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senator urged President Truman, the
leader of his own party, to resign and
allow Republican House Speaker Joe
Martin to take over the Presidency in
the interest of national unity This led
to Truman's famous retort that Ful-
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fallen Franco had ruled Spain
since 1939, after he had headed
the rebellion against the Com-
munist government which had
been imposed on the people in a
situation very much like Portug-
al has suffered in the manipula-
tions of the communists, who
held power there for a brief
time and are trying to recapture
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battles in medical history, Geri
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Spain finally surrendered to
death He had had several oper-
ations and numerous strategies
were employed by the physi-
cians to save him He had fought
gamely on through crises which
would have killed many another,
even younger person He rallied
again and again after physical
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THE ARKANSAS native is especially
bothered by the emergence of a new.
"inquisitorial" journalism that feels
obliged to provide a never-ending sup-
ply of scandals to shock and titillate
the public, even when no public pur-
pose is served
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IT’S A valid point. A skeptic is en-
titled to suspect, though, that the ex-
senator is really overreacting to some
pinpricks that he. himself, has suf-
fered from an otherwise friendly press.
Fulbright expresses resentment, for
example, at press speculation that he
is a humanitarian abroad and a racist
at home. But he can hardly cry foul.
As recently as last May, he stated
publicly that he was still not sure that
guaranteeing black Americans the
right to vote was a wise decision.
orporofian and any
be glodly corrected
As the only regime which has
succeeded in overturning, and
keeping overturned. Communist
rule, (unless Portugal also suc-
ceeds) Franco and his govern-
ment have been fiercely hated
by the Reds and their leftist
sympathizers, and have been
despised by liberals everywhere
But, although a harsh, in some
ways, dictatorship. Franco's re-
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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
Published Evenings Monday Through Friday of Each Week
3rd and A Avenue Lawton. Oklahoma
Bill I Bentley Editor and Publisher
4 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION. Tuesday, November 25 1975
"OU? POLL SHOUS A DECREASE IN
'JACKIE WATCHERS' AND AN INCREASE
IN CAROLINE WATCHERS.
Termed the “most profound
constitutional change in the
U n11ed Kingdom in many
years, " Queen Elizabeth has an-
nounced Great Britain's plan to
establish assemblies to give
Scotland and Wales " wide gov-
ernmental responsibilities within
the framework of the United
Kingdom.”
The Queen's speech in Parlia-
ment is the occasion of great
and unbelieving joy in the two
favored lands under British rule,
but it will certainly be the cause
of long and emotional debates
throughout the nation The ac-
tion is surprising and dismaying
to the average Englishman, even
though both Scotland and Wales
have long been seeking some
form of self-rule. Scotland’s de-
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VERY FEW politicians have been
better treated by the national press
than J William Fulbright, who re-
turned to private life early this year
after spending three decades as one of
the most influential members of the
I' S. Senate, In the latest issue of the
Columbia Journalism Review, how-
ever, he fires a broadside against the
media that leaves him sounding cu-
riously like Spiro T. Agnew, who was
definitely not one of his favorite
people.
Fulbright doesn't expect his friends
on the great newspapers, the news
magazines and the television networks
to like what he says. But he urges
them to recognize that "every criti-
cism of the press is not a Fascist as-
sault upon the First Amendment."
The long-time chairman of the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Committee is
Fulbright urges the press, for a
start, to be less thin skinned He re-
calls that when former Vice President
Agnew criticized members of Con-
gress, the press showed no particular
outrage "But when he criticized the
media, the columnists and editorialists
went into transports of outraged ex-
citement, bleeding like hemophiliacs
from the Vice President's pinpricks."
THE PRESS pleaded with him to
criticize the President directly and he
counteracted simply, but effectively,
with his well-known 11th Command
ment against speaking ill of any Re-
publican I think that position political-
ly effective because people tend to un
derstand the protocol built around the
concept of deep loyalty There are
those of us who find it excessively dif-
ficult to criticize a position without as-
sociating it with its sponsor But then
there are those of us who are not sue
cessful in politics
All in all it was an exhilarating per-
formance, and the pride of American
conservatives lifts in response to so
graceful an advocate Now, now they
know why Mr. Ford, for so many
months, has been so concerned about
the prospects of facing Ronald Reagan
Under mainstream politics, nobody
gets around to doing anything about
the busing system despised alike by its
victims, and by such theorists of racial
integration as Coretta King,
I nder mainstream politics taxation
rises, services diminish, crime in-
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gime did not begin to approxi-
mate nor even resemble strongly
the Nazi character attributed to
it, nor could it hold a candle to
Soviet cruelties, enslavement,
imprisonments, repression and
executions Franco never threat-
ened his neighbors
After being finally admitted to
the United Nations, in 1955. after
many years of ostracism.
Franco's Spain encouraged for-
eign investment, tourism, and
raised wage levels so that by
1962, salaries had quadrupled
The stability of Franco's rule
gave Spain a rising standard of
living, industrial growth. and a
very encouraging alliance with
the United States
it is that alliance and our vital
bases in Spain which could come
into question now if the commu-
nists and others do not accept
the accession of Prince Juan
Carlos de Borbon, 37. There is
ample reason to believe they
will not Perhaps what kept Gen-
eral Franco fighting so desper-
ately to live was the knowledge
that chaos might ensue in his
country when he would no long-
er be there to calm the storm.
We believe that historians of
the future will be immensely
kinder to Francisco Franco than
his contemporaries have been.
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SUMMING UP Fulbright contends
that the media have become a fourth
branch of government in every respect
except their immunity from checks
and balances."
"This is as it should be," he said
"There are no conceivable restraints to
tie placed on the press which would not
be worse than its excesses But be.
cause the press cannut and should not
be restrained from outside, it bears a
special responsibility for restraining it-
self and for helping to restore civility
in our public affairs ”
said that after all New York City was
charging $1,446 for municipal services
rendered to every man and woman and
child, when the national figure was
$670. The simple statistic had the ef-
fect of a tactu al nuclear weapon
Just as he was accused of being eva
sive in the matter of the Pentagon —
what Reagan said was that he could
not begin to estimate the size of the
appropriate budget for the Pentagon
without access to information available
only to the President, the Pentagon,
and Jack Anderson — he was suddenly
asked what his position was on the two
bills the President would soon face,
namely the energy bill and the corn
mon situs bill, to which question he
answered swiftly. "I think he should
veto both of them" giving the reasons
why
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in the early 1960s, well before the
idea of U.S -Soviet detente became
fashionable, at a time when most of his
fellow liberals still believed in a strong
I S role abroad. Fulbright made a
landmark speech decrying this coun-
try's "arrogance of power" and calling
right about that Because he is, he is for an end to cold wary mythology,
entitled to a full opportunity to get in
his licks. . LATER, WHEN the polls still showed
Fulbright s case is that under the strong public approval of the Vietnam
impact of Vietnam and Watergate, the war. he used (some would say misus.
press — especially the powerful East- ed) the Foreign Relations Committee
ern establishment press — has become as a powerful, one-sided forum for the
too self-righteous, too inquisitorial, too antiwar views that finally prevailed
unrestrained in its pursuit of real and The* ex-senator contends that pre-
alleged wrongdoers. As a result, he occupation with personalities also re-
charges that public cynicism and dis- suits in inadequate news coverage of
illusionment are becoming a threat to substantive policy questions As an ex-
good government, ample of distorted journalistic prior-
Hies, he recalls that in 1974 the For-
THE ARKANSAS Democrat is not in eign Relations Committee conducted
the best of positions to ciriticize other hearings into several delente-related
people for rocking the boat, and he issues that were "central to our for-
confesses as much eign policy and even to our national
Relatively early in his political ca- survival "
reer, he achieved sainthood by father- Al the same time that the media
ing the Fulbright Fellowships, perhaps were ignoring the detente hearings,
the most massive and productive ad- Fulbright says, they gave generous
venture in the history of international coverage to the nomination of a former
scholarship exchanges But he is best Nixon aide to an ambassadorial post —
remembered for his acts of dissent, "a matter of transient interest and
in 1946, after the Republicans won limited consequence."
V Gt ARANTEE of these bonds will
guarantee their tax free interest in
come ' he said "But it will not put
one thin dime into the pockets of the
eight millioncitizens of New York
It seems very etrange to Byrd that
the liberal Democrats running Cun
gross are in cahoots with the richest
New York financiers — most of them
presumably Republicans — in an at-
tempt to frighten Congress into enact-
ing the loan guarantee bill without tell
ing the whole truth about the shaky
condition of the banks holding the New
York securities
Normally, the liberal Democrats de,
mand to know the most sensitive se-
crets of the federal government — con
cerning defense projects, ( I A adven
lures, confidential documents — and
the House Intelligence Committee has
even voted to hold Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger in contempt of Con
gress for following President Ford's
orders and withholding some informa-
tion.
YET, BYRD said, the Senate Bank
ing Committee s chairman, Wisconsin
Democrat Bill Proxmire, went meekly
along with the bankers in their ada-
mant refusal to reveal the true internal
condition of their banks Byrd sent
telegrams to 11 New York banks, de
manding to know their holdings in city
and state bonds, and they figuratively
thumbed their noses at him
if I were the Banking Committee
chairman," said Byrd, a high ranking
member of the Finance Committee. "I
would have told those bankers, You
won't get this hill until you tell us how
many New York bonds you hold
Ordinarily, he said the banks are
entitled to keep their figures a secret,
but not in this instance when they are
calling upon the American taxpayers to
underwrite their own poor investments
in New York securities
Byrd said the Senate must find out
(lie truth about reports that specula-
tors are buying New York bonds at big
discounts below their face value be-
cause their panicky owners are unload
ing them for cash
IF S bond pays 10 per cent interest
and that interest income is exempt
from federal income taxes, a wealthy
person in the 50-per-cent income-tax
bracket stands to make a huge profit if
the federal guarantee sends the bonds
back up in value, Byrd emphasized
Take, for instance, a $1-million in
vestment in New York bonds paying 10
per cent interest
The annual yield is $100 000 Since
it’s tax-free, the buyer in the 50-per
cent bracket actually gets the equiva-
lent of $200,000 m income
If New York defaults, those bonds
will drop in real value Some bankers
fear the write-down could be as much
as 50 per cent Thus the $1-million in-
vestment in New York paper would
shrink to only half a million The buy-
er - whether an individual or a bank
— would take the loss.
THE FEDERAL guarantee thus
could produce a bonanza for the bond-
holders, and Byrd insists that all the
truth be brought out before Congress
votes.
New Y ork s Mayor Abraham Beame
and others lobbying for the federal
guarantee insist that it would not cost
the government "a penny.”
They remind me," said Byrd, "of a
bankrupt citizen who comes up to me
and says, 'I don t want you to give me
any money. I'm not asking for cash I
simply want you to endorse my note I
will take it to the bank and get the
money from the bank ' "
men 9varanteeing payment
Any erroneovs reflection of the charocter of ar
misstatement of foct which mov appear in th
upon is being brouoht Fo Fhe attention ot the •
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firms or independent
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tremist? The question was put to him
indirectly by several questioners, di-
rectly only once, when he was asked
Mr Reagan, aren't you out of the
mainstream of American life, and do
you think the people want an extremist
for President?
Reagan's answer was highly dis-
arming. though incomplete He said
look. I was Governor of the State of
California for eight years My record creases, we lose a outwitted
as Governor has been thoroughly ex- in detente, and devalue the dollar
'’Y „Ya me extremity ' What is proposed for the next four
committed during thosexears # years Reagan said with no fear that
I sa it ? incomplete because it he would be disputed, is four more
left unacknowledged the difference in years of the same of the "buddy
the Powers of the Presidenttand those tem in Washington, of “big business
of the Governor George Wal ace is ona Am,
.i,1 F.i.1. u . , E and big labor and big bureaucracy,
with fairly good reason thought of as Th. Am. n . „i..
. , , I be American people, he correc tly sup-
an extremist and when he attempted a poses, want unmistakable changes In
dozen years ago physically to intervene what has been on Whether
in an attempt by a black student to Democratic or the gentle,
matriculate at the University of Ala- men of the media will In
bamaghecommitt edan extreme branding such proposed departures as
act ’ has Governor, with a can for extremism is a question of
he ircumspect exemption of a few technique, not of substance But they
veacs when he made his wife (.over- are going to have a very hard time
nor.ever since • and not com- dealing with Ronald Reagan He is t0
mitted an extreme act, well informed, and to nimble on his
r u .. , feet, to fall easily into the ambushes
th ip perhaps single flaw in they are so lovingly preparing for him
the masterful performance of Reagan
thatihefailed.to point out that the HE HANDLED the first lot of these
American people are dissatisfied with with dispatch About New York he
he performance of mainstream poli- said he did not have concrete
tics. Inder mainstream politics, just to advance, and stuck to this
to present an example, nobody really through hard questioning Because he
does anything about the increasing ob- said, he does not possess ali the racts
noxiousness of the Department Just when it appeared that he would
Health. Education and Welfare and its confess to ignorance on the matter con-
manifoldninterferences in private ar- cerning which no one running for of.
fice is entitled to plead ignorance. he
mands have grown louder be-
cause the new North Sea oil
fields are off the Scottish coast.
British Conservatives and
moderates see this move as just
one more "rip-off” from Prime
Minister Harold Wilson’s Labor
Party Government, which holds
sway in the British isles. Many
Britishers think, instead, that
the bounteous treatment of Scot-
land and Wales will show Irish
dissidents ‘ which side their
bread is buttered on.”
If Irish independence and
complete independence of these
two realms is achieved, Eng-
land s glory will have faded con-
siderably. Its leaders will un-
doubtedly sleep better at night,
for a time, but the power vacu-
um could invite worse troubles.
By FRANK S LN DER LINDEN
w ASHINGTON - Sen Harry F
Byrd Jr the Virginia independent,
vows that a last-ditch filibuster will
block Senate action on the New York
bail out bill until the city's biggest
banks finally reveal how many millions
of dollars they have invested in New
York municipal and state bonds
Byrd said in an interview that hr is
confident of delaying a vote on the bill
which would provide up to $4 billion in
federal loan guarantees to save New
York ( ity from defaulting on its debts,
until some time in December
He said several Republicans and con
servative Democrats will join him in
demanding full disclosure of the
banks holdings in the questionable
city and state paper because "it is the
banks which stand to make the most
profit out of the bail-out
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