European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              August 17, the stars and stripes Page 9. Buckley or. Does the greek Junta torture its foes. . 111. The most popular charge inst the revolutionary govern Aga of or Papadopoulos in. It it a in. Lower by the us. Of fore and it a hit. . By Tor ure concerning the first charge re is no doubting the truth of Ere is no Freedom in Greece Olav to agitate let Alon. Con Pire against the government. It precisely because Uch free jams perversely used had brought Greece to the Bryk of sin the Spring of 1967 that the colonels acted. One would hardly suppose that having overthrown the greek  Tion they would deprive them selves of the rationale for having done so by instantly resuming life at it was before. On the matter of torture the colonels Are consistent Adamant and categorical in their denials that torture has Ever been an instrument of policy. Even so the . Rages and some of the very Best of people Are profoundly convinced that torture is endemic in Greece. The most eloquent indictment is by a Young lawyer in Massachusetts in an unpublished article entitled Athens by Day and  or. James Becket was associated with or. James mar Reco an englishman and to Gether they spent time in Greece in january of this year on behalf of amnesty International investigating the charges of torture. Both gentlemen came away con Vinced of the Junta s guilt and the report by amnesty International received wide publicity. The reaction of the Junta was to invite to Greece to look into the charges two groups of investigators one of them the red Cross the other a delegation of five members of the British parliament from All three of the political parties. The red Cross has issued its report after cautious diligent investigation. The 30-Page report on Greece concludes Only that it is impossible to go further than to report that the allegations of torture a Are directly contradicted by the alleged torturers and b that they Are circumstantially implausible which How Ever does not make them necessarily false. The British parliament Mem Bers went to Leros the Island that serves As a detention Sta Tion for the political dissidents who by the Way totalled 2,423 persons As of last March when or. Andreas Papandreou was touring Europe insisting that "50,000 greeks wer. Imprisoned. It should be noted that the detention Laws under which the prisoners Are held were enacted by predecessor democratic governments. Moreover a substantial number of the detainees As one must be careful to Call them so As to distinguish them from convicted criminals carry the key to their own jail doors the Promise not to engage in subversive political activity which they decline to use. The British delegation went to Leros on the condition that its members be permitted to seek out any prisoners they chose and talk to them through their own inter Preter. Only two charged that they had in tortured. One prisoner or. Gordon Bagier subsequently reported at a pres con Ference or. Ambatielos had a scar on his foot. We Are not in a position to know definitely nor to say that this was caused by ill  but More significantly or. Bagier added in behalf of himself and his col leagues i think if is fair to say that in no circles have we yet found anyone even in this Camp who was prepared to directly accuse the rulers or. Papa Dopoulos and or. Pattakos those who Are in charge of the coun try of directing any brutality or  the ease against the Junta is not sustained As of this moment by documented charges of Tor Ture As state policy. Washngton Star k. Inc. Negro supporters of Nixon constitute a lonely minority but fhe Good Guys always Wear while Hafs Roy Wilkins no loud cheering could be heard from negro citizens As the Republican party nominated Rich Ard m. Nixon to be president and gov. Spiro t. Agnew of Maryland to be vice president. Unquestionably there Are negro supporters of Nixon and Many More of the Republican party but these form an already lonely minority. The generality of Black citizens Juit does not cot ton to Nixon. They would be hard put to list any great wrongs he has committed on civil rights issues. How Ever he does not warm them he does not convince them. In part this is due not to Nixon but to his Wing of the Republican party. The platform adopted at Miami contains the Republican doctrine that the states should determine what is Best not the Federal government. We Are particularly deter mined reads a passage employing emphasis in an unusual platform spot to revise the Grant in Aid system and substitute Block Grants wherever pos  ringing by said but it Means underneath that the gop is determined to work for full state control Over Federal funds Al located to rhe 50 jurisdictions. If this formula should win next november the other Federal pro Grams which have aided the Black population would follow the teachers corps into state control. Under legislation enacted in the last Congress the states control the teachers corps funds through the Block Grant formula and they decide what school districts will get funds for additional teachers. A goodly part of the struggle of negro americans for equitable treatment has been against a system by which billions of fed eral dollars have been distributed racially by the states on either a tiny Token or a total exclusion basis. The gop at the opinion sex piqued in the Cote mini Miami asserted its particular de termination to revert to a sys tem by which negroes have Al ways come out at the Little end of the Horn. The platform omits any men Tion in connection with employ ment of the duty of the Federal government to Backstop a Job program with Federal and state employment. The whole problem is left to private business enter prise. Now business has been moving steadily and with sur prising concern for the general society to provide jobs but no businessman contends that Busi Ness can provide All the jobs needed. Then of course the gop bore Down As was expected on the crime and Law and order bit. They improved slightly on the 1964 language by adding the word  that word How Ever is subject to the interpretation of any policeman or Little officeholder. Responding it is said to Dixie Arm twisting Nixon chose Agnew As his running mate. The negro citizens of Maryland who sup ported Agnew against an avowed housing segregationist candidate Are today not so sure that Agnew is a Daniel come to judgment. They say he has changed. He appears to have joined the crackdown school of thought on negro protest. He says he is for civil rights but against civil disobedience. There is a line where negro protest stops and negro disruption and destruction begin. Negroes who Are for Law and order with Justice Are troubled Over whether Agnew and the gop devotees know where that line is. As All but the wild Black Mili Tants seem to realize a hard line on civil rights is spreading. The republicans had Only 26 negro delegates out of 1,333 less than 2 per cent. Strictly a doodling percentage not a growth figure. T in Ferij Itei Grid  a "d1 c .11 ? shift in soviet leadership possible i. I �  t  i l. A c 11 c i to i in let m m u r ,., reprint to in e Autler and Are in no Way ? a id erect apr it no the 61th sur a 8tr a be assumed then that he knows How the current struggle on the Issue of liberalization is going inside Russia and is hedging against a coming Victory of re formers there too. The latest word from the mos cow Central committee is Tough the committee says Lenin emphasized it is impossible to live in a society and a free from that  and it rules out any form of Bourgeois Freedom for the soviet Union. The argument Are intense and As usual n communist documents leave out the questions. But the very firmness of the rejection of any demands for Freedom shows that the demands must be growing under the sur face to the Point that the Krem Lin leadership considers that its Power is in danger. The czechoslovak evian communists have begun to question openly several of the key Doc Trines of Lenin on which the so Viet system is based. There s a likelihood that the same Chal Lenges to the official position Are spreading among men near the top or even among a few at the top in Moscow. It took two years from Nikta Khrushchev s Bac Down in the 1962 cuban crisis to his Down fall. But things Are moving faster now in the communist world As Well. The chances Are that it will not be nearly so Long after the czechoslovakian crisis before the next Moscow crisis erupts and it could be the one that ends the cold War. La woo. Nj.i-1-ij, inc