European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Post Reagan recall plan like impeach Warren by William p. Buckley or. Constitution require Reagan to item Down the mov Mont to Rackam 0o�. Ronald until a special Lection can be held bean it of a tilt dramatic interest since write the Berkeley Gazette. It h will Ketly that there Wilt be a second if a petition it validated governor of and All but  that there Reagan will Hove to turn hit Job Over to will by a third act. In order 10 put recall u. Governor Robert Finch for at Long of w the ballot it to no Cowain to cd cumulate three month until a pedal  780,414 . 12 per cent of the last vote now that happen to be Luff and non to Natur on a petition that asks for sense. If the petition ii validated Reagan recall. Continues As governor. The Only duty that anywhere from 30 to 4s per cent of devolves upon the lieutenant governor is such signatures tend to to invalid. So that cranking up the necessary mechanism of in order to bring the petition drive to a a special election. As the timetable works acc Tifful conclusion Well Over a million signatures will need to be collected before the end of this month. The chairman of the recall movement claims to have in hand 650,000 signatures and h is to say the least unlikely that he will double that number in the next few weeks. But let us assume that he does that there will in fact to a second act. On to the third. Who t happens then there is a lot of fatso information going the rounds about what article 23 of the California Constitution says. A the current recall Campaign gains the needed signatures of 780,000 registered voters by the end of july the state out that election would coincide with the general election of next november. And what then would happen Why presumably Reagan would win just As he won before. It would take a More idiotic population than California s to turn some one out of office for trying to do what the voters by an emphatic majority showed they wanted him to do As recently As two years ago. End of Story not quite it is time to ask who Are the people behind the retail movement and what shall we think of them the chair Man Edwin Koupal is an unemployed car Salesman and you would think that Rea Gan had passed a state Law to the effect that no one could buy a car from Edwin Koupal. Let him pass. The principal organizational support comes from a Bunch of labor unions notably the International association of machinists. Let that pass. Compulsory labor unions Are hardly expected to be practice in the processes of democratic government. But then it becomes More interesting. The movement is getting moral encourage ment from the intellectual Community. A Nobel prize Winner is prominently identified with it. Former gov. Pat Brown has himself signed the petition. The exalted Jesse Unruh is less and less inclined to oppose a  in other words men who Are supposed to know better indeed men who Are professionally engaged in the business of governing Are panting after their own ver Sion of impeach Earl  exactly the same people who enter the sloughs of despond and wonder about the survival of the human species when anyone mentions the John Birch society Are behaving exactly As that society did in regard to Earl Warren. Last year there was a movement to retail son. Frank Church of Idaho. The Walling Wall went instantly into action Hind quite correctly pointing out that democracy ought not to work this Way. Where is the wailing Wall now out to lunch. The California Constitution declares that the petition to recall a Public official must cite the reason for that recall but that the reason Given is not reviewable. This meant in practical effect that Reagan could to forced into a recall ballot if 780,414 californians decided that he was growing Bald. The reason Given by the car Salesman is not very different Ronald Reagan is not competent in matters of government and Public affairs is the first reason Given and the last one Ronald Reagan is at tempting to further his personal ambitions at the expense of the people in the state of  you might As Well argue that no one should be permitted to sell cars at the expense of people who buy cars. The whole idea is to Embarrass Reagan. One would think that the Liberal Community would renounce the movement be fore it thoroughly embarrasses it. Sniping May backfire on Nixon by Clayton Washington if Richard Nixon s pre convention sniping at the administration is a clue to the Type of Campaign he intends to wage if nominated he is Likely to find that like Barry Goldwater he has hit upon the wrong strategy. It hcs been obvious for some time that Nixon is preparing to run against Hubert Humphrey and his Mentor president Johnson but he seems to have forgotten How agile and effective the president and vice president have always been in defending them selves against old fashioned hard line attacks. Johnson and Humphrey have pursued such a hard line themselves that their left flank May be Vulner Able to a peace candidate like sen. Eugene Mccarthy but it is going to be hard for Nixon or anybody else to convince the Public that they Are soft on communism. In the 1964 presidential Campaign Goldwater took a fling at picturing Johnson As soft on Vietnam and he still has t recovered from the Boomerang. The president swiftly tagged Goldwater As a trigger Happy War Monger. It was Good for a landslide. Now Nixon has i cautiously exposed himself to a similar counterattack. As soon As a . Troop carrying plane was forced to land in the Kurile islands by russian migs Nixon was issuing ultimatums even before the president or the russians could be heard. The president however did not lose his head nor did the russians. A Little quiet diplomacy quickly resolved the matter. The . Regretted that the plane flying off course had violated soviet territory. The russians promptly released the plane and hat was that. Nixon has seriously misread the american mood if he believes his aggressive a Fritchey proach to the plane and the Pueblo incident is More appealing to the voters than the careful re strained Way the president has acted in both cases. Any Man who has been vice president for eight years As Nixon has ought to know it is risky to criticize an administration before he has the facts especially when it is certain that the president is in Possession of them. It is also dangerous for one who aspires to the Republican leadership to take Hasty positions without consulting other party leaders. It was Only too noticeable that no other key republicans joined Nixon in trying to exploit the plane incident. And the week before that it was also noticeable that Nixon did not have much com Pany from the Republican leadership when he at tacked Johnson s appointment of Abe fort As to succeed Earl Warren As chief Justice. Both the conserva Tive minority Leader of the Senate Everett Dirksen and the Liberal governor of new York Nelson Rockefeller pointedly differed with Nixon on the propriety of the president s action. The president who appoints a study commission at the drop of a hat must also be amused by Nixon s pledge if elected to Roll Back centralized government by creating a special commission to go into the problem. Nixon must surely know that the Library of con Gress is already bulging with the unimplemented studies of previous government reorganization panels. Above All he might have guessed that somebody would look up the record of the Eisen Hower Nixon administration and discover that the or top Ai Federal government became bigger than Ever during "t-ac�/5wthose years. A 1963, newday. Inc. Secon in the re Orlds Johnson alarmed by Nasser s Kremlin Deal circulation office phone numbers Arminy Rtin. Ctr 75938 pr"v0,. Civ 44341, Mil Tom or 6tmt Civ Tow my my Rte Athene Oto b8s1m. To morn Civ Max a , old most. Silt Sou subscribe now i government housing Only vim. � apr a the column the � or or nth author and Aro in no Way rpm Ntina the United Sutow government by Henry j. Taylor in advising his policy intimates that the Middle East problem now alarms him More than even the Vietnam War president John con 1$ looking behind the scenes at secret information regarding egyptian president carnal Abdel Nasser s two Day Kremlin visit which was extended. The Extension produced the president s conviction that a peril Point seems to have been reached. At one part of Nasser s Kremlin Deal he a extricated himself from Yemen. About half of Egypt s combat troops were pinned Down in far off Yemen at the Tail end of the red sea. Nasser had closer to 70,000 troops rather than the usually reported 38,000 there. Next he has reduced hit commitment in adjacent Aden supporting the terrorist push by Abdullah Hasneg t liberation  at russian insistence the result permits Egypt s first really workable military concentration against Israel. Israel miscalculated the time of the 1967 Arab attack. Premier Levi Eshkol maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan and other leaders told president Johnson thai they were convinced the arabs would not be ready before 1970. Now the Kremlin information of last week has jolted them and the president again. Johnson confidants John j. Mccloy and Robert b. Anderson both encountered total fanatical fatalism when the president had them probe Nasser. It is All in the hands of Allah he told them. And ill starred jordanian King Hussein who made a last minute jump to Nasser continues to insist that it was Allah not Israel s fight ers who caused last year s debacle. We arabs deserted Allah the King told the . Ambassador in Amman. Thus Allah deserted  israelis such As Dayan retain some respect for Hussein s army somewhat less for the syrian forces and no respect whatever for the egyptian military Structure. By Daylight after what Dayan Speaks of As the first Long night egyptian officers As a whole on fronts like the Sinai commandeered any available jeeps trucks and even ambulances and deserted the troops fleeing for their own safety to and across the Suez canal. The israeli leaders feel the egyptian Soldier is not Likely to forget this. But now the israelis Are again outnumbered and again outgunned by the renewed soviet arms Aid that has been delivered in fantastic quantities immensely greater than president Johnson has disclosed. Soviet strategy has been to Advance along the land Bridge in a military political out flanking of nato and All of Western Europe. Egypt fits in As the soviet Mediterranean lodgement the counterpart of its Caribbean lodgement in Cuba. Nasser is the soviet s Castro in the Middle East along with fanatical algerian president Houari Boum Dienne. The Quick israeli Victory last june got us off the Hook in our policy of being All things to All men which is at the Root of most weak Nesses in . Foreign policy. Like our african policy which is in a Sham Bles our israeli policy undeniably reflects a pitch for an ethnic vote in spite of the fact that our foreign policy should never never proceed on the basis of Domestic politics