European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 07, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes James Reston tuesday june 7, 1977  relations worrying europeans it s y0ur own fault f0r beim6 built that Way .-sov1et relations arc very much on the minds of Western european officials these Days. They Are saying nothing i Public but privately they express concern about the mounting criticism Between the new administration in Washington and the aging regime in  the giants quarrel the nations in Between probably exaggerate the differences but their edginess illustrates the fragility of detente and the dangers of mis understanding whenever political changes take place in the White House or the Krem  the events that have led to this concern arc the following the failure of the Vance Brezhnev efforts to reach a Compromise on the Strate Gic arms talks recently in the soviet columns comments capital a disappointment not removed by the More amiable discussions Between Secretary Vance and foreign minister Gromyko later in Geneva. The charge of treason by the soviet Union against a prominent human right activist Anatoly Shch Aransky and the Public criticism of this charge by the stat department and the White House. The increasing shipment of soviet arms to the turbulent areas of Africa and the Extension of cuban military activity from Angola to Ethiopia. The decline of soviet exit visas for jews seeking to leave the country an most recently what seems to be a reluctance to Issue visas to Western reporters seeking to enter the soviet Union. Finally what seems to be increased jamming of Western radio broadcasts beamed at the soviet  other events seem to be adding to the uncertainty in the relations betwee the two major nuclear states. First the sudden and unexplained dismissal of pres ident Nikolai Podgorny from the soviet politburo has suggested that the struggle for succession to Leonid Brezhnev has already  second the review of the Helsinki agreement on human rights at Belgraden june is has forced both sides to prepare their cases on this divisive Issue and led twosome anxiety Here in Paris that Belgrade May Force a confrontation betwee Moscow and Washington that May inter Fere with the efforts to reach a second strategic arms  is difficult to get an accurate Reading on the significance of these events because soviet officials have suddenly shown Little interest in discussing these questions with reporters or even with Western diplomats. For example. Soviet officials m London refused to Issue a visa to this reporter an suggested that it might be available in Paris but the soviet embassy there also declined on the ground that it had not been instructed by officials in Moscow to do , it was disclosed in washing ton that the United states will soon deploy More accurate and powerful missile Ca Pable of destroying soviet missiles in their silos a dispatch in the new York time from Washington said that the Mark 12 warhead would be deployed in two stages in october when the air Force starts in stalling an improved guidance system in its minuteman 3 land based missiles and to opinion a Orew i in the column ind Carloni  Mgo apr it eau of Ira Uin Orl is of Tow Itari Andis Peld a  in 1979 when a More destructive warheads attached to these missiles. The White House press Secretary Jody Powell commenting on this information said that if the soviet Union were willing to undertake serious negotiations on the Limi tation of strategic weapons the unite states could make changes in its plans to deploy the new weapons a statement that was interpreted Here As diplomacy by headlines. Powell declined to characterize his statement As a bargaining Chip in the Salt if  in Paris and in London Are not taking this All too seriously but they fee that the soviet Union is entering a delicate period of internal political change when excessive controversy Over human rights and strategic arms could impede Progress on  French foreign minister Louis do Gui Rigaud said in a private interview that while France would support preside Tcarter s emphasis on human rights it would not go to the Belgrade conference in a spirit of  noted that the Belgrade meeting was merely procedural to arrange the Agenda for a meeting of under secretaries in octo Ber and that it might be belter to wait until after Brezhnev s visit to Paris this month and even until the autumn before reaching any definitive conclusions about the relations Between the soviet Union and the  is also the View of senior officials in London. It takes some time they note for Moscow to adjust to a new administration in Washington and to arrange their own political affairs at a time of change in Moscow. Meanwhile they add they will bewitching a lot and speaking very Little. A new York Tirum Roy Wilkins . Gof rid of Nixon us in time the nation now knows in Blunt an unsympathetic terms How former presi Dent Richard Nixon fell about burglaries and break ins directed at those who did t agree with his administration s  the president does it that Means thai it is not illegal he told David Frost inthe third install enl of their videotaped  the speculators All across the coun try who claimed that the former president would have hailed the break in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg s psychiatrist had he known about it have their answer he would have approved because he thought it was not  was unable to recall any Conversa Tion in which John Ehrlichman a presiden tial aide told him that the illegal operation was planned. He May have. And if he had i would have said go right ahead " the Frost interview quotes Nixon As follows if the president if. If for example approves something approves an action because of the National Security or in Thi Scase because of a threat to internal peace and order of of significant magnitude then the president s decision in that in stance is one that enables those who carry it out to carry it out without violating a  or. Nixon stammered and objected when asked the next natural question on whether the president could order murder and have u legalized in this  Are degrees there Are nuances "ok.w3w. A want and Thanh Long Sawr. An who wants a cuban. An who wants a 6qowkfan a soviet. An a. " which Are difficult to explain was the reply that came from the former presi Dent. He agreed that the dividing line would be the president s judgment. It was this line of presidential exeunt advanced not by or. Nixon but by one of his aides that was rejected by the Sedat watergate committee july 25, 1979, or. Ehrlichman told the committee on hat Date that or. Nix i had inherent authority to authorize to a Fielding burglary for the Ellsberg papirs even if he bad not specifically done to. Under such a thesis president might approve murder or a Bank robbery to obtain classified document according to sen. Herman Talmadge of Goor Gia. In a word we have an sex president who regards himself As being above the us to get what Are called classified document could in the Case of some president judg ment Call for the extreme penalty murder. Millions of people in this country Hye More than a Mere feeling about this Notti ability the Black americans. It was Only 35 or 40 years ago that Lynching Roma Holiday style went out of fashion. Since then lacking roman Holiday aspects the lower courts have taken Over and Many Black people especially among the youth have been swept into the ranks of lynched but legally. Every Man woman and child who u nonwhite fears Lynching. They dread it with a nameless fear whether they have actual knowledge or  to have the signal for murder come from the White House Black americans lose no Opportunity to act Ake other Ameri cans. They have their dissidents too like Ellsberg. The american people got rid of or. Nixon just in time. Co r