatives to institutional therapy and work out a feasi- ble plan of action for her group.

Whatever the obstacles, though, each collective seems to have at least survived and at best rallied around a few specific projects. During her hibernation, Boston’s Bette Maher managed to gather together “three-and-a-half workers” who with her have hammered out “A Hand- book for In-Patients, Out-Patients and Pre-Patients by Ex-Patients.” To be used as an organizing tool within hospitals, the handbook carefully details the few rights that hospitalized mental patients do have by law. Among them are the rights to:

—Freedom of speech and association.

—Protection against work without pay.

—Management of one’s own affairs, in- cluding retaining property, making a will or any contract, voting, holding licenses, marrying and divorcing.

—Exercise of religion.

—Refusal to stay hospitalized unless there has been a judicial order of commit- ment.

Voluntary and involuntary. commit-

ment are described and the handbook not

only makes it clear that the patient can hire a lawyer, but also gives lists of legal aid centers, as well as Superior Courts and halfway houses. Finally, there is a

discussion of various lesser civil rights, also guaranteed by law, including the right to make phone calls, to send and receive letters,to have visitors, to keep personal possessions and to keep and spend personal money. The one right, the book explains that is not yet established is that to refuse treatment, whether it be drugs, occupational therapy, individual or group therapy, physical restraint or solitary confinement. A patient can, however, reject electroshock therapy (ECT) and psychosurgery, although even that can be countermanded on some cc- casions by higher authorities.

Bette is also planning a crisis and resource center which she and the Rough Times (formerly Radical Therapist) peo- ple hope to open by September. and -possibly sooner. There they will concen- trate on forming an alternative to hospitals, as well as a coherent plan of political action to combat abuses at in- stitutions in the area.

Hopefully, significant support will come to groups like the Boston MPLF by way of a germinal national coalition that has recently been formed. Just over a

week ago, about 150 ex-patients and -

patients-out-on-pass, psychologists, lawyers, social workers and sympathizers attempted a weekend conference in Detroit to review the movement so far, and to brainstorm possibilities for the future. The conference was a first in many ways. It was the first time that the radicals in the movement allowed themselves to team up with professionals. It was the first time that any such group has tried to map out a nationwide strategy. Most important, it was the first time that such a large group of militant ex-patients met their counterparts from farflung geographical areas across the States. -

Much of the talk revolved around the

legal front, but at one point the radical fringe seemed to take over. ;

“Let’s give psychiatrists a dose of their own medicine,” said one inspired lawyer who has sprung a number of patients from hospitals. “I’m sure no shrink is going to be quite so prone to giving 900 mg. of Thorazine to kids on the ward if he gets it in his own coffee. Call him at 4 A.M. and tell him to stop giving Betty Lou shock treatments for dating a black man, or else he’ll get the same himself.”

The voice of reason interceded in the person of an ex-mental patient. “You peo- ple are exposing us to the F.B.I. agents who are present. That’s beautiful to put all those psychiatrists on notice, but you’re professionals and you can afford to say things like that. Any ex-patient knows that all he has to do is fart and he’ll be right back in. I’m not against illegitimate acts, but I don’t want to see any of us get caught, especially not an ex-mental patient.”

It was in this spirit that the conference ended, with a resolve to set up a national clearinghouse for information from all groups working against institutional psy- chiatry, and particularly against involun- tary incarceration and treatment.

And many of the ex-patients conferees

left with the ever so important sense of togetherness that has made their move- ment so special to them. Some, though not all, were remembering what New York’s Danny Levitt said as he hoisted his enormous body from a stiff-backed’ classroom chair during a workshop on psychosurgery: “I enjoy being crazy. I en- joy being Jesus. I’m crazy and I’m proud of it.” For more information on the Mental Patients Liberation Movement, contact the Phoenix, 1108 Boylston Street, Boston, or the Rough Times Collective, ' P.O. Box 80, West Somerville, Mass.

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Citifair Finds Home the Waterfront

By Jane Hill

When asked: how he felt about American Citifair coming to the Water- front a North End pharmacist leaned forward over his counter and grinned “Citifair? Is that the thing where the rich people come and take advantage of the poor district?”

“It’s going to foul up our business because there will be no parking. The area is messy enough as it is”, explained Pete Nelson whose Scandinavian Design store is adjacent to the Citifair lot on Atlantic Avenue by State Street near the Aquarium.

John Savino president of the North End Businessmen’s Association said ‘‘As far as the business community is involved there are no objections.”

“Citifair? Haven’t heard about H"’, was echoed by several merchants on Hanover Street in the North End.

American Citifair, already rejected by the Allston community has been greeted with varying degrees of welcome tolerance, and opposition from the North End and Waterfront communities. Those who have heard of Citifair have some sort of opinion; those who are still ignorant of the coming event will surely have an opi- nion soon.

Citifair will take place from June 14 - June 24 between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. and will include a 3-ring circus 50 rides in a Midway, games food concessions serving a variety of ethnic foods a a Hofbrauhaus with beer and German-style hot dogs musical performances in an International Canteena and 90 exhibits constructed and manned by Boston organizations and departments.

Citifair’s new site will cover a 9-acre area, 6 acres directly on the Waterfront extending along Atlantic Avenue from State Street to Commercial Wharf South and an additional 3 acres on the other side of the S.E. Expressway covering the park- ing lot area bounded by Commercial and

State Streets. American Citifair has been the object of

considerable community opposition. Residents near the original Allston site of Smith Field pressured Mayor White into abandoning the 18-acre field adjacent to Harvard Stadium as a site. Conceived of as an exposition of the facets of a city that make it operate Citifair is intended to br- ing Bostonians back in touch with Boston. Thus far Citifair has been a model exam- ple of the disfunction, confusion, and lack of communications that alienate groups in the city and bury projects which are potentially beneficial.

“The Allston community was initially neutral but the flavor of Citifair was never communicated,” said Gerry Marcinowski, at the Allston Little City Hall. “Even after numerous meetings citizens still felt it would be something like Woodstock. Very real fears overrode the ability to see what Citifair actually was.”

Joe Smith, president of the Alliston Civic Association, contended that George Davis producer of Citifair was careless with his figures and in his approach to the community. “I put more planning into a Boy Scout meeting with thirty-five kids than Davis put into the whole extravagan- za....until we met with Davis there weren’t even arrangements for security.” Smith said the figures Davis gave for the number of people expected and the number of jobs available for area youths changed at every meeting. ““There was no mechanism for feeling the pulse of the community. There were no compen- sations for legitimate fears. I feel a loss in losing Citifair but I’m still a humanist for Christ’s sake and Citifair ignored how people think and how they = and how they hurt.”

State Senator Jack Backman, (D- Brookline), saw irregularities in the con- tractual arrangements between Falstaff Brewing Corporation which is sponsoring Citifair, the ‘Boston Foundation, Inc., which was authorized by the Park and Recreation Department to operate Citifair, and the American City Founda-

tion, which is actually operating the fair. Backman questioned the legality of an out-of-state organization (American City Foundation) getting a license to operate an event such as Citifair.

Charges and counter charges magnified the controversy so that the concessions finally promised to the Allston communi- ty, such as 24-hour police patrol, free tickets to local residents, special residents’ stickers, and a free shuttle bus from Harvard Square to the site to help limit traffic congestion, were fruitless in altering the opposition. Citifair planning moved to the Waterfront.

In the Waterfront and North End com- munities, “public sentiment has been more curious than opposed”, commented City Councillor Fred Langone, who has been involved in the Citifair controversy and was instrumental in securing the Waterfront for Citifair. Nevertheless, some of the confusion that plagued the Allston site appeared at the Waterfront. It was rumored (and published in The Boston Globe) that parts of the North End were to be blocked off, inconvenien- cing residents trying to get in and out of the winding streets in the North End and merchants, who would have difficulty sending and receiving supplies. According to Peter Richardson, an aide to Mayor White, this rumor is unfounded. ‘Plans are being made for minor traffic reroute- ment but this is to divert visitor conges- tion and prevent disruption of the North End community”, he explained. “Atlan- tic Avenue will be closed near Commer- cial Wharf South and traffic will be rerouted up Commercial Street. Rich- mond Street will be one way to help keep cars out of the North End.”

“A petition was circulated among businessmen protesting the in- convenience they expected’’, said John Savino, president of the North End Businessmen’s Association and owner of a hardware store on Hanover Street, but he suggested that complaints are disappear-

ing as confusions are straightened out.

Waterfront residents are concerned about possible damage to the area. Fulton and Commercial Streets are declared historical sites; the brick and granite building along those streets were con- structed between 1830 and 1850 when Boston was a major port. Now many of

these buildings are derelict and are poten-

tial fire hazards and residents are anxious to preserve them. At a meeting of the Boston Waterfront Resident’s Associa- tion, however, there was little opposition to Citifair, Ron Cornew, a member of the Association explained that, “Residents decided to accept the inevitability of Citifair. They realized the city had no op- tions left and that the only real possibility for Citifair was the Waterfront area. It was decided only to do everything Possi-

ble to protect the community and insure the skilful management of the festival.”

Planners of the festival are apparently trying to anticipate problems and accom- modate the community to prevent.opposi- tion from reaching the crisis proportions it did in Allston. City Councillor Fred Langone said, “Every department is working to guarantee success’. George Davis, producer of American Citifair, es- timated a police, fire, and security force of about 100 men on duty for a daily tur- nover of approximately 20,000 people. “Young people from the North End and the Waterfront will be given priority for a hundred jobs ranging from crew people and waitresses to program salesmen and monitors”, he continued.

The questionable legality of the American City Foundation’s operation of Citifair has apparently been resolved. The Boston Redevelopment Authority, which owns the site on the Waterfront, has granted the Foundation rights to use the land. Falstaff Brewing Corporation will still sponsor the festival. Profits will go to Summerthing, the city’s neighborhood recreation program.

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Colson Still Trouble- for Nixon

By Tom Sheehan If Richard Nixon were forced to leave the White House tomorrow, Charles “Chuck” Colson would probably have a “citizens’ committee” waiting outside to thank him for his years of devoted service. The Boston-bred Colson would do it out of sheer habit. In his two and a half years as Nixon’s special counsel, Colson planted newspaper stories against Nixon critics, organized deceptive ad campaigns supporting his boss, and set up phony “citizens’ groups” to support everything from Nixon’s economic strategy to his war policies (see “How Colson Set Up Pro- Nixon Vet Groups,” Phoenix, June 5).

Nixon called Colson his “troubleshooter.” Others called him Nix- on’s “‘hatchet man.”

And when all else failed, Colson would come out from his behind-the-scenes posi- tion to deliver scathing attacks on the President’s critics himself.

Now three months since he resigned his White House job to take up what he hoped to be a lucrative law practice, Colson is still doing Aa ager public relations work.

After reportedly dnd twice with the President the week before last (the White House denied it), Colson last week granted a half-hour interview to ABC’s Howard K. Smith.

Why, Smith asked him, had he okayed an interview at this point?

“I couldn’t sit by any longer,” said Colson, “idly watching while the Presi- dent of the United States was being tried in the press on third and fourth hand hearsay, on opinion, on the wildest kind of charges.”

“I know that the President of the United States was not involved in the Watergate,” he said. “I know that the President of ithe United States was not in- volved in the Watergate coverup. And I think that the sooner we get to the heart of that matter, the sooner we get to that critical question, the better “oi the coun-

try.”

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And of course, the better for a President whose ability to govern that country — and whose ability to keep Wall Street happy — grows more and more doubtful with each passing day.

Colson has “known the President as a man” since 1956, and he’s known the President as President since he started

‘working for him in 1969.

Presumably, then, Colson’s concerns reflect Nixon’s, and if there was any sub- stance to be drawn from last week’s inter- view, it-was that Nixon is deeply worried about his job.

If the “efforts to get to the President” drag on, Colson said at another point in

the session with Smith, ‘‘the conse- quences to the country, the consequences to this President, the consequences to the Presidency are just too great.”

Compared to statements Colson has made in the past on Nixon’s behalf, it was almost a plea. Just last November, short- ly after the election, Colson was delivering the administration’s harshest attacks on the media.

In a speech to the New England Society of Newspaper Editors, Colson accused The Washington Post, CBS and Eric Sevareid of “McCarthyism” in their Watergate reporting.

He saved his nastiest words for Post ex-

ecutive editor Benjamin Bradlee, calling him “the self-appointed leader of a tiny fringe of arrogant elitists.”

“If Bradlee ever left the Georgetown cocktail set where he and his elitist bud- dies dine on third-hand information, gossip and rumor,” said Colson, “he would discover the real America.”

“The Georgetown cocktail set” was a recurring theme of Colson’s public utterances in those days. When Dan Rather of CBS reported in January there was a rift between Nixon and national ~ security adviser Henry Kissinger, Colson wrote.a column for The New York Times op-ed page declaring that Rather’s story came from “the banal inanities which float around Washington elite in their social gatherings.”

In the space of his column, Colson at- tacked Time, Newsweek, columnists Joseph Kraft and James Reston, New Republic correspondent John Osborne, George McGovern and “his fuzzy-headed friends Clark Clifford and (columnist) Tom Braden.”

Colson can no longer engage in that sort of heavy-handed criticism. In his ABC in- terview last week, he directed most of his nasty comments at convicted Watergate conspirator James McCord and former Presidential counsel John Dean.

Even under Howard K. Smith’s not- very-hard interrogation, Nix6n’s former —— man did offer a glimpse igfe his etyle.

Colson said that in February of this year he suggested that Nixon ‘“‘cause one of the senior officials of the campaign committee to come forward and take responsibility for the Watergate.”

Nixon, of course, with his “very, very healthy respect for the rights of innocent people,” would have none of that.

“T’m not,” the President of the United States told his former hatchet man, “go- — ing to take an innocent man and make him a scapegoat.”

And that’s straight from the mouth of the man who would have.

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[Continued from page 5] ——_______ for “patience with women less developed in their thinking than you” and spoke with a gentle condescension of * ‘women with little or no education.” Perhaps “maternalism” would be the word for her attitude; it was an attitude evidently shared by many of the other participants. Among the most interesting delegates were the Scandinavians. These, though prominent and successful women in their own countries, retained a fresh and vigorous radicalism. One of the most appealing was a Norwegian named Berit As, the representative of a Norwegian feminist association, who had carried out research not only on sex roles, but also on traffic problems.and accident rates, and who had just been elected leader of a political party — the first woman in Norway to hold such a position. She

effervesced with exciting theories and ideas: she believed women did constitute a class in Marxist-Leninist terms, and that there was a female culture, distinct from male culture in five definable dimensions; she could demonstrate how male economic models were simply in- capable of including the value of female production in the home. Yet everything she had to say was communicated in a totally spontaneous and unimposing manner; this, above all, gave me a sense of what Norway must be like to produce women leaders with so little defen- siveness, so little need--to protect a precarious prestige.

“I ask you,” Berit As cried excitedly at one point, “I ask you to think of one question: What means double sup- pression? Suppression?” she questioned, pushing down the air with the palm of her hand. “Is that the word? Oppression, maybe?”

“No,” they corrected nervously, “sup-

pression.”

“Oppression” was not a word in the conference lexicon.

Warrior Women

The high point of the conference was the Social Event on Saturday night. Yoko sang, accompanied by John. ‘Warrior Women” was a magnificent, militant chant, and the audience stood up in the pews of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church and clapped in time to “Women Power”:

There’s no mistake about it, sisters We women ‘Have the power To change the world We'll teach you how to cobdk, brothers We'll teach you how to knit We'll teach you how to care for life Instead of killing

Two women from New York with guitars followed, and the entire con-

ference skipped through the aisles in a chain, singing, “I Am Woman.”

Sunday brought discussions of the real international conference that this plan- ning conference was intended to plan. I’m told that there were tears and gnashing of teeth during a heated argument as to whether or not men should be allowed to attend. In the end the noes carried it.

Final plans were somewhat v ; the conference would be held in 1974 or 1975, probably in either Belgium or Sweden. Seventeen women, including Betty Friedan and three other Americans, were elected to a temporary planning com- mittee.

On Monday morning final reports were made and farewells said. Two inter- national actions were planned; one in sup- port of three Portuguese women arrested for writing a feminist book, one in support of an Italian woman on trial for an abor- — she had eight years ago, when she was

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F enway

[Continued from page 3] Market is gone because the market closed and left the neighborhood,

“O God, who pays too much rent for an apartment because he lives in the Fenway,

“O God, whose church down the street has helped to close our shops and move away our neighbors,

“O God, who is old and lives on forty dollars a month in one crummy room and can’t get outside,

“O God, who lives in the projects of federal, state and city institutional in- difference,

“O God, whose toys are broken bottles, tin cans, whose play yard is garbage and debris, and whose play house is the floors of condemned buildings,

“O God, whose name is poor and old and child,

“OQ God, who is unorganized and without strength to change her world, her metropolis, her city, her neighborhood, Help us to join you.

“O God, who is overwhelmed by the in- difference, and apathy and status quo of so many who are good, Christians, and in church on Sunday,

“O God, who carries a sign, sits on the ground, dumps debris at City Hall, strikes his rent, pickets oppressors,

“O God, who in joining together, has new hope and new incentive and new creation, Help us to join you.”

When the service of mourning was over, the casket was placed on the steps of the Mother Church. Standing around were maybe half a dozen policemen in uniform, but they paid more attention to the driz- zle than the mourners.

Dead flowers and dirt were scattered across the casket, and the Fenway residents meandered away, down St. Stephen Street, presumably heading home for a late dinner. The funeral had been a flop, just a flop, no different from the play or the swim that not enough peo- ple had shown up for. Denting into the . attention of churchmen at convention is a hard task to take on. The neighbors con-

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tinue the battle not because they have no choice. They could move to other sections of the city where rents are lower. But for many of them a move has no validity: they moved to the Fenway when other areas of the city underwent urban renewal without adequately providing for their relocation. So they know from past ex- perience that you can’t pack up your belongings and move away from the problem. It follows you if you’re low or moderate income people. And it follows you so closely that with land speculation your rents double years before the urban renewal begins, as they did in the Fenway when houses were subdivided for student pads. Your landlord comes to realize that he doesn’t have to take good care of your building because he hears an urban renewal plan is afoot and his building may be condemned or demolished for new

construction. Roads aren’t repaired, and your children start playing near construc- tion sites.

In the Fenway, the first three new con- structions were in direct violation of the BRA’s vows of 1965: two luxury apart- ment buildings and a luxury hotel (the Colonnade) have been built.

BRA’s December 1972 fact sheet shows only one moderate housing building for the 507 acres of Project Fenway (which is officially bounded by Newbury St., Park Dr., and Mass. Turnpike to the north; Prudential Center to the east; Ward St., and Penn Central Railroad to the south; and Brookline Ave. and Francis St. to the west): that is Morville House for the Elderly, developed by the Episcopal City Mission ‘and located on Norway Street behind Church Park. It has 147

apartments, half at low rental rates, and half at moderate rates.

Church Park apartments, built on land originally intended for low and moderate rental housing, now does have 177 sub- sidized units, where people pay one- quarter of their income for rent. But that only came after elderly area residents picketed the building a year ago May. The Mother Church, which assembled the land and still retains purchase options, could, the neighborhood believes, have more mercy.

The elderly (over 65) comprise more than 4,000 of the Fenway’s 17,000 residents, and are the most economically disadvantaged there. They are linked in- exorably to the area through social organizations, churches and shops. Because of their low retirement incomes, the elderly pay greater portions for rent, a quarter of them paying more than half their income for housing, and an ad- ditional 40 percent between a quarter and half their total income.

The Fenway’s proximity to the in- stitutions and hospital complex, as well as availability of public transportation make it attractive to the elderly. But the loca- tion is also attractive to a population offering stiff competition for apartment space: students. Because they share apartments’ costs and can afford to pay far more for space, students have have

created special problems for the elderly

who have to live on a fixed income.

Urban renewal in the Fenway has been bad news for residents. It has been profits a-many for developer Max Wasserman, and for Bertram Drucker, owner of the Mid-Town Motor Inn and the Colonnade. The Mother Church is not suffering from urban renewal either, nor is BRA, which seems to have a penchant for re-planning at convenience without regard for residents who welcomed the 1965 plan with naivete becoming to a population that functions as a community.

(NEXT: A parcel by parcel guide of the Fenway Urban Renewal Plan; and a look at the myriad excuses and explanations for BRA’s failure to follow its original guidlines: complete with court battles; hearings; falling buildings; rising costs; and more.)

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Bankers

[Continued from page 10] associations contend they won’t be able to compete so effectively for funds and the nation’s real estate industry will soon be gasping for credit. Mortgage interest rates will inevitably rise. On the contrary, claim the mutual savings banks, NOW accounts — by giving consumers both more convenience and interest payments — will make it easier to attract funds. Mortgage lending won’t be hurt at all.

How NOW Began

The NOW accounts emerged in Massachusetts last year as a result of a legal fluke. Most of Massachusetts’ mutual savings banks are chartered under state, not federal, law; because they’re not insured by the Federal Deposit In- surance Corporation (there’s a state in- surance pool), they don’t come under the FDIC’s rules, either. (State chartered banks usually do, because they’re insured by the FDIC.) The Consumers Savings Bank in Worcester claimed that its state charter allowed it to issue “negotiable orders to withdraw” (NOW) on savings accounts — in effect, a check that could be written to anyone. Legally, because the account is classified as a savings deposit, the bank could refuse to authorize the -withdrawal for up to 30 days, but, as a practical matter, it doesn’t. Freda Kaplow, Massachusetts’ banking com- missioner, rejected the NOW proposal and said that consumers had stretched the state charter to the breaking point. The Supreme Judicial Court disagreed and authorized the scheme. New Hampshire, relying heavily on the ‘Massachusetts court decision, then okayed NOW.

The status of other state laws is suf- ficiently confused that it’s unclear when — and how — NOW could spread to mutual savings banks elsewhere. But that

~ won’t necessarily defuse the anxiety of

commercial bankers or savings and loan executives, because NOW is clearly pointed in the direction thay many government and academic experts believe the nation’s financial system should go: a blurring of lines between institutions, and more competition.

It isn’t written in the Bible, or even in Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations,” that checking accounts can’t pay interest. Ac- cording to Walter B. Wriston, chairman of the First National City Bank in New York, it’s common abroad. In fact, before the Depression, checking accounts in the United States customarily paid interest. However, the practice was blamed — how fairly is open to question — for part of the nation’s banking crisis and outlawed. Since then, of course, the nation has im- posed a federal insurance scheme on most of its financial institutions, and there’s much tighter: government supervisory regulation of most activities of financial institutions.

In testimony before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Eugene H. Adams, president of the ABA, obliquely raised the spectre of the banking collapse of the thirties; this approach may have scared some cautious Congressmen, but the hazards of paying interest on checking accounts don’t seem to worry government regulators. In testimony before the same committee, both the FDIC and the Federal Reserve gave qualified support to the NOW idea. Commercial banks are now barred from paying interest on check- ing accounts, but both these agencies in- dicated they’d consider modifying their

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that kind of official consensus emerging,

bankers have every reason to fear that even the defeat of NOW will only amount to a reprieve from the inevitable.

MSB are Weak

But, if mutual savings banks have time on their side, they’re outnumbered in Congress. There are mutual savings banks in only 17 states, and some of these — Alaska (2) and Minnesota (1) — have only a few. Basically, the mutuals are concen- trated on the East Coast between Maine and Maryland. That’s not much of a power base. “We’re just not in enough states,” says Louis Nevins, Washington counsel for the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks. In the House vote, NOW lost narrowly (45 to 43) among Congressmen from Atlantic Coast states. “But in non savings bank states, we got one vote in five: that’s proof positive that there was an enormous amount of pressure from those other states.”

Rep. Joseph Moakley of Boston, who is a member of the House Banking and Currency‘Committee and lobbied hard for NOW, reports the same thing. Local bankers and savings executives, he says,

the word to their congressmen. “They'd tell me, ‘I'd like to vote for this, Joe, but one of the bankers in my home town contacted me, and they’re afraid it’s going to spread.’ ”

And so, the future of NOW depends on the House-Senate conference committee. These conferences committees are strange creatures; it’s often hard to predict what they’ll do, or when. According to usually reliable informants on Capitol Hill, the House and Senate have reached a stalemate which may take two or three more sessions to break. Says one lobbyist, referring to the presence of Brooke and Mcintyre on the Senate committee: “This is just a matter of home state politics.”

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There were flags and gifts presented to the Big Three, Betty Friedan, Wilma Scott Heide, and Pat Burnett. There was a birthday cake for Lilia Filippova, one of the Soviet delegates. An Israeli delegate gave special greetings to her Egyptian sisters, which moved a Swiss delegate to tears.

It was Yoko who seemed to have the best last words:

“I started off thinking NOW,” she an- nounced, “but I ending up thinking WOW. All women are stateless — I see you have me down on the delegate list as being from England, I suppose that’s because my husband is from there; well, I don’t represent England, and I don’t represent Japan either — all women are stateless, but we’re getting together to form a new nation.”

She suggested that in this new nation the policy towards men should be that un- desirable aliens would of course be ex- cluded, while desirable aliens could be ad- mitted, but would have no vote.

In the past men domesticated women the way animals are domesticated, she said; they operated by a process of selec- tion, marrying only women who were pret- ty and docile, rejecting those who were aggressive and independent. Now women should use the same tactic, selecting only sympathetic men.

Of course women should never be op- pressors in the same way as men have been, she added; this was not for moral reasons, but simply because it was dumb and destructive to be an oppressor.

“TI don’t like the word ‘equality’,” she declared, “I think it’s degrading. Men have had power for the past 2000 years; women should take it for the next 2000.”

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Hanoi

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We spoke with Luu Quy Ky, head of the journalists association about his socie- ty and its visions for the future. His com- ments follow:

“We will have to turn North Vietnam into a technical society. It will take us 20- 30 years to rebuild and develop. We have water spinach which takes 15 days to mature, so we could eat even during the air war. But factories aren’t water spinach. But we will be successful, you will see.”

“It will be the most splendid period in our 4,000 year history. Our determination in this is as great as our determination to fight the imperialists. The construction of our country must be worth all the sacrifices our people have made. We must prove that an independent country can

develop itself. We must prove that a socialist country can develop itself. We feel that with intelligence and courage we can fulfill everything. The technological level of the world today is very high. We can make use of this in our struggle to construct. With these factors we wonder when we will catch up to the U.S. You may think that this is a dream. But a few years ago they told us that thinking we could defeat U.S. imperialism was a dream.

“We wish to make Vietnam a powerful country, not for the sake of aggression but to preserve the peace. First, we must build our socialist industry, It will not be the type of industry that must prey after world markets. We will learn from your example and avoid air pollution. We will not build skyscrapers. To crowd the sky is a crime. We don’t want to live on the 19th floor so that if the elevator breaks down it is an inconvenience, or so that if we have a demonstration we have to shout: ‘People!

Come down to the streets!’ We will build new cities, but only of 300-500,000 so that the town and the countryside may live in harmony. We want to eat fresh chicken not frozen chicken. We want a relaxed and happy people. We want to have more leisure time, more cultural activities for the people. There was a saying during the air war: ‘Let us drown the sound of the bombs with our singing.’ There are art troupes in all the factories and villages. We wish to bring the greatest works of art for our people and to translate the classics into Vietnamese. We want to hold a con- cert every night in every park free of charge.

Building a People

- “To build the socialist basis, to build the economy is important, but it is not the most’ important thing. More important is how to build a people, to build the new man. Our primary objective is not more refrigerators, more TV’s, automobiles.

These are not very lofty goals. We must build a great society with a high level of culture, art and social cohesion. We must give the younger generation great wings with which to fly into the future. Our future generations shall be better than us. We try to live up to the saying of our President Ho: ‘When the son is better than the father, the family is lucky.’ We hope to build the type of man who will rise above pettiness.

“I assure you we have no fondness for austerity. We are not interested in a race of martyrs. After our great sacrifices, our people deserve a better life.”

So Hanoi, with a mood of relaxed deter- mination is looking to reconstruct and build a new society in peace. But if the bombing resumes, the circus will close, the theatres will close, the houses will be destroyed before they are half-built. The bomb shelters will be dug up and used again. And the people of Hanoi will have to move to the countryside again.

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One recorder is mounted in the nose. It records the sounds of the cockpit.

could know how high the copilot thought

The cyanide. There is a technically

- complicated argument about how much cyanide the pilot had in him, whether that much was fatal or not, whether he could have breathed it dying in the

Sarelli et al until, in January, just before Chapin was moved, the Strike Force lawyers realized that Bottos (who had still not surfaced from his Sarelli cover) was implicating Sarelli et al in the December crash, with the makings of a tie to Watergate? That it was coincidentally at the moment precisely of the government’s

The other is mounted for maximum safety in the tail. It monitors all aircraft feedback functions and so gives the skillful analyst a detailed picture of the actual phenomena of the crash. It is the more important of the two.

Skolnick claimed that both in-flight recorders disappeared in the crash, were not discovered until the second day, and proved in the end to have malfunctioned anyway. Kessler cites FAA officia!s who say that neither one was ever lost and prints pilot-copilot dialog preserved by the first. But it turns out that the tail recorder did malfunction precisely as Skolnick said, eight minutes before the crash, when two loose bolts jammed the

wreckage in the fumes of burning plastic, or indeed whether (as one Chicago coroner still insists) he was dead of a heart attack before the airplane ever hit the houses. Kessler certainly shows us that it is plausible to discount Skolnick’s wild ratiocinations of plausibly insignificant fact, and for him, the Post, and the FAA, the plausibility of a soothing explanation (pilot error) is proof enough.

It is some harder for me to understand however why so large a story purporting to answer Skolnick would fail totally even to mention his quite legitimate argument from circumstances: Michele Clark’s presence on 553, the gas company an- titrust angle on Mitchell and Creep fund- raising methods, the Sarelli mob against

James McCord

coming to this realization that a federal attorney got Bottos for impersonation and/or madness and put him away for 40 days of “psychiatric observation” at the Federal Hospital Prison, grim name, in Springfield, Missouri, the Sarelli case meanwhile being put on ice? Post readers know these things? Or does the Post find them irrelevant to the story?

|< A Sleuth so Thinks

= No one is arguing that everything §% Skolnick says lands right in the middle. : H Skolnick is a sleuth. There is a style of

thinking that goes with that. You go to

the edges. You challenge everything.

drive mechanism. So the point is not altogether settled.

The altimeter. A similar case. Skolnick claims to know about a pinprick in one of the altimeters that might have resulted in a catastrophic misreading of altitude. ‘Kessner answers for the Post and the FAA that the pilot’s altimeter was intact and showed no such sabotage. But landings are routinely flown by the copilot, and the copilot’s altimeter on flight 553 was damaged too badly in the crash for the pinprick theory to be checked out either

left out.

the background of a visible underworld presence in the Nixon coalition, Alex Bot- tos’s relation to this mob: all this is just

And most fascinating of all, the Post fails to mention a central detail in Skolnick’s reconstruction, namely, the striking fact that it was within a few weeks of the crash that Dwight Chapin, whom we later come to know as a member of Nixon’s dirty tricks team, left Nixon and the White House to go to work for United. Skolnick says he took charge of

crash, and I have never seen this denied, plausibly or not.

And how could Kessler have left the story of Bottos, which he touches only to say that Bottos was busted for imper- sonating a federal officer. Did the Post assume its readers all knew that Bottos penetrated the Sarelli mob last summer? That he had informed to the FBI on its August theft of $2'2 million in securities from a North-Central flight from Chicago to Minneapolis? That he was being groomed as the JD’s star witness against

Everything is a potential clue and should be turned over. Nothing is what it first seems. Meanings are scattered everywhere in fragments. The world is a jumble of true and false significations. The reporter naturally tends to see the result as madness.

Rather it is how the sleuth functions like an artist to find the path of his most trustworthy intimations. Looked.at apart from this purpose, this style of thinking seems to remove all limits, liberate all paranoias indiscriminately, and so

way. (If only we had the tail recorder we

United’s in-house investigation of the

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destroy reason. But always remember that the practical sleuth, a lyrical prac- ticioner like Skolnick perhaps especially, uses his craziness as a means of getting deeper into realities, into concrete events, not as a means of escaping them, and that he constantly forces refutation to speak in the struggle itself. Reporters often treat opinions as results (like onions, something to sell and eat) instead of as ways of testing reality and so cannot understand why Skolnick lets himself think such outrageous things."It is to find out what is the currently unthinkable truth.

More simply, Skolnick is not after all a fool. He has seen to the busting of some smart, strong folks within quite recent memory. Flight 553 did carry a number of people who were interestingly and even sensationally close to Watergate. His story about ‘‘the Mitchell documents” is wellwithin the credibilities of awholesome mind given the teachings of Watergate and the Vesco case and other running national cases. There are modest uncer- tainties around the crash itself. There is such a thing as the Sarelli mob, which is technologically able to do what Skolnick says was done. Bottos did do 40 days in

the Prison Hospital. (Like Ironsides whom he resembles in no other respect, Skolnick is confined to a wheelchair. Bot- tos is his means of movement in the world, his eyes, his body. So it was not only Bottos who was put away for better than a month at a critical time in the in- vestigation of the crash.) And come to Chapin, his movement at that time from Nixon’s secret dirty tricks squad to United Airlines is, simply stated, one of the championship heavyweight coin- cidences of all recorded political time, and anybody who won’t get to that and speak out for quick and full investigation at the Ervin committee level must be thinking about other things.

What can it be? Why are all the liberal newsmedia so defensive out front about

Skolnick’s ideas? Are they so afraid of.

another civil war in their world? Or in their conception of the world? So dis- gusted by the idea of the murder of so many uninvolved people that they can’t even focus their revulsion and explain whether it comes from their fear of facing a perhaps truly godawful national situa- tion, or from honest and calm belief that Skolnick’s charges lack weight?

I say that as far as a normal old- fashioned New Left consciousness like mine can sift what Skolnick is saying, his theory is totally harmonious (a) with the late revelations of Watergate and (b) with the much longer-standing conviction, un-

iversal and instinctive within the civil rights, antiwar, and liberation movements, that Nixon’s reign is the reign of straight nihilism, his stupid, demoralizing face is that of death in cer- tain nightmares.

Suppose the Indian woman Dorothy Hunt was moving to be free of Creep’s madness and safe from its impending collapse and was in flight last December with all its inner secrets. What would 40 more mean to this person if his power were directly threatened? He is bombing Cambodia into a froth without slightest political and only scanty legal basis for doing so at the very moment at which he stands implicitly accused before the nation’s highest body of presiding through outright criminal manipulation of the electoral system. Meanwhile he lashes out for trouble in the Middle East, throwing arms in the direction of all and any buyers and traders, shamelessly mongering trou- ble, and on another hand he abandons to its unpiloted fate the vast and ill- comprehended international economic system in which our material security has its being, cheating and twisting it for all the profit of the real estate, defense, Tex- as oil, Greek shipping, mutual funds, and pro-war interests in order to serve. We’ve lost a war we shouldn’t win and he won’t stop fighting it. Our economy is loopy and strange and he has no new ideas. It is not known for a certainty that it will fall

within a matter of minutes, but the general plunge continues, rallies are in- creasingly technical and shortlived, and efforts to revive faith in a North Atlantic civilization are faded and stale. In a scene like that, who strangles on some few 40 gnats?

The straight media boast a lot about the job they’ve done on Watergate. But look closer at the job, say, the Post has done. Their greatest actual activity may be simply that they provided a free and unquestioned conduit for whomever it was who wanted the Watergate story to emerge. Not that it shouldn’t have emerg- ed, but that there is also some basic curiosity as to (a) the motives of the Post's original and still somewhat shadowy sources and (b) the motives and identities of the secret Creep funding group. This last is the higher question next after “did Nixon do it?” because it brings us the task of seeing who told him to, and makes us deal with people who can move mountains and close magazines, like Howard Hughes, for ex- ample.

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McCord’s first lawyer Alch in- ,

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Oh? Two days after Alch told

this story I visited the dilapidated downtown Washington office of this Com- mittee, which was set up by Fensterwald in 1969 as a light- ning rod for research findings on the assassinations (most notably) of the Kennedys and King. Its overworked manager and bottle washer, a pale, ex- asperated, middle-aged man named Bob Smith, an ulcer type, was impatient with questions about prior MCord- Fensterwald relationship and made light of the idea that there might be something hidden. But what about the checks that Alch says Fensterwald’s Committee received from McCord? Maybe it is not strange that McCord should have con- tributed during this period to the

Committee’s work of finding out who really killed JFK, an act I find inconsistent with his stance as a rightwing militant in a secret Nixon organization. Even so, that would make it only all the stranger that we had to wait to find this out through Alch’s testimony.

Smith’s recollections of this matter had not yet been entirely assembled that night, but basically, his story was that McCord had not after all con- tributed to the Committee. What happened instead, said Smith, was as follows.

McCord had a contract to coordinate secuurity measures at the Republican convention. The contract was between the RNC and McCord Associates, Inc. (According to Mae Brussell of the Realist, this firm was never licensed to do security work. It may have been a total dummy.) McCord Associates then hired, according to Smith, an old-hand anticommunist “operator” or “investigator” with an early six- ties HUAC past named Lou Russell. Through the coin- cidence of somewhat common professions, Russell happened also to know Fensterwald and the Committee.

Smith’s story continued to the effect that Russell found it hard to cash his paychecks from McCord, or McCord Associates, in Washington. So he would br-

ing a McCord check into the Committee and sign it over in return for a new check written in the same amount by Fensterwald or Smith against the Committee’s account in “the bank around the corner,” to which Russell could then repair for quick cash. The checks were in various amounts as high as $500. Russell brought the first one in around March of 1972. Before the Watergate bust put the whole job out of work less than three months later, Smith thinks Russell cashed ‘“‘about a dozen” checks this way through the Committee.

That’s what I would call a plausibly deniable story, though who can tell. It has so many checks in it — a dozen during a less than three-month period; several thousand dollars might have changed hands in this awkward-seeming way through Fensterwald. And the addition of the new man raises new questions. What was Russell ac- tually doing for McCord? What more can we learn about McCord Associates and the relation of Russell to the Committee?

In another interview earlier that day at the Flagship restaurant on the Potomac, I learned from L. Fletcher Prouty a few interesting new details about McCord’s professional life.

For nine years he was the Focal Point Officer for Defense

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Sporting Eye

The Fenway Park Papers

By George Kimball

“Well, actually I just wanted to give Monty another chance to bat,” grinned William Francis Lee III after Bob Montgomery had blasted a pitch into or- bit in the 10th inning to win Lee’s sixth game and give the Red Sox a sweep of the series against their old nemesis, the Kan- sas City Royals. The Sox had taken a 4-2 lead into the ninth, and Lee, who had gotten two out, had an 0-2 count on Paul Schaal. Then he (a) walked Schaal and (b) gave up a home run—the first of the year, naturally—to one Jim Wohlford. But, as Spaceman said, it gave Montgomery the opportunity to hit his se- cond homer of the game (he hit two all last year) and the Sox headed off to begin _ a two-week western trip.

Fortunately, the first stop would be in Dallas against the usually- acccommodating Rangers, where hopefu- ly they might build something of a cushion before arriving in California,

where the’ Angels and Athletics are not customarily so friendly. In any event, by winning six of nine games on the home stand, the Sox had crept within a game of

While Luis Tiant probably will miss a

turn or two with a pulled groin muscle, it

appears that Mary Pattin is now back in the groove, and John Duffield Curtis is still pitching well and, for a change, win- ning too. With Spaceman Lee throwing like a man determined to make the All- Star team, coupled with a few convenient off-days and the return of Ray Culp from Limbo, it appears that the Sox may be able to survive Tiant’s absence for the im- mediate future.

But if the atmosphere around the Red Sox wasn’t exactly unrestrained glee there were reasons. That cloud of bad vibrations supposedly caused by those daily internecine fistfights you keep hear-

ing about is not, however, the underlying factor. (One writer in town, having un- successfully attempted to serve as matchmaker for bouts between Lee and half the players on the team, has ap- parently given up and decided to take Spaceman on himself.)

Still, life on any team that has lost over half its games without employing any visible means of remedying that situation is no bed of roses. And if there are grumblings here and there it is not because players are mad at each other and not necessarily that players are pissed off at the manager, but because some peo- ple are finally beginning to realize that despite being a better ball club than their record, the Red Sox are not going to turn things around by standing pat and letting nature take its course.

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plate it would provide a great deal of in- spiration to everybody else.

Item: It can hardly be ‘inspiring’ to anyone save the opposition to have Reggie Smith wandering around center field like a somnambulent water buffalo, childishly spending more time exchanging barbs with fans in the stands than he does pay- ing attention to the game, chastizing his teammates in the dugout, sullenly sulking in the locker room, taking an occasional day off if he happens to have a hangnail and then leaving himself in the outfield when he is simultaneously afflicted with a genuinely sprained ankle and a wounded ego.

One “solution” increasingly voiced around town involves dispatching Reggie elsewhere. (“I don’t care if they trade him for a ‘Player to be named later,’ said one fan last week, ‘‘as long as they get rid of him.”) Trouble is, of course, that even if they did trade Smith, should history hold true he would probably come back to haunt them later. Having been em- barrassed by the mistake enough times in the past, the Red Sox are not about to un- load number 7 for nothing only to have him suddenly realize all that “potential” everyone talks about with another club. And while they could certainly benefit from the acquisition of a top-flight pitcher (If only as insurance; with the trading deadline a week away Luis Tiant, who has

been erratic, is injured, and Ray Culp,

just recalled from Pawtucket, remains a question mark), that avenue has been ex- plored before. It appears that other teams are not prepared to surrender much value for a temperamental .260 hitter with a $93,500 salary.

Item: Lee’s comment about the team’s “leadership” was not the first voiced by a Red Sox player. While nobody’s calling for a managerial change, there are many players who have, to say the least, lamented some of his methods—in par- ticular, an apparent laxity of control and a stubborn resistance to change and in- novation.

“Sure something’s wrong,” one veteran

player shook his head after a loss last

week, “‘and you don’t have to look very far to see what it is. What this team needs—and that means me as well—is to

be kicked in the ass once in a while when things are going bad. Ball players sometimes need to be shaken up. We should get chewed out when we screw up out there.” —

Nonetheless, despite innumerable woeful performances thus far, there has been but one closed-door meeting this season, and that one, anent the Reggie Smith-Bill Lee scuffle, followed a winning game.

Eddie Kasko apparently considers juggling of the lineup a sign of weakness. Once, when the Sox were playing worse than usual, he made a change in the bat- ting order—but not the lineup. Literally every other day-to-day lineup change has been a desperate move forced by injury.

“If you look around the league at the teams with winning records,” observed another Red Sox player, “you’ll note that they’re teams that let their players play. Here, unless somebody’s hurt, the extra men don’t get into games and some pitchers go weeks without getting any work. Then when you need them, well hell, you can’t expect a guy to be sharp when he’s thrown into a game after sitting on his ass for a month.”

This is indisputably true. In last week’s series, Oakland’s Dick Williams and Kan- sas City’s Jack McKeon both used three different lineups in three games each. Unless one counts the platooning of Rick Miller and Dwight Evans in right field, the only Red Sox variations were deter- mined by who was hurt that day. Detroit’s Billy Martin shuttles his lineup around to such an extent that the Tigers literally have 11 or 12 players who can reasonably be considered regulars. Similarly, Baltimore’s Earl Weaver, with a World Championship club, last year started Bobby Grich at four different infield positions in one series. Besides the fact that being in the starting lineup once or twice a week inspires a degree of self- confidence in baseball players that sitting on the bench does not, it also combines the virtues of keeping their skills sharp and allowing others an occasional day of rest.

With respect to the latter, consider: While they’re not exactly ready for a rest home a /a Detroit, a number of Red Sox regulars are not exactly spry young kids either. (Many, in fact, are on the verge—at least chronologically—of join-

ing Eddie Kasko on. the far side of the Generation Gap: Aparicio is 39, Cepeda 35, Yastrzemski 33, Harper 32. John Kennedy, starting at second with Doug Griffin on the disabled list, is 32, and Rico Petrocelli will be 30 this month.) Besides the age factor, there is the point that so many players have been injured. If Yastrzemski and Aparicio (backs), Harper (thigh muscle), Miller and Smith (ankles) Petrocelli and Cepeda (knees) are all well enough to play, it is also true that each of them could benefit by an occasional day of rest. In addition, Carlton Fisk has been the most overworked catcher in the major leagues this season, starting all but three games and catching both ends of the two doubleheaders the Sox have played so far.

What, then, could it hurt to shuffle the lineup around from day to day? When Fisk was rested on -Thursday, Bob Montgomery (Who, while insisting that he'd “rather be an extra man here than a regular somewhere else.’ nonetheless glumly confesses that ‘I’m sort of resign- ed to being the third-string catcher on a team that only has two catchers.’’)

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Pro Track: Beat the Clock

By Mike Lupica

NEW YORK — Way back, oh, two or three years ago, when crime was still in the streets and not in the White House, and Sky Lab was a television series on Saturday mornings instead of the 6 o’clock news, and feminine hygiene and deodorant were two separate and distinct things — way back when Richard Nixon wasn’t even on the Endangered Species list — a smooth, guileful, confident young man with Prime Mover potential named Michael O’Hara decided that he would found the universe’s first Pro Track cir- cuit. He had dabbled in other things—like inventing a little item known as the American Basketball Association—but

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“It’s still here,” said Michael O’Hara patting his breast pocket lovingly Wednesday night as he watched what would eventually be 15,501 people file into Madison Square Garden for the final meet of the International Track Association’s first season. Then he smiled the serene smile of a dream fulfilled. “This is so big,” said Mike O’Hara. “This is so sweet.”

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camera much the same as is used at the race track (A highly-placed source slyly informed me that OTB is seriously eyeing pro track for “‘pari-mutuel possibilities’). Another feature is that no two events are run at the same time; this is not always exactly the case, however. Bob Seagren was making his first vault of the night Wednesday while M.C. and former miler Marty Liquori was lavishly introducing the second heat for the 60-yd. dash. Li- quori also interviews the winners after their events and presents them with their cash awards. ($500 for first, $250 for se- cond, $100 for third, $50 for fourth.) Perhaps the most unique innovation of all, though, are the ITA’s Pacer Lites,

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