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Picasso leaves collection to Louvre
PARIS — Pablo Picasso, who died the world’s richest
modem painter, left his personal collection of paintings by
other great artists to the Louvre museum in Paris to be
displayed in a special room, his attorney announced Thurs
day. Art world sources said the collection was “worth a
fortune.”
Indians reject latest proposal
PINE RIDGE. S.D. — Militant Indians have rejected the
latest government proposal to lay down their arms and end
their occupation of Wounded Knee, creating what a govern
ment spokesman called, “an impasse on an impasse.”
Assistant Attorney General Stanley Pottinger said he learned
the Indians turned down the plan pending at least the return
of Russell Means, an American Indian Movement (AIM)
leader, and Leonard Crow Dog. an Oglala Sioux medicine
man Means and Crow Dog have been in Washington
discussing ways of ending the occupation.
China ‘only reliable ' peace keeper
HONG KONG — Trutz Ritter von Xvlander flew home to
West Germany Wednesday night declaring that China, where
he was imprisoned for more than five years as a spy for the
United States, is the “only reliable" country to keep peace in
the world Von Xvlander. 38. of Munich, was freed by
Chinese authorities at the Sino-Hong Kong border Wed
nesday morning He was arrested in Peking Nov. 17, 1967.
while on his way home from work as a plant site clerk in
Lanchow for the Lurgi Co. of Frankfurt The firm was
constructing a large petrochemical complex in Lanchow.
capital of Kansu province and a key industrial support base
for China's nuclear and missile programs.
Agnew says press not diversified
SEARCY. Ark. — Vice President Spiro Agnew said
Thursday the Nixon administration wants to be fair to the
news media, but the major news organizations are not
diversified enough is report fairly on government activities.
“It is significant that most of the cries of repression and
•conspiracy’ which are being mounted today against the
Nixon administration come from the opinion-making
media." Agnew said at the 36th annual Freedom Forum at
Harding College. “Very few editors and station owners
around the country share their fears.” Agnew said. “But,
again. I do not doubt the genuine concern of these critics in
the opinion-making media.” Agnew defined “opinion
making media" as “large newspapers and magazines which
cover the nation and the world with their own personnel —
the networks, the wire services..”
Rights spokesmen rap
antibusing amendment
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Civil
rights spokesmen said Wed
nesday that amending the
Constitution to forbid racial
busing of school children would
amount to scrapping the 14th
Amendment.
The amendment proposal
before the Senate Judiciary
Committee goes “against the
entire spirit of our Constitution/’
said Arlie Schardt of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
“It would do nothing less than
repeal the 14th Amendment,”
Schardt said. “It would reject
this nation’s 200-year effort to
realize equal protection under the
law for every citizen.”
The Rev. Robert Jones of the
Joint Washington Office for
Social Concern, likewise opposed
the proposed antibusing amend
ment in a statement submitted to
the committee.
“Few would argue that busing
is an ideal remedy,” Jones said,
“but it happens to be the most
effective remedy we have.”
Jones had been scheduled to
testify as the second witness,
after Schardt. in the third of three
hearing sessions on the proposed
antibusing amendment, but
showed up too late.
A former Texas state senator,
Wayne Connally, chairman of the
National Committee for a Con
stitutional Amendment Against
Forced Busing, predicted that by
1974 the states will be in position
to launch an amendment
themselves if Congress fails to
act by then.
Connally testified before a brief
hearing called by Chairman Sam
Ervin Jr., D-N.C., before his own
judiciary subcommittee on
separation of powers, to consider
guidelines for conducting a
constitutional convention.
House proposes weaker
price, interest roll back
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A bill
to roll back prices and interest
rates to March 16 levels and rents
to Jan. 10 levels was cleared
Thursday for action on the House
flow on Monday.
The compromise bill,
somewhat weaker than a House
Ranking Committee bill that
would have rolled back all prices,
rents and interest rates to Jan. 10
levels, was approved for action 9
to 5 on a straight party line vote
of the House Rules Committee.
Republicans and a small
contingent of conservative
Democrats vowed to fight mi the
floor for passage of a straight
one-year extension of President
Nixon’s discretionary wage-price
control authority. Nixon asked
for the one-year extension and
opposes Democratic efforts to
force stronger action
Under the compromise bill,
worked out by Democrats in a
series of meetings over 24 hours,
all prices and most interest rates
would be placed under a ceiling
at rates no higher than they were
on March 16. An exception would
allow prices to rise to their
highest level under Phase II
controls in the few cases where
prices have fallen since Phase II
controls were lifted Jan. 10.
Nixon would have 60 days to
devise a system of further
rollbacks, and could allow price
increases if he could explain
them to Congress.
Big market interest rates
would not be covered. The bill
would control only home mor
tgage, consumer, farm, small
business and personal loan rates.
Rents could rise from Jan. 10
levels only to compensate the
landlord for tax and cost in
creases and capital im
provements.
The decision to push ahead with
a strong bill was a dramatic
reversal of the House leader
ship's decision Wednesday to put
off the bill and instead extend
Nixon’s general powers 60 days.
That decision was brought
about by confusion in the Rules
Committee and by strong
pressure from farmers and other
interest groups. Apparently the
lesser rollback will blunt much of
that criticism.
Rep. Clem McSpadden, D
Okla.; a member of the Rules
Committee and a strong
spokesman for cattle ranchers,
said the March 16 rollback would
hurt farmers, but “he’ll be less
hurt” than under the Jan. 10
rollback.
The rent rollback caused little
controversy.
Republicans and a key can
servative Democrat said they
would work to substitute a simple
extension of Nixon’s powers an
Monday. Those powers expire
April 30, and if Congress does not
pass extending legislation before
it adjourns for Easter recess
Thursday, those powers will
expire.
Rep. Tom Gettys, D-S.C., a
member of the Banking Com
mittee, said he felt Republicans
and some Democrats had the
necessary votes to push through a
simple extension. He said the bill
as now written “couldn’t cause
anything but utter chaos.”
With President Nixon’s wage
price controls authority expiring
April 30, House leaden decided
Wednesday to abandon their
campaign for a rollback of
wages, prices and interest rates
to their Jan. 10 levels in the face
of heavy lobbying against the
plan and opposition within the
Rules Committee.
They opted instead for a
simple, 60-day extension of
Nixon’s control powers, but Rep.
Wright Patman, D-Tex., and his
fellow Banking Committee
Democrats quickly asked
Speaker Carl Albert for another
chance.
Patman said extcuiLug Nixon’s
powers for 60 days would be
“extending disastrous policies.”
OEO: A moral victory staves
off final defeat for supporters
By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A federal judge has
ruled that President Nixon may not ck*e down the
Office of Economic Opportunity without an okay
from Congress, but the smell of cooked goose hangs
over the antipoverty agency anyway.
UJS District Judge William Jones said Wed
nesday Nixon does not have the legal authority to
abolish OEO on June 30, as he plans, because
Congress extended its life through mid-1975 in
legislation it passed and the President signed last
year. Jones ordered OEO acting Director Howard
Phillips to stop dismantling the agency.
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Assuming that the administration will not
directly defy the ruling, which is appealable all the
way to the Supreme Court, the President still has
the trump cards. He could easily keep OEO alive in
name and go ahead with his plans to eliminate the
last visible vestiges of the once-proud War on
Poverty.
First, because OEO originally was created as
an arm of the White House, it does not even have the
independence of an agency such as the Interstate
Commerce Commission. In a very real way, it is run
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by the President, and its officials must respond to
his wishes.
Second, because Congress gave OEO the
authority to “delegate” or transfer the antipoverty
programs to other departments and agencies,
Nixon could simply “spin off” every OEO activity
and leave the headquarters office with nothing to
do.
Alternatively, Nixon could have Phillips con
tinue to operate the remaining antipoverty
programs, but under regulations that could be made
tough enough to effectively put them out of
business. This would be especially true of both legal
services and community action, which do most of
their work in poor neighborhoods and often must
bend regulations to get results.
From a practical standpoint, the victory of OEO
supporters in Jones’ ruling seems to be more moral
than real. When Phillips took over the OEO from
Phillip Sanchez last winter, and the dismantling
plans became known, there was a general exodus of
experienced antipoverty administrators. The top
posts now are either vacant or filled with Phillips’
appointees who are dedicated to the mission of
wiping out the agency.
Recently, the Washington Post published an
editorial page article by Robert Perrin, former
second man at OEO under Sargent Shriver His
view of OEO was to “let it die” and concentrate on
building up antipoverty programs in other federal
departments and agencies.
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