European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes a Aust 1977 William Safire those unanswered Lance questions you have Uken clucked sen Abo cubic off to bomb director Ben Lance last no invest if Tuott needed Charles ranking Republican an s commit solemnly agreed president Carter reaffirmed fall in hit old impeccable editorial writers on ulc new York times and Washington Paul Tut tufted gently at this Brazen awaiting did a Deal fall apart t the Fri prepared a report based on the aborted investigation and submitted to the White House before lances Senate confirmation hearings Robert the improperly with held this disturbing information from the has up Schutz passed on Thea evidence of an earlier pattern of misapplication of funds to comptroller John Heimann or Only a report from Carters new is he still trying to contain the inquiry to Ler of the by not asking the mis the Chicago loan the modified limited Ler of the by not asking the 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double deals or has his inquiry been limited inc Chi Cagg sweetheart Loon John Aikwij the Only cogent question of the hear met about lances collateral on Lim can Yugu loan the Wil Tuss Sud Junly Raul my Lumumba or such Trilling Aliice had provi nobly the ii Ian Wilh what Why a on the assist Eplion that most us his Chicago loan was by his Georgia Bank what happened at first Chicago when the Price dropped from 16 to 8 did first a Izeogu Call the or demand More As it surely would do Wilh Normal borrow Era in Loans 6 what Are the terms of the Luan made to Laife by the Butcher Brothers of ten whom Lance Blun introduced to Secretary of Treasury Biu Netuhal will the comptroller look or u triangular relationship Between manufacturers and the Butcher Brothers under in code and after lot 1975 decision in versus the attorney in Atlanta began an investigation into misapplication of funds in Lance banking on one Day president elect Carter named Lance to his Cah Iriel John Slakes ordered the investigation Over the objections of his invest a Nixon was then continued in the attorneys office by lances Griffin Stokes denies a quid pro and quit last week die Chicago loan the modified it since questions were raised about i Junces Wheeling and Carter fund raisers have bunched a frantic angcl4iunl to find an investor to buy he Lance Bank Slock at about million Over us Market value in my at the inflated the sate would be a since it would not involve control what of the other who like eel a share for a Stock sell ing at to is the Sec asleep will team player bum Enthat irs not consider the payoff Premium lobe Ordinary income 10 time Magazine led die Way into this with Newsweek follow ing the Atlanta Constitution must have it bisted pressure from 1uvx to suppress this but almost everyone elite la waiting for the Only senator to have voted against the pinot Confirma to the Quiston sure to be i Flur Hie truth been forced out you during the thu first scandal of the Carter it inti James Kitpatrick Vaskys Book is a Public service As Giro Utah the Asjes tuvl1 in Wiringa do no Inake a Rigau but they do make a this was i Pitt of the Wittert Jale airy that Wun How never got vice or Ulaky Tiaw Hiis a most useful task in putting inc Story into belter a Ikea blockbuster of a it didst Start will been out Lor sever a us made the bestseller Listi in Washin blon and new in u fifth said and attracted excellent reviews in the smelt or it Ouhl to be must Reading Exah for those despised Richard Nixon and for those so it might lit be must Reading also for All of in the news business thoughtful sobering Reading to do a measure of penance Vaskys iwo Phil Ling conclusion cannot be easily evaded Over ii period of 35 years Nihi Nii coverup of his our greatest wire Orvices and networks perpetrated continuing cover Filja of their they gave Nixon Pride ots sors Little More than a a and a tap on the Ninon himself they Lasky puts it on thu Docu a whited it Adda up to a massive application Rotthe old double Standard one Standard for the likes of Kunne Dayjohn son another quite Tor the likes of Nixon Agnew such a Standard works Telescope locally viewed from one certain events loom viewed irom the other Hie same events Dwin dle 10 one of the charges against to pick at was that he ordered the wiretapping of various enemies and it no in this it now Nixon was f Piker lie tapped a few phones Here and in a kind of retail Kennedy and Johnson tapped them the watergate breaking was the work of political this was a criminal not to be condone but in any fair comparison with previous democratic the he publicans bungled efforts of were a during the Campaign of Lyndon Johnsons political spies Clung to Barry Goldwater like the casing on a there were Goldwater complained he was at the wrong end of the i makes All the during Nixon gubernatorial Campaign of and again the presidential Campaign of the merry pranks of a researcher ear the democratic National struck almost everyone As in the Campaign of the dirty tricks of Donald Republican were held up As Horny exam plot of vicious was a double Standard working Here spire Agnew was savagely attacked by the Liberal press for his Light reference to a sleeping correspondent As the at Jap Lasky makes the Point that Franklin too Cavell made Antisemitic Crackel in the presence of they treated his bigotry As off the professional journalism societies and press associations have been having to incs for the past few years about the governments use of newsmen real newsmen or phony ones to gather Intelli during the lls4 at Johnsons the Fri ran a highly successful cover by equipping Fri agents with faked press credentials How come none Otuwa Ever got out Vaskys examples go on and did 4i j generic noun embrace the misuse of the lots a Liq Wasdal the first in this should to infer Las the leading Media urged us infer that Nixon was effectively bribed by milk Oil airline inter ests and the like1 pm in proper perspex Nixon of lenses were simply the Catchall charge against Nom that he was that be was Dull Culous he was of the adulterous John comic slim with his Paramour in the while Houtie whenever Jackie was away Johnson Ana Truman turned the air Blue with their in a Competition among Allstar Nixon make the second none of this excuses Pitons conduct none of this even explains but compendium of unpretty precedents is a Public service All the
