Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - October 4, 1972, Zanesville, Ohio Nader Claims People Ignored By Congress WASHINGTON sumer champion Ralph Nader reporting on his most ambitious study yet concluded Tuesday that Congress has abdicated its responsibility to the people in favor of special interests who get their way through good old-fashioned graft At a news conference Ing publication of his awaited study report on Con- gress Nader said the Nixon administration is easily the most corrupt in history in its relations with big business He called for a special reform session of Congress next year to consider public ing of election campaigns Nader said it is legislators increasing reliance on tions from corporate labor union farm and other special interests that lias largely undermined their ness to citizen needs This administration is not sympathetic to he said It is indentured to corporations But Nader dis- missed a suggestion he was endorsing Democratic nominee George S McGovern No candidate currently is addressing himself to the real citizen Nader said contending that only an aroused public could force Congress to reclaim its decision-making powers in behalf of the people In his report Nader urged the public to lobby for citizen causes with the same intensity as well-heeled lobbyists on Capitol Hill He cited Senate defeat the supersonic trans- port plane based partly on citizen complaints about extravagant costs and mental damage as an example of a determined public can win In his back titled Who Runs Con- Nader and his fellow authors hit hardest at the widely prevalent practice of special interest financing of election campaigns The crudest forms of bribery are vastly dowed as a corrupting influence by a much more sophisticated and widespread the team said Instead of going into the pockets the money is instead put in the campaign coffers for the next sometimes the previous election Of doesn't matter what the transaction is called It's still nothing more than good old-fashioned graft in a very thin disguise The Nader study carried out by youthful volunteers in the past 18 months cost an estimated paid for out of Nader's lecture fees and Even in advance of Tuesday's publication it drew protests from members of Chuckle There must be something to carnation judging by the way some people come back to life at quitting time Earl Wilson PAGES The Congress Some are especially fearful of individual profiles Nader plans to publish in the next two weeks on senators and con- gressmen who are running for re-election in November In addition Nader is ing a companion primer for citizen as he described it Tuesday which is titled You and Your A Citizens Handbook In it Nader said on television Tuesday and the CBS Morning News will be his prescription for citizen lobbying to help stem a massive shift of power from Congress to executive branch of ment Congress has got to be under the so to speak of citizens and civic groups all over the he said soon as that happens it will begin to respond precisely because it can't become a bureaucracy and has to expose itself to the public Welfare Proposal Rejected WASHINGTON UPI Senate killed a welfare reform proposal day rejecting the concept of a federally guaranteed income for all poor families whether employed or not Although the proposal before the Senate was somewhat more generous than President on's the outcome was a setback for the guaranteed income strategy he championed for three years The vote tabled thus killed proposal by Sen Abraham Ribicoff under which every poor family in the country would be assured of an income Under Ribicoff's a family of four would get Under Nixon's the same family would have drawn The vote made it likely that Congress would adopt no nationwide solution to the welfare problem this year Instead it was probable that on Wednesday the Senate would vote to test competing welfare proposals while retaining the present system which supports 3 million broken families Sen Russell B Long with one hand in his pocket and the other waving through the air said the guaranteed income concept made him tremble in fear for the fate of this Republic He threatened to filibuster until New Year's Eve if necessary to educate the Senate about the evils he saw in such an approach Ribicoff blamed Nixon's sal to compromise for defeat of the income guarantee Sen Gaylord Nelson accused Nixon of He said the President proposed a guaranteed income then dictated the writing of a Republican platform which denounced that concept Long called Ribicoff's sal Ribicoff called L o n g's competing proposal Long's drafted by his Senate Finance Committee would remove 40 per cent of 3 million welfare families from the rolls requiring mothers to work instead at jobs paying as little as a year Your Good Morning Newspaper ZANESVILLE OHIO 43701 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4 1972 Today's Weather FORECAST Partly cloudy today with highs in the mid 70s Low tonight in the Details on Page TEN CENTS UPI Telephoto National Monument An ancient lighthouse overlooking Lake Erie in Pennsylvania is now a national monument Built in 1828 it was the first house in the nation to use natural gas for illumination and went into commission seven years after America's first gas well was drilled at Fredonia N Y Bugging Probe Blocked Before Nov 7 Election WASHINGTON UPI publicans and conservative Democrats succeeded Tuesday in blocking a House Banking Committee investigation of the Watergate affair before the Nov 7 elections but Rep Wright vowed to try again Danish Prime Minister Resigns After Victory COPENHAGEN UPI Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag resigned suddenly Tuesday just hours after he led the people of Denmark into the European Common Market and achieved the greatest victory of his political career Citing unspecified personal reasons for his decision to step down Krag 58 named trade union leader Anker Jorgensen 50 as his successor The Social Democratic Like A Charm Assorted household goods for 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years in Danish politics is a long time He said Jorgensen's ment was rny personal choice Denmark voted Monday by a better than margin to join the Common Market The vote was an enormous victory for Krag particularly in light of a similar vote last week in Norway which turned down Common Market membership by a majority of almost 53 per cent After an hearing Patman's voted 20 to 15 against allowing him to subpoena top Republican officials and financial records relating to the June 17 break-in and alleged bugging of cratic party headquarters and related financial implications All 14 committee Republicans voted against the subpoena resolution and six of the 21 Democrats joined them Robert G Stephens Ga Richard T Hanna Calif Frank J Brasco Tom S Gettys Charles H Griffin Miss and pell Fla Two members were absent Reps Florence P Dwyer and Frank Annunzio The defeat apparently killed the last chance for any public inquiry into the Watergate case before the election The trial of seven men including two former White House aides indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the break-in will not begin until after the election Patman said he would wait a few days for public opinion to register and that he was confident enough public sure would be felt to turn the vote around at another ing Communist Guerrillas Cut Major Saigon Road SAIGON Communist guerrillas cut the lettuce road to Saigon Tuesday in what may be the first move toward attempted isolation of the capital before the Nov 7 U.S election military sources said Hundreds of civilians were caught in the crossfire as government troops sought to reopen the key road Field reports said at least six civilians were killed and 28 wounded in the fighting along Highway about 25 miles northeast of Saigon Along the central coast South Vietnamese troops Tuesday recaptured a former U.S base Zone over- looking Mo Due from which the Communists have pumped U.S Base Attacked In Thailand BANGKOK Vietnamese guerrillas attacked the U.S Air Force base at Udorn in northeastern Thailand early Tuesday killing one Thai and wounding two- American and two Thai security guards military spokesmen said The attack by an estimated five to six guerrillas occurred before dawn and was the second against U.S air bases in Thailand in a 24-hour period The Ubon base was hit by fire and an attempted sapper attack Monday ing Spokesmen said there was no significant damage in the Udorn attack which they said consisted of small arms fire by the guerrillas They said all aircraft at the base were being checked for possible sabotage Both Udorn and Ubon fields are bases for U.S Air Force Phantom jets used in the Indochina war Spokesmen for the U S Mission and the Thai Supreme Command said that one of the guerrillas who infiltrated the Udorn base Tuesday was killed in the fighting and a wounded guerrilla was captured The captured guerrilla was ed to be Vietnamese the Thai spokesman said Security forces patrolled around the Udorn base ter in a search for guerrillas who escaped after the attack The base lies on the outskirts of Udorn provincial capital a city of about persons Inside Index tar shells into the district town for more than two weeks military sources said U.S bombers struck in four waves against Communist troops and supplies within 32 miles Df Saigon Monday night with the closest target only 25 miles from the capital In a delayed report the U.S command announced the loss of an Fill swing wing bomber Sept 28 during a to bomb a rail line 55 miles northwest of Hanoi It was the first mission in Indochina for Fills since they were experimentally used in 1968 The U.S command in Saigon denied that Fills had been relieved of combat missions following the loss of the one craft In ton a Pentagon spokesman said Fills had flown combat sions since the loss but that all types of U.S air operations in Southeast Asia were currently curtailed because of Typhoon Lorna This loss has not caused us to change our view of this Fill as an operational Pentagon spokesman Jerry W Friedheim said It is flying today in Europe It's flying today in the United States And it continues to be ready for operations in east Asia The Pentagon spokesman said the Fill might have been lost over Laos instead of North Vietnam The U.S command in Saigon announced that a U.S Army Cayuse light observation helicopter was shot down by Communist small arms fire Monday eight miles southwest of Ben Cat which is 27 north of Saigon Two crewmen were wounded A South Vietnamese Air Force C7 Caribou twin engine transport plane crashed short of the runway while attempting to land at Due Pho district town on the Central Coast late Tuesday military sources said Two persons aboard were injured and four others shaken up Communist guerrillas placed mud and grass blockades along Highway about 25 northeast of Saigon severing the route on which most of the vegetable crop reaches the capital from the mountain resort of Dalat The route is called the lettuce road the large amounts of salad greens shipped from Dalat to the capital The guerrillas halted buses at the road blocks a mile north of Trang Born district town When South Vietnamese militiamen attempted to clear the highway the guerrillas fought with rifles and rocket grenades The civilian ties occurred when some of the 700 stalled vehicles were hit by the Communist es said President Nixon applauds remarks made by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko during a ceremony in the East Room of the White UPI Telephoto House in which they signed documents bringing into effect the strategic arms limitation ments between their two nations Arms Agreement Signed Classified Crossword Deaths Editorials Financial Hospital News Jeane Dixon Sports Pages Women's Pages B 11 B 2 B 6 A B 2 B 11 B B 5 A A WASHINGTON UPI ident Nixon joined Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Tuesday in formally ratifying a strategic arms limitation agreement that both hailed as a symbol of new friendship between Cold rivals In a White House East Room ceremony Nixon and Gromyko signed and exchanged the formal instruments of tion which brought into force the pacts limiting defense and offensive nuclear weapons which were signed in May in Moscow With the next phase of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT expected to begin later this year in Geneva both Forces Leave Lebanon By United Press International Palestinian guerrilla leaders announced Tuesday they will withdraw their forces from southern Lebanon the primary target area for Israeli raids in retaliation for Arab commando attacks Resistance elements will withdraw from villages and towns in the south of Lebanon said Kamal Nasser official spokesman of the Palestine Liberation Organization in making the announcement in Beirut decision has been taken and executed Nasser spoke after guerrilla chiefs including Yasser Arafat of the Al Fatah had met with Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh and Prime Minister Saeb Salam Salam said the decision will lead to continuing cooperation between the Palestinian las and the Lebanese ment Asked specifically if las would withdraw from the central sector of Lebanon's southern border with Israel which was the target for an Israeli attack last Sept 16 Nasser The resistance elements in the central sector are few We had withdrawn the few who were stationed there before the Israeli aggression men called for renewed tions to extend the scope of nuclear arms control On this occasion we nize that these agreements mean the first step in limiting the burden of nuclear arms as far as our two nations are the President said Also these agreements mean a first step in reducing the danger of war in the world and increasing the chance of peace I have used the term first step quite said Nixon because there remains a significant number of categories in the nuclear field that are not covered and that is why I share the views of Foreign Minister Gromyko that we must now move from this first step to the vitally important next step in which we consider the whole range of offensive nuclear weapons and try to find agreement between our two nations in that field Noting a relaxation of Cold War tensions Gromyko said Practical steps to limit rocket nuclear armaments rightfully hold an important place among the very real political changes taking place in relations between pur two countries and this signifies a success for the policy of peaceful n Nixon said What we are ia effect witnessing today is the beginning of a great historical process which can eventually lead to the goal that we all want a world that is much safer and particularly a world that may possibly be free from the enormous danger of a nuclear disaster White House Press Secretary Ronald L Ziegler said al agreements are expected soon He said he expects a pact on maritime relations and on settlement the Russians World War II debt before the NOV 7 election just five weeks away The maritime and lease agreements are steps toward comprehensive trade relations Uganda Talks Set KAMPALA Uganda Uganda's foreign minister flew to Somalia Tuesday to begin talks with a Tanzanian tion aimed at establishing lasting peace between the two countries 6 POWs Killed NEW UPI An In- dian security guard fired on a rebellious group of Pakistani prisoners of war Tuesday at a camp in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh killing six prisoners and ing 19 others a government spokesman said Rabbi Held Longer TEL AVIV The police won court approval Tuesday to hold Rabbi Meir Kahane head of the Jewish Defense League for four more days as the prime suspect in an attempt to smuggle weapons overseas for counterattacks against Arab guerrillas U.S Claim Denied MANILA The pine government flatly denied Tuesday it had promised to protect American investments here in exchange for U.S approval for its proclamation of martial law Tuition Tax Break WASHINGTON UPI House Ways and Means Com- voted 18 to 6 Tuesday to allow a tax credit of up to per pupil for tuition paid for sending children to private school Ship Probe Starts S U B I C BAY Philippines Rear Adm Philip P Cole commander of U.S Naval Task Force 73 Tuesday led the opening of an investigation to determine why a shell exploded inside a gun barrel aboard the heavy cruiser Newport News killing 19 crewmen and injuring 37 others off Vietnam Irish Bomb Damage Slight BELFAST mous bomb planted in a stolen truck exploded in the Roman Catholic area of Londonderry Tuesday but the bomb the largest in three years of Northern Ireland violence did little harm There were no injuries and only minor damage The bomb was concealed in the truck left in front of a million police station under construction in the hood Army experts said the bomb was and had far less power than dynamite As far as we understand this is the biggest yet in the past three an army spokesman said The police station was heavily guarded but the policemen escaped unscathed Security forces were unable to mine how the truck managed to get into the area where aQ traffic is banned
