European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and strip Rasputin january 1978 Washington up1 Patrick former head of four big City police says Edgar Hoover was the publicity hungry Rasputin of american Law enforcement who did not 1978 i i a Nuver a inf deserve his Tough reputation As Scourge of sex big City cop Leader says his reputation As a Scourge of once idolized lies with lots of publicity deserve his reputation As a Scourge of criticism of Hoover is nothing new these but Seldom has it come from within the very la enforcement Community that once idolized in his new sex cop Murphy says the late Fri director built up a seemingly impressive record of crime busting by going after cheap Victo results of Survey of freshmen students now More materialistic Washington up a nationwide Survey of nearly freshmen Indi Cates College students Are becoming less Radical and increasingly they also May be among the staunches supporters of president Carters Energy environmental pollution and consumer Protection Are considered the major National issues for most students in results of the 12lh annual Survey of enter ing freshmen by the University of califor Nikalos Angeles and the american Council on education in but the percentage of students wanting to be very Well off financially Rose to Roth criticize tax proposal Washington William said saturday that president Carters tax proposals will soak the Middle class and that Many taxpayers will have to pay More instead of John Kenneth Galbraith and other Liber Al democratic economists also opposed Carters saying More Money should go to the the message from the presidents tax message is soak the Middle said fort nine percent of the taxpayers will be penalized if the Carter proposal to replace the personal exemptions with a j240 tax credit is under Carters Roth higher taxes would have to be paid by single taxpayers earning Over married couples earning More than families of three earning Over and families of four earning or add these proposed new taxes to the social Security tax increase and the new Energy taxes waiting in the and you Are squeezing the life out of working Amer Roth theres going to be a taxpayers revolt in this and Middle income taxpayers Are going to Lead in a letter to said that the same economists who urged Carter to Cut taxes had urged president Gerald Ford to pass the tax Cut of what happened was an increase in savings but very Little change in the High rates of inflation and in Galbraith we think it is permissible to note the failure of this action in respect to the underprivileged groups had much to do with the election outcome in he wrote president Ford in a very real the victim and you were the beneficiary of this economic advice the advice now being offered once Etc to upgrade minorities Washington a the Federal Trade commission says it will hire and promote More members of minority groups to the top professional positions in the chairman Michael Pertschuk says the Agency Hopes to have 17 percent of its lawyers from minority groups in five percent in the 1977 continuing a steady jump from percent in the percentage saying a key reason to attend College is to be Able to make More Money Rose from percent in 1971 to percent of today the evidence supports the notion that students Are becoming increasingly mate said Urcla Alexander director of the in new freshmen at s4b two and fou year colleges and universities completed the of responses from 374 schools were used to compute National statistically adjusted to represent the nations approximate million firs time Energy conservation replaced the environment As the biggest Issue among fresh with percent saying the government is not doing enough to discourage Astin said the results show students strongly support conservation programs despite the Many pressure groups that live opposed president Carters Energy the Survey indicated that percent of the students describe themselves As Middleon therond the High est since the number considering themselves conservative or far right has remained at 15 to 17 percent during the last seven Astin the increase in the moderates Means there now Are fewer lib eral and far left but he noted that views once considered Liberal such As favourable attitudes toward marijuana and women rights Are now a part of the mainstream of Opl non among today College other Survey results for the first time More than half percent of freshmen support the legalization of the percentage of students support ing busing to achieve racial imbalance Rose from 37 percent in 1976 to percent this More students than Ever per cent say an important reason for going to College is to improve Basic such As Reading and those Tonearm bandits cant be All bad Eleanor a patient in the occupational therapy department at Southern Nevada memorial Hospital at Las tones her Muscles with a popu Lar new piece of equipment a Slot a therapist Chuck Scharm standing says the machine Ftp of f heir rated limbs and coordinating us of their no Jackpot up Ries with lots of publicity assiduously avoiding such difficult la enforcement assignments As organized narcotics and Street Murphy Hoover put his Money on such easy winners As kid where the criminals were usually dumb and Clumsy and the crime was susceptible to solution within a Short period of Murphy served As chief or commissioner of police in new like his father and brother before he started As a patrolman and in washing and he acknowledges that he and his col leagues lived in silence for years knowing of the Hoover Only those of us who have chosen to devote our lives to Law and who have had to suffer the suffocating presence of the possess the Dubi Ous distinction of having had to live silently with the truth about this Mon Murphy our silence was advisable if not wholly commendable because of who operated behind the scenes As the unquestioned Rasputin of american Law in Murphys comments about Hoover and the although noteworthy considering their comprise just one segment of his most of the volume recounts his experiences As a reformer called to Lead four police departments stained by corruption Many of his ideas run counter to accepted precepts of police reemphasize patrol cars he recommends consolidation of Small Community police departments into regional or county says Many depart ments have become infatuated with fancy hardware and swat1 and urges a de emphasis on patrol car teams in favor of the old time neighbourhood foot patrol recalling Tus own Murphy says being in a Cruiser car was like trying to relate to an alien society from behind the windows of a Low hovering flying to detective he contends that the worst corruption can often be found in a police departments detective for All their and uncanny ability to make headlines and especially in the press he detectives tend to make an arguably insignificant contribution to the control he is also hard on his colleagues saving police chiefs lend to be terribly unworldly with a literal not a sophisticated conservatism in their and a deep seated insecurity in their attitudes about themselves and about he is on Hoover and Slaw the he is the Only completely professional la enforcement Agency in country and acknowledge Fiat Hoover Mace Many contributions to police but he also accuses Hoover of a Long list of ranging from alleged racism to is a bashing a relationship truth local Pouce based on menace and Mutual mistrust to those of us concerned about the night of the american citizen tote Best n country to better Law noted equestrian killed a d John known Eques