European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 2, 1978 the stars and tripes Page 7 in the Selling of the president s Book new York not it s history old Harold Roth president of Grosset & it Nam the publisher of in the Mem sit Richard m.  you Don t Tave to buy the Book but should t the Guy have a right to be heard Esther and Sidney Kramer the Propri to oof the remarkable Book shop in West port conn., have a different Point of View not one copy will be ordered or sold in our Tore unless he s willing to sign a statement in Advance giving All the proceeds to his vie Musor  three years of writing ghost writ ing and editing the former president s memoirs arc to be published May 15 by Grosset & Dunlap at $19.95 for the regular edition $50 for a deluxe edition and $250 for a leather bound signed edition. Just As controversy dogged Nixon in his Public life it follows the 1,184-Page Book that begins with his Early recollections in California and ends with his departure under fire from the White mouse. In Congress and in courts in bookstores and publishing houses the publication of Nikon s recollections has aroused angry debate. Conservation group rates lawmakers Washington a seven members of the House arc rated perfect by the league of conservation voters for their voting records on environmental issues the organization announced sunday. However 13 Meliers scored Zero. Overall the league said. House democrats averaged 56 out of a possible 100 Points while republicans averaged Only 215. The ratings were based on the votes of members of the House of representatives on environmental legislation last year. As a whole the House averaged 47, com pared to a rating of 49 in 1976. It was t a Good year for the Environ ment said Marion Edey. Executive director of the league. But it was t a disaster either. I m concerned about the party differences. I think the republicans could vote better. A lot of the votes were for pork barrel projects. Fiscal conservatives ought to score better than 28." the ratings were compiled on the basis of to votes on environmental issues that included questions involving nuclear Power water projects air pollution strip mining wilderness and Marine mammal Protection. The conservation league is u nonpartisan organization that gives financial sup Jan it to political candidates with Strong environmental platforms f the group says its poll shows support for environmental issues was strongest in England with the Vermont Dele a ave rang a score of 85 and the Massa Letts delegation registering 82. The lowest delegation score went Solaska. The state s Only congressman. Re publican rep. Don Young received a Zero g the Mississippi delegation aver. A score of 5 and Idaho received a 7. All seven members who received perfect were democrats. They were reps Burton and Don Edwards both of Tomia Jonathan Bingham and Rich Ottinger both of new York Bob in of Pennsylvania Andrew Maguire Jersey and Paul Tsongas of Mas is. Those receiving Zero ratings were heps Ames Abdnor is d. Thad Cochran it is. Trent Lott a miss Ronnie Lippo a John Hammer Schmidt a Ark. T no Johnson a Colo. Robert Livingston it la. Keith Sebelius. It Kan. Gene. Did Der Ray. Gene Taylor. A to. Olin an league a Tex. W ii Poage of Tex. And Young of Alaska publishers and booksellers compare the Nixon Book with . Haldeman s the ends of Power recently published by times books and ask whether Nixon who barely avoided impeachment and Halde Man his former chief of staff who was imprisoned should profit by their misconduct and whether their books should be published and handled with enthusiasm. Doubleday & co. Turned Down the Opportunity to take on the Nixon and Haldeman books As Well As works by John Dean and by John d. Ehrlichman. Stewart Richardson Doubleday s vice president and editor in chief said the com Pany made it a policy not to publish books by those implicated in watergate criminality. Their publishers have said that they tried to balance their lists publishing books on both sides of the watergate controversy. Simon & schuster for example published Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein s All the president s men and Dean s Book. By the same reasoning the Book of the month club which took on the Woodward Bernstein Dean and Haldeman books As main selections has agreed to distribute the Nixon memoirs but Only As an alternate selection. After making an Early bid lie literary Guild part of Doubleday & co., declined to acquire the Nixon Book mainly on the grounds that the work did not add significantly to what was already known about Nixon and watergate. The Nixon Book woo read by Only one Hook of the month club judge Clifton Fadi Man who reported to his colleagues before the group do Cidad against the Nixon Book. Thereafter  Silverman the senior vice president  editorial director of the club . Unlike a main selection which requires a positive act of refusal by Book club Mem Bers an alternate can simply be ignored. There arc less complaints from Mem Bers with  Silverman said. We got a lot of mail against the Dean Book and there was some against the Haldeman Book but there is no telling yet on the Nixon Book. Whatever one thinks of Nixon we feel it s a historical  Warner books which bought world rights to the Nixon memoirs and Grosset & Dunlop encountered difficulty in arranging foreign Book publication but had More Suc Cess in Selling syndication rights to newspapers and magazines through the new York times feature service. The times and other newspapers began publishing excerpts from the Book sunday. Nixon Book surprises Ervin Morganton . Up former sen. Sam Ervin after Reading excerpts from Richard Nixon s forthcoming memoirs said sunday he was surprised the former president had admitted any involvement in the watergate cover up. He Nixon admits something i was t expecting that he was involved in the watergate cover up Ervin said in a Tele phone interview from his Morganton Home. Ervin who chaired the Senate water Gate investigating committee said this surprised him. I thought he Nixon had rationalized it to such an extent that he did t believe he had done anything wrong said the North Carolina demo crat. Andre the Seal right kisses his girl Friend. Smoke before leaving the new let s Seal it with a kiss England aquarium in Boston for Marblehead mass., where he began a 160 mile Spring swim to his summer Home us Rockport Maine. A Seol gets to Maine in 3 a Days Andre Breaks Spring swim record Rockport Maine to Pii Andre. Maine s Best known Seal. Sunday broke All previous records for his annual springtime swim from Marble cad. Mass and paddled into Rockport Harbor about 5 30 a m  17-year-old sea mammal was spotted by two fishermen in the lift he Dawn swimming near his pen said marry Goodridge. Andre s owner and Trainer. Andre was released from Marble cad wednesday afternoon alter spending the Winter Al Boston s new England aquarium but he Hung around a few hours be fore leaving on his annual 180-mile Spring time trek to Rockport Harbor. Goodridge  has been known to take up to two weeks on the journey North but he broke All records this year he made it in 3 Days lie did t mess around his Trainer  s mental attitude is great said Good Ridge How can Good Rulec Tell when Andre is Content that s a Isy lie just kind of lays Back in the water eats a fish once in a while and does t scratch at his pen. Does t try to get  Goodridge said the Trainer said he was delighted the egyptian trains collide Cairo up a suburban commuter train hit a stationary one from behind during morning Rush hours injuring sever Al dozen passengers police said. Seal had returned so quickly. But he said there were some tense moments. Usually Andre lets me know where he is. After the second Day he was but and 1 had t heard Rorn him. 1 began to  the Trainer said. Hut i heard he was at 1 Pemaquid  Tver about 40 Miles South of Hock oru yesterday. So. I did t worry Loo  Goodridge said Sund Yandre will be alone in his pen for a Cou ple of weeks. Goodridge said  Andre s female companion will be brought from the aquarium sometime in mid May. As for rumours Andre is going to be a father. Good Ridge said i Don l think so. If smoke did have a Pup. It would be in May and i Don t think she s fat enough but Well