European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 3, 1969 the stars and stripes Page William p. Buckley or. Some leftists just love to be loved it has been remarked about Richard Nixon that he has made the Effort having been elected president to embrace dissident political factions by honeyed ecu men isms. He has earned a Short season s Tranquility or. Tom Wicker for instance could t find the grounds to criticize or. Nix on s first press conference but he will he will never underestimate the willpower of ideology. I am myself experienced in the difficulties faced by or. Nixon my Tatis Mut Andis. I am not aware that i have made such overtures As the president has made to gentlemen of the left to come on Over to my tent folks. But the disconcerting thing about Many of the lefties is that they consider themselves to have been courted even by gentlemen who Are barely aware of their existence a form of narcissism no doubt which is a very useful affliction in some people particularly in those who if they did not love themselves would eliminate the entire potential Field. For instance Well for instance or. Jack Newfield. Stop. Have you Ever heard of him i mean other than you curators of the ideological zoos Well or. New Field thinks you have thus he writes matter of factly in a re cent Book review everyone knew i was a personal Friend of Robert Kennedy  everyone being so far As i can figure it everyone except everyone who did t know that Jack Newfield was a Friend of Robert Kennedy indeed who did t know who Jack Newfield was a Friend of indeed who did t know who Jack Newfield was or for that matter is. Well i know who Jack Newfield is and indeed i even recognize him on sight because he approached me on an air plane one time last Spring and chit chatted with me for quit a couple of minutes about this and that. And that very evening at Nashville term., spying me in the lobby of the hotel he introduced me to or. Tom Hayden who is the founder sort of of the students for democratic action. Or. Hoyden greeted me about As cmdr. Bucher would Greet the prime minister of North Korea if he happened on him at a Motel at Nashville Tenn leaving or. Newfield who is advancing upon Middle age transparently Terri fied at having emulated such de cadent Middle class values As civility leaving him in a word positively uptight. So or. Newfield looked for an Opportunity to affirm the Fidelity of his vows to incivility and has done so by proclaiming his per Sonal immunity from my Blandishments which if he proved it would gain him that immortality he is otherwise unlikely to earn. We. F. Buckley he announces in print drawling obviously Over the sainted syllables taking the same pleasure experienced by the Jacobi Nical court that sent the King to the Guillotine has Al ways been the favorite right Winger among literary radicals. His social friendships with Murray Kempton Dwight Macdonald and Norman Mailer have been Well publicized. Buckley in fact has seemed to covet and thrive on these relationships they give him. Social  now i have enormous Admira Tion for the gentlemen in ques Tion and it is True that i have from time to time met socially with them at which meetings we have discussed everything on Earth save possibly or. Jack Newfield. But concerning social respectability i am certain that no three people on Earth would More quickly agree with me than the gentlemen in question on the proposition that did i covet it i would perhaps begin by avoid ing rather than soliciting their company. I last broke bread with or. Mailer in 1964, with or. Mac Donald in 1960, with or. Kemp ton in 1967. I should be Happy to share breakfast with them Tomor Row morning. But it can hardly be suggested that anything i covet that ardently i should Pur sue that insolently except by or. Newfield who everybody knows was a Friend of Bobby Kennedy. Then there is or. Jimmy Breslin who has announced in his syndicated column that i head his list of people he will not nod to during 1969. It is Good that he published this Declara Tion else his proscription might have gone unnoticed inasmuch As any actuary will give you a thou Sand to one that i would not in the course of a typical year find myself so situated As to give or. Breslin the Opportunity to deny me his regal nod. He thinks he s such a big shot writes or. A in August in Miami Beach he went into a meeting and at the end he said that anybody who had Jimmy Breslin hanging around him deserved a  a so. What i said commenting on that morning s column by or. Breslin reporting that John Wayne had travelled directly from the podium of the Republican convention to the bar at the nearest hotel was that so would i have done if i had had or. Breslin following me. I thought this at the time to be an exercise in rhetorical moderation inasmuch As when looking for a bar and in the company of or. Breslin one hardly needs to search out an adjacent hotel. Well Well. Or. Nixon will not find it adequate coveting social respectability to seek out or. Newfield and he must not after a bout with or. Breslin seek out the narcotic Relief of the White House bar. But these Are among the Many trials of or. Nixon As everyone knows everyone at least who knows who or. New Field is and then some. I Washington Star Syndicate Henry j. Taylor Mideast Relief planned below Olympus by Interlandi president Nixon will put Back on the rails a vast Basic plan to relieve the underlying explosive pressures in the Middle East. He believes that unless some thing is done so compelling Valu Able and dramatic that no mid East nation can refuse to go along both the wretched poverty and the political dynamite will re main expand and ultimately explode. The president views the vital Mideast factors As three hatred refugees and water. He sees the three As interrelated As a set of chinese Ivory balls each inside the other and thus this inter re lation defines the Only feasible approach for a plan. The plan then something of its history the placing in the Middle East of three huge Salt water distilling plants nuclear powered two on the Mediterranean coast and the third at the North end of the Gulf of Aqaba on the red sea. They would produce a billion Gallons of Sweet water a Day. What irrigation has done so marvellously for California s Imperial Valley the Sweet water would do for thousands of Square Miles that have never supported human life other than on a no Madic basis. The byproduct electric Power carries obvious rewards and is carefully integrated into the pro Gram. There Are approximately a Mil lion Arab refugees dating from the 1948 Israel Arab War. These new Fertile lands stretching from the Barren areas of Egypt to North Jordan and beyond would be open for their settlement unbelievable wretchedness and utter despair changed to productivity. It would revolutionize the area from the Nile to the euphrates. The construction period itself would Supply an immediate safety valve. Tens of thousands of these displaced and unskilled people would be required to build the plants pipelines irrigation system reservoirs and Power Grid. The first Plant would produce about 400 million Gallons of Sweet water a Day. This alone would equal the total natural flow of the Jordan River. The three plants would be built and operated by the International atomic Energy Agency Long headquartered in Vienna. The full Range of enemies in the is Rael Arab War All of them Are members of the Iaea. Ail Are officially qualified to join in the formation plans within the Iaea. Moreover our country already has allocated to the Iaea More than sufficient uranium fuel Foi the need of All three plants. The project would be self sus Taining which is a critical Factor so far As Congress and the american people Are concerned. The initial requirement would be for approximately $200 million to begin constructing the first part of the three Plant system. For this there would be set. Up a chartered corporation like com sat. Both the water and electricity could be sold at relatively Low prices and still meet the require ments of a Good self sustaining profit. The problem is neither Finan Cial nor physical. Both Are prac tical. The problem is political and this would be hopeless were the plan less bold and the regards to the people of the Middle East less great c 1969 United feature Syndicate inc. It s o new kind of hero his ship to the enemy1."he surrendered . Ter Horst Nixon s press Secretary on Way up these Are the Day when the Young Man who Speaks for presi Dent Nixon to the rest of the world must wonder Why he did t make a career out of professional football or stick to guiding tourists through the artificial Jungle of Disneyland. Instead 29-year-old Ronald it. Ziegler the Whit House news the opinion sex greeted in the column and cartoon on thu i a represent Tho a of the author and re in no Wayto be considered a repro Yonting the View of the Star and i tripe it of or of the Unius state government Secretary is undergoing his or Deal by fire in one of Mot ulcer producing jobs in government. At least twice daily Ziegler must fac he merciless question ing of White House correspondents eager to pry into every cranny of the new administration. It it a Job for which there is no training except on the Job a position in which on ill of the Tongue or one discovered false failed not Only would ruin Zieg Ler career but might seriously damage Nixon standing with the voters or in the Kremlin. If he Ever master his Job the Only diploma will be the Opportunity to come Back the follow ing Day Foi Moffo the same. It if a consensus of reporters mean anything a Leger s performance thu far indicates that to just might Mak it. The first Day of the Nixon and  have been trying one for leg a. A nearly opened a Pandora s Box by offhandedly laying that Nixon first session with the National Security Council had dealt with Vietnam. Before he took the Job Ziegler scrimmage with the press Dur ing Nixon s transition period in new York. He also got advice from George Christian lbs s news Secretary on How to anticipate the  Christian so shrewdly Bland or blandly shrewd that the or St dubbed him old Blabbermouth fid Vised Ziegler it vhf to bring up a subject he was t prepared to talk about in greater detail. And to keep in Reserve the answers to questions that probably will not be asked but just might be. When hard pressed he May re mind reporters that Herbert Klein Nixon s director of communications and a Veteran at parrying questions is Here to Back up what i am  Ziegler deserves Good grades for turning in a creditable performance thus far in one of the world s most demanding Job. He s a Man to keep your Eye on o North american new paper Allano