European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes William january another 600d cr0p this y6ar there is a creeping respect for Liddy an hour with Gordon even though the ground rules excluded questions on the subject of is Well indeed he has lately been writing about prison and it Tran Spires he did not return from hell with empty he was the same Gordon buddy when he came out of jail As when he Wail in and indeed there is a creeping uni Versal respect for notwithstanding that one cannot philosophically excuse his failure to contribute his own special knowl Edge of the crimes committed in part under his auspices to the you for Gordon As for mostly to be sure members of the criminal informing is the supreme on this i columns comments Point he is almost entirely i say because he did that if he had been a jew mistakenly caught up in hitlers genocidal seeing the Light he would inform against his former associates on the grounds that they after really trying to kill otherwise his views on informants Are and perfectly captured in the ice cold water into which he catapults the Reader in his serving time in America in Esquire for those whose understanding of prison life is predicated upon Early Warner Brothers films depleting George raft banging a tin cup against Bis cell bars More the introspective musing of John Dean in based upon his four months of tender Loving care As the prize Canary of the watergate special prosecution i offer first my Creden those credentials turned to be Over so months in a total of eight hed have been there yet except a democratic president came along with enough internal Security on the subject of watergate to risk issuing a but there was no attempt to bargain with Gordon what he he whether he believes he was victimized by his us we do not we know Only that he uses a machiavellian in which the rights of the Prince go substantially unchallenged and the duties of the princes underlings Are unquestioningly Gordon buddy advises us that in prison there Are roughly speaking five classes of beginning at the Bottom Are the these need the Protection of solitary confinement or else sanctuaries in other prisons where they Are not known otherwise they says quite routinely the free Market costs of arranging for such an execution is said to be five Cartons of next there Are these Are men who Are considered and there fore contemptible Given Over to tawdry and perverse pleasures a society within a treated As an isolated then there Are the drug these Are Icib one because in order to indulge their habits it is necessary that they use their a class above these is what Liddy Calls the men of a High level of unattached generally and fiercely ind Epen int opinions air Sud in int columns and cartoons on this Paga Capra tank Tynota of Tea authors and Aro in no Way to a cont Darid As Ftp ranting in m Tea Stan and Stritt or Tea uni lad Statas one gathers that Liddy belonged to that which is the Aris these Are those accused As buddy fastidiously puts it of being Mem Bers of organized crime once these tend to be intelligent More in they Ore men whose contacts in the outside world Are sufficient to make them a credible Force even within what is surprising is that Gordon who is associated in the watergate epoch As the number one should find the anti libertarian Hierarchy in question so although buddy exhibited exemplary Powers of Powers which can be called he has not taken to a suitable conclusion a philosophy that led him to follow the deeply mistaken instructions of his these after All were justified on the grounds that the United states is in the business of defend ing a free society such a society As was imperilled during the late 60s and Early 70s by people who took the Law into own remember civil disobedience Gordon having received the nod from the proceeded to take the Law into his own and he has not publicly committed himself to ask the question whether the nod from the Prince was a Call to arms for the Freedom and glory of his country or whether the Prince was moving paunch ily towards the gratification of his narrow if disillusion comes to Gordon and i think one Day it one will want to read about because he is a Man of superhuman 1c Washington Star Anthony Lewis Brown returning to normalcy for the last 20 governors of California have held an annual prayer Jerry Browns first turn at the two years was one of the occasions that fixed him in the Public mind As far the Community leaders and politicians who turned up in 1976 found fruit and cheese instead of the usual a sufi Indian dancers and a Rock band a pop anthropologist admired by the Gregory spoke about peyote riles and Redd from the ancient at this years leaders of the state Senate and Assembly read from the Dom Helder the progressive Catholic archbishop from spoke about social an Oak land High school choir Sang gospel and the 700 guests had Orange mashed potatoes and pancakes stuffed with creamed it is Back to normalcy with Jerry Brown these and not Only at the prayer he used Tobe known for saying that Small is Beautiful and that we Are in an Era of now he talks More about economic development and the business in his state budget message last week he said this is still a land of its still a place where new new beginnings if we slip Back and decline As a it will be because of thinking that looks to the nineteenth Century instead of the the More upbeat sounds coming from the Young governor evidently reflect his political his old talk about limits and about the uselessness of government programs offended important groups state employ he has similarly adjusted his position on a sensitive farm the 160acre Limi tation on the land any one Farmer is sup posed to irrigate with water from Federal projects a year ago Brown was for strict enforcement of the but now he says that California needs permanent exemptions from it the governor is up for reelection this and no one doubts that he will be run when he made his state of the state speech to the legislature this Call ing for various new programs and for billion in property tax Assembly Man Willie Brown said i think its a 1978 Campaign including Jimmy Carters believe he has More in mind than Brown has not by any Means become a Runof Hemill unpredictability remains an important part of his political one does not hear much about buddhism anymore but his advisor on the Jacques insists that he is still his budget message included such offbeat Energy ideas As build ing giant with 100foot to generate and using Wood chips converted into Gas to heat the state Capi he ended his state of the state speech in characteristically visionary tone we Are part of a Pacific culture United by his try and geography with the emerging sector of this but his eccentricity is strictly atthe prayer Brown said he usually hesitated to express his personal thoughts in Public but could not help being overcome when i see the diversity before he spoke of the mix of native Ameri mexican american own he sees in the Cross a Symbol of Between our desires and what we know often to be Between this world and the be tween our wealth and spiritual be tween what we say and we have to reach and constantly con front the the As we see what a Small place and How isolated this planet perhaps we will sense a Little More profoundly the dependence we All have on the everlasting spirit out of which All of us come and indeed to which All of us the curious thing about Jeny Brown is that he states such thoughts in a voice utterly without almost without he might be Reading a list of Sta the confounding the seems to say that nothing on the weekend of Hubert Humphreys Jerry Brown tells the extent that he represents the new politics How much our politics has Hubert even in his practice of of Loveren the politics of of Osmym Limtt