European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Anthony Lewis february 1978 the stars stripes Page 15 civil Liberty in peril by Justice injunction on Book s6em to by accumulates some on the White House tape of june m the one thai finally forced his Reale nation Richard Nixon told hate Roan Why Ibey could expect Richard the Cia to cooperate on a we protected from one hello a lot of he when the Senate intelligence committee what Nixon described one Helms had come to him about a action against the problem was turned Over to John who approved the Cias Legal those were the a Ducal origins of what some think was the worst defeat suffered by the first amendment in recent s department of Justice got an in and Marchett was ordered to Clear with the Agency before writing any More about its classified activities he rest of his the dangerous precedent of the Chettle Case is now being invoked against another Excia prank and his this time the Justice department is suing for an injunction and that such a Case has been brought at All is reason for that 11 was brought by Jimmy Carters Justice department b reason for or so it seems to one who thought this administration bad a commitment to civil Snepp decent is about the last Days of the american pres ence in be details incompetence and deception on the part of officials and argues that they betrayed thousands of South vietnamese who had cooperated with the Cia or the american Snepp took care not to disclose genuine such As the names of agents in fact the director of Central suns Leld termed him very Cir his Book deals with govern ment policy and performance which is surely expression of the kind the first amendment was intended to but the and now the Justice de argue that what the Book says does not and neither does the first that is because like other employees of the signed an agreement to say nothing about its Classi fied work without getting its permission the government suit claims damages from All his for break ing the Why didst Snepp submit his manuscript for review if he could have expected Cia censors to treat the Book to object Only to disclosures that would really threaten grave Security interests then he would save had Little but history gave him no reason to expect such re strained in the Case of the Marchett the Cia first tried to delete 339 passages Tome of them of the most trivial one reported that in a meeting of the National Security had mispronounced the name of the malagasy re pub the Agency withdrew objections to 171 of those passages when mar Bettj went to evidently to avoid the decision in the Marche i by be court of appeals for the fourth gave the Cia almost compile i censorship Agency officials did not have to prove any likelihood of actual term to Security if something was pub the opinion it was enough for hem to show that an item had been Clasrie however they were Nett it took three years for the use Case to wind Way through the thus if he had submitted the would have faced very great uncertainly about when or in what torm relevance of its criticism might gave been n to Jurlet to break a but not every moral fault la legally punish or should Ite government May including secrecy 10 Ira to employees within de but it does not follow that such promises Are legally in forcible As the Constitution limits what sort of oaths May be extracted from and As a condition of government american Freedom often depends on whistle blowing by people who Are not so attorney general explaining the decision to sue Frank said he just wanted to find out from the courts whether secrecy1 contracts were but the attorney general should not so glibly go to court when sensitive interests of free expression Are at As the late Alexander Buckel Freedom is safer when we do not litigate such the Cia naturally pressed for Legal action against Frank but it is the very function of the attorney general to resist pressure of that kind unless he is convinced that the National Security is in he has to have the and the to say Clowy Mclinn Ira Eaker Little growth in defense budget president Carter submitted to Congress in january the defense budget for with his state of the Union has been Analysed eagerly to de Termine what the defense posture is to be under this item no1 the 7b defense the first Carter budget the 78 budget was a scale Down of the Ford budget has been widely advertised As a 2 percent increase Over the 78 budget after allowing for Infra this is hailed by some commentators As evidence that the administration is responsive to the reality that the soviets Are continuing their arms Long after achieving parity with the in strategic those who Are comforted that the 1978 budget was 1118 billion and the 1979 budget is f 126 billion apparently have not consid ered that the 1978 budget was a reduction of Mare than k billion from what the administration and the present joint chiefs of staff thought necessary for a Sale item the 79 defense funding has been called a nato since item Pha sized our commitment to defend our european allies and devotes slightly in creased funds or that purpose Over the 78 Here it May be rewarding to note what is done As Well As what is Saidt president Carter has reaffirmed the nato commitment and has promised increase our nato troop strength by but this 79 budget does not provide for the Neutron bombs Early deployment in which is the Best Way to atop a Warsaw pact invasion in View of their vast superiority in conventional military our nato allies and Uiel soviet opponents Are they Are concerned that whereas the by bomber was cancel Din favor of the cruise there is now doubt whether the cruise missile technology will be made available to our nato our nato partners with dismay that our disarmament negotiators May agree to limit the Range of the cruise missile so that it will be necessary for the aged bs3 bomber to penetrate rus Sian a doubtful operational prac perhaps of most concern to our allies is that the 79 defense budget does no pro vide the sea and Airlift necessary to trans port forces promptly to Europe in an recommendations of the joint chiefs o staff in both areas Are not adequately met in the current t item 3 headlines recently have dated that our Salt u before they agree that the russian backfire bomber is not a strategic plan to exact a pledge from president Brezhnev not to use it against the any Leader who would rely on a Kremlin pledge or our Security u Loo naive to make Funda mental National defense Congress can be expected to Stop this in the defense cuts of last plus mean that Little real growth in our defense posture is pro vide Din the 197d n of m in m of d Tim just Tvan Lii Tan att in us c Bill a Pipit fat it m Hun t to h mum pm n unum Ming Tut