European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Safire sunday april 30, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 15 aide issued panel i Meta Vitae i lit hf�4n to  i i Jun a Digss  Ibe charges you have been Reading in be lately about . Attorney David Marston after a from congressman Joshua Eilberg to was under investigation by the prose air or at the time were just so much hot  said Walter Cronkite the Senate judiciary committee which looked Jolo the situation reported there could dive been no cover up because there was go investigation then that Eilberg was not aider investigation until a month and a Bau after the Call. The unsuspecting viewer Lor Reader of re service and major newspaper re Iru might have concluded that Mem Bers of a Senate committee had met and isme that report. Not True. Not one senator on the Senate judiciary Armittee read the committee report Emne rating the Justice department an the president in the Marston affair before the report was issued. Not even the retiring chairman. Jame Eastland in whose name the report was issued knew its contents he later told amate colleague what does it say i never read  thunderstruck members of the minority who Learned of the existence of a com Mittee report Only when they heard it on television put out statements the next Day pointing out that the so called report bad never been circulated for comment that de vote had been taken on its conclusions. Columns comments of in Wyoming sen. Malcolm Wallop was the hearing record does not sus Uin the conclusions  what sinister Force then spoke on half of the August judiciary committee the United states Senate weighing in verdict of not guilty on serious involving the administration of Tice in the United states the judge and jury of the Justice de rement turns out to be one Man David Tan 46, of Nashville assistant counsel Tom committee who was in Ben Civiletti s locket throughout the hearings into the Ca ability of the Deputy attorney general to Dixon is too Busy manipulating nation-1 networks to answer Calls from a column and his Boss. Francis  left word that he is permanently at the a test. The Stogie staffer Whitewash formerly committee report reads As if it Ere composed by the same merry band at Felice that produced the 45-word Gap in on affidavits attempting to Clear they brass. Appears to the  wrote acting As the committee that 51 was no investigation of Congress Mansberg at the time of the Telephone Call to a president. The evidence devel win the real committee showed exactly opposite that the Fri had opened Aon Eilberg and had men in the Field g about him. Probably triggering the nicked Call to president Carter to fire ? Tormentor. The record is Replete wit wet conflicts under oath among the officials in Justice. Kim s Whitewash goes beyond protect foe president to absolve Eilberg of of obstruction of Justice no trial Sims ?.stf�s5�="s 5a55ssvestianttn. Potential Mittee in issuing a sweeping verdict of exoneration. A  b ving should prove to network at but will be  Sti the Eilberg obstruction is a where officially Cayle of p a Nous Malter onh Dan Schorr style dig is if ant Blu a i is in the ease with which one Low level partisan politician currying favor at the Justice department can pretend to speak for a House of Congress and get away with it with no rebuttals aired nor questions raised. In a can Sersig to  be sensible on women in combat the Pentagon has asked Congress to end the ban on women in combat units. Instead Dod requests that the secretaries of the respective services be permitted to establish the duty assignment policies for " rhe Nante is policy is j��rhl2by women s lib or by advocates of us Era equal rights amendment. Usra Tio Nale flows primary a Tive shortage of eligible qua fied males Forth eau . Able and concerned my Carter administration Subas year old males by the mid uns. And a 25percent drop in the 1980s. In View of the prospective Sharp tall inmate recruits in the coming decade it is fortunate indeed that qualified female in no cants for the All Volunteer military Force apparently will be available in ample Mim Tuss than 2s percent of qualified female High school graduates who apply at re Eru Tiac stations can now be accepted be air Force form to u. Whoa related military be Pentagon pointed out it is having  the emotion that this Issue of n in combat has stirred in flows from an Oldja awned to of to a. Too frequently it draw Sarture women in Fox me or enches screwing a Battle tank. A modern weapon. A a dwindling number of the Trul Ilary guns. A Crew machine guns and be an i crease number Are highly skilled technicians operating sophisticated weapons often in underground silos far removed from the front Lin Battle. Presently women Are being trained a Sicam Crews fighter pilots and Tanker re fueling Crews. These women May beaming the first casualties in the next War. With the Advent of nuclear weapons there is Likely to be Little distinction Between casualties in combat and noncombat roles. Nearly 91 percent of military skills Are Are now available to women. If Congress complies with Dod s request and allows the military to decide which jobs women will fill they will not. Of course be As signed combat tasks for which they Are no qualified. In my infantry company 60 years ago the men selected to carry the machine guns mortars and ammunition were the 6-Taul, 200-Pounders, not the lightweights. Some women and some men Are physically unfit for some military tasks. Common sense will prevail in future personnel assignments As it always has. Too secretaries of the army Navy and air Force Are fully competent to establish that regulations for duty assignments. Congress should promptly comply with Dod s request. C t lot Banff Tutt