European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Anthony Lewis january 1978 Winters who we Abc buys the rights and Sells Kissinger when lbs paid Haldeman 000 in do two televised there were Sharp questions about the professional ethics of the some critics called it Check Book others complained thai the interviewing had not been skillful enough to extract significant new those who were exercised about the Haldeman episode have curiously about a recent program the 99 minute Henry Kissinger special shown on the Abc network two weeks because the Kissinger program raised much More serious questions about the professional standards of television Jour Abc has reportedly paid Kissinger million to act As a consultant and performer for five the contract requires Colum co is ments him to a one special broadcast each and this was the produced under the imprimatur of Abc it consisted of extended conversations Between Kissinger and David interspersed with descriptive footage on european countries and interviews with their political in journalistic the striking Fea Ture of the program was that Kissinger statements were not Ley Ted by informed Halder nans Mike at least tried to probe his Bland in this Case there was no attempt at the result was to put on the Asun challenged comments that were bound to strike anyone familiar with the foreign policy record of recent years As for what the former Secretary of state said about the communist threat to Portugal in 1b4 and it was a very close Kissinger told the television democracy was he because such Portu Guese leaders As Mario Soares were determined to fight the communists and a United Western policy supported the democratic in during the critical period in por Kissinger virtually wrote off the democratic forces and resisted advice from his own ambassador to help the timely economic Aid that May have saved them came from the countries of the european common then foreign went to a lunch at the state department with other portuguese leaders on Kissin the turned to Soares at one Point and add Vou Are a Kerr my the Hussion Whoso Brief ill government Ted to the bolshevik any journalistic Enterprise with a claim to respect would of course have asked Kissinger about the disparity Between the record and his current account of Portu Guese the same would have been Irue of his comments on Southern american policy in he should encourage majority Rule in those countries where it does not now but with Assurance that oppression of the majority by the minority is not replaced by the oppression of the minority by the a be be had sought to bring about conditions in which the Black and White communities could live Side by it it hardly a secret anymore that the  policy from ism on was to be More Friendly toward the White regimes of Southern National Security study memorandum produced under kiss ingers direction estimated that Black nationalists could not upset portuguese colonial Rule Only when that Esti mate proved wrong did Kissinger begin talking about majority an informed reporter in an honest set Ting would also have reacted to a state ment by Kissinger that the Way in answer communism was to show the world that democracy is the wave of the if he believes the reporter might Why did he conspire against an elected government in Chile and collaborate so warmly with righting dictator ships in Greece and elsewhere the role of David Brinkley in the pro Gram was hard to he is a talented and particularly sceptical but Here he was reduced to echoing Kissinger alarmist views on the communist it was like n British party political Broad where an actor asks whether the conservative parly has the answer to the economic Riddle and is solemnly assured that it but the doubt lines deeper than the particular Content of this if a television network pays is million to a political figure for live years of will it let its reporters ask him real questions or will it be inclined to give him a kind of immunity to protect its investment the precedent is to the and especially to the profession of journalism if such it really for a news organization to buy exclusive rights in a former statesman and sell him me sugarcoated Cereal is How Tork to if royw1lkins All creatures were his Brothers when Hubert Humphrey Mankind suffered one of its greatest All of cods yellow and were Brothers to Hubert he believed in their Basic goodness and their equal his whole life was dominated by the sincerity of his belief in his fellow no Pano ply of High no association with crowned Heads Ever changed his simple manner or altered the empathy he fell with the least of his love of Fellows and a sense of fair play were inherent la this he had no pretend sons of virtue for political his Virtues wore real and were recognized and Felt by All who knew him or heard of his Loyal to ideas of Loyal to the country he loved and Loyal to his fellow forever in search of the optimistic about his country future in an eve changing we shall not see the likes of this extraordinary Man from the moment he came into Public life he carried the Banner of human whatever the political As mayor of be made that City one of the cleanest and most democratic in the he forced he conscience on the democratic party on the Issue of civil rights at its convention in Philadelphia in at that Lime be said with his usual Candor that the time has come for the democratic party to walk forthrightly in the Bright Sunshine of human la 1m9 he started a fight in the Senate for medical care of the elderly which years later resulted in he fought Long and hard until civil rights Bills became a any Bill in the Senate designed to enrich the lives of americans or to give people an equal Chance was special As Vic president president Lyndon his old colleague in the he demonstrated his loyalty even though the Vietnam War was not to his his great ambition to serve his country in a larger Way As president we never re after he was narrowly Defeated by Richard he 1 know t could have done so and the american people could have been saved w much sorrow and humiliation had they Humphrey in the White in these Days of casual liaisons the Devo Uon of senator Humphrey to his Lovely wife Muriel was a shining Light upholding the Validity and Beauty of the institution of marriage and the importance of the Stabil Ity of family life in a senator Humphrey leaves hut dream of full employment equal employment Opportunity unfulfilled in the yet enacted upon employment Bill which he cosponsored with Augustus the passage of this Bill could be a fitting me Morial to As jillions of us mourn the death of our this Friend of we can Only t we and but web flu Lead our country in hit foot top toward Universal May god the to tout in m Immis we Urton m Jajw n in mum m in w to b uni trip h Norn Ming to Sun