European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1978 William Safire the Shaheen report1 a blatant Whitewash your depart ment of Justice has just declared the attorney general and the president inno ocum of obstruction of Justice when they obliged a congressman under criminal investigation and fired the prosecutor who was bothering the carefully considered judgment exonerating Ull concerned at the top came on the Basin of the Shaheen report rhymes with Dean submitted by Michael head of what is now laughingly called the office of professional  at this intrepid self investigation consisted solely of collecting sworn statements from it Justice officials plus the president whose statement was not sworn to Doest spend his weekends at Camp affix one trembles at the police brutality that must have been employed to wring those self serving press releases out of this a dirty seems that everybody asserted that the attorney general is kept totally isolated from the pc rations no his criminal except when it Imus to firing and that the obstruction of Justice that took place was merely the result of inc toss and stupid not wire assured of the presidents innocence by his department of Justice be cause Carter signed n letter claiming he was an innocent the solicitor Gener Al of the United slates Calls Tinl an incs i Gat ivc finding in which he happily i owe renders of this space an apology for writing recently that the in his unforgettable 12 press  lied Ihrcke times twice in de Nying he had interfered in the in Sion once in saying he knew nothing of the Case until it was highly Tinl was lie lied four times that As reporter Charles Babcock pointed Oul on the front Page of the Washington Carter said in that press conference As far As any in pcs ligation of members of How i am not familiar with that at All and it was never mentioned to not this weeks  ing whatever that Means Carter state which is the basis for the declaration of admits i heard this from my congressional Liaison Frank a few minutes before the press strike i am not familiar with that us ii turns out the president was indeed thai raises a few other questions from whom did Moore learn according to Only thai morning of the Eilberg flood investigations was it mentioned in the presidents Black briefing and if who prepared that who else in the White House knew that Joshua til Berg had Good reason for wanting the pres ident to fire the attorney in Philadelphia did Wilborg conspire with Daniel mood to obstruct and did Kilburg tape his Call with Carter despite the farrago of falsehood that emanated from the president on the possibility exists that Carter is telling the truth about doing a political favor for Eilberg without knowing his Justice of strutting on pure i lend to believe judge Bell in protestations of ignorance t takes courage for an attorney general to admit he is being isolated from the major costs in his criminal Divi but somebody must have the department of Justice will not Tell me who signed the request for immunity for Ste phen floods convicted of crib had to be High and not this the Carter administration defense is that nobody in authority knew of two grand jury investigations of key congressmen when the president did a target a but Carter and Tiell and nil of us knew All about the grand juries last when the Kilb ctr favor was granted and prosecutor David mansion was the Sling can report is a blatant Whitewash of the men at the deliberately avoiding the Normal process of investigating conspiracies by using the Fri and a grand that this matter is not being investigated by a special prosecutor and a grand jury a a scandal in if the United states Senate confirms Benjamin cd Vilotti As the nations second highest Law enforcement and Tim Baker at attorney for time try despite Uwar conflict in testimony Congress will be pulling its Seal of approval on a Clumsy coverup that protects a couple of congressmen while it de Means the legislative one might think that the lawyers in the department of and the aides at the White after the watergate expert would know enough to avoid even inadvertently joining in a possible or at least to do so with some but they never to see that Justice is now its up to the Senate judiciary which will indicate us serious Ness by the Quality o its Choice for special no of Tali Tinl Jesse Jackson deep emotion Over abortion Issue few issues reach As deep into the con science an those who have agonised their Way to a firm position on this life and death Issue often discover that their feeling have been profoundly affected in the that is Why those men and women who have wrestled their Way to personal conviction keep abortion alive As a dramatic and unsettling Issue in american the polls find that most of us think we have made up our minds about another Way of Reading polls is that the silent majority wishes the noisy minority would shut up and leave their consciences but they dont shut they Donl let and that is a Good abortion is an Issue of death and of and to find your True feelings about it Means you have to confront your own morality and that is not an easy or comforting thing the Earth below to that is throughout ube r majority most persistent answer to moral Challenge has shut that is Why the pages of history Are punctuated with a time comes to i for that time wont come until those most concerned on both Stop to listen to what the other has if they were to they would that each Side pro abortion and anti the antiabortion forces Are so obsessed with the question of birth that they i now another question what happens after the baby gels hero the pro abortion forces say that the social conditions awaiting so Many of the unborn arc not Good enough to live it is a legitimate but in finding on answer in abortion they arc overstep Ping their in denying life because of social they arc forcing their cynicism on there is powerful and deep passion on both sides of the abortion it is Lime that Power was combined in the name of this is a proposal that the contentious forces come together and focus on common let them use their moral conviction to dramatize the need fur sensitive awl meaningful sex educations in our let them Issue a Call for a greater regard for love and a higher value on Law let them come together others in the struggle to eliminate Sot conditions that make life so miserable t some see death Asa better to do these things in the name of does not require moral men or women i change their convictions about abort what it would it attack i desperate both moral that result in millions of i every year something neither the tin thu Flint did Rutm Tail it film of the author and of in i b u Wilmel 11  in to