European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday August 18, 1978 Tom Wicker Carter adm in Suraf on uses less wiretaps its not fashionable these Days to say anything complimentary about president Carter but one significant Cor Ner his administration has turned has not been sufficiently noted wiretapping has declined precipitately since the Nixon Ford upsurge in crime has resulted either As anyone who has studied the subject would have known. And despite the distressed cries of hard line police types the evidence continues to mount that wiretap Ping is not a very useful tool of Law in for foreign intelligence Pur poses May be somewhat More effective Al though the Security agencies have never produced evidence to substantiate that claim. The decline in Law enforcement tap Ping therefore is All the More reason Why Congress should proceed to bring foreign intelligence tapping under the limited authority of the Federal other forms of Federal wiretapping for Law enforcement and for Domestic intelligence now require a prior Federal court authorization after a showing of probable cause that a crime is being or about to be committed. A Senate passed Bill supported by the Carter administration and at least proforma by the Fri and the Cia would require a somewhat lesser showing and a court authorization for foreign intelligence Lap placed in this coun try a weaker version of this measure has been cleared by the House intelligence and rules committees and will come to the floor Early in september with Cloudy prospects at Best. On the one hand rep. Robert. Drinan of Massachusetts with the Lauda he motive of Opo Silion to All wiretapping will Lead a group of liberals who want to i the Bill More threatening is the opposition of the Republican policy committee. E1 which wants to leave the whole question of intelligence tapping to the president s Dis action a Peculiar position indeed for a supposedly conservative party. Jar this year s report from the adm Nistra Jet the office of the u. S. Courts does Little Tofu support the persistent Republican Viewly that wiretapping is an effective instrument of and it ought to be remembered that this. Me party. Led by Richard Nixon once act promised to reduce Domestic crime by us flow remapping on a Broad scale to the report shows that Federal wiretaps a placed for Law enforcement purposes fell from 137 in 1976 to Only 77 in the first year of. The Carter administration. When that Ngure is adjusted to reflect taps placed in Jne last Days of the Ford administration attorney general Griffin Bell is seen Mohave authorized taps in 1977 at an annual i rate of Only 68 that s half the rate of thelast Ford year. Within the Overall total moreover tap Ping in the two most frequent areas of use also declined. In gambling cases taps Felly 73, from s3 in 1976 to Only 14 in 1977 in narcotics investigations the drop was 39. From 36 taps to 22.the reason is obvious. Carter and Bell did not have the belief in and committee Otto wiretapping of their predecessors. The evidence moreover supported their scepticism. The 1978 administrative office re port following up on taps placed in earlier years shows that for the two Nixon Ford years 1974-75, 667 out of 906 convictions attributed to wiretaps 74 of the total were for gambling scarcely a crime of major interest to a tear Ridden Public. Most of these convictions were of minor figures in the gambling world and even some of them May have been really a product of a wiretap. And narcotics cases were almost the Only other area in which any number of convictions was reported. Yet the report puts the Cost of one tap in a racketeering Case at 1156.706 it Esti mates that on this tap alone 3.000 people were overheard in 9,883 conversations Only 30 of which were deemed incr meat tha opinion air too in Ina Cebu int and cartoon on Mil Pao rope Mart Tom of int aut Nort and Art in no Warto to Cora trod at rap manting the Yawt 01 the Start and Urla Oor Mound Yawt go in Rufii Ine which is not the same thing As get Ting a conviction in court even by the prosecutor. No arrest had been made at the Lime of the report in this Sterling example of hard nosed police work. Similarly a set of three taps in a narcotics Case had Cost $273,578 and had resulted in no arrests despite the fact that a court is not supposed to authorize a tap without some evidence that a crime is planned or the Carter administration s reluctance to Tao May have had some Good effect on the s1atesy no state gave its police new wiretap authority in 1977 and none has n years Many states Don t use wiretap authority previously provided and in 1977.the number of state taps stayed at about the same level 541 u years. Over 60 of these Ita tet were placed in new York i and what Are the 1 anyway ineffective my shown to be in All of 1177, i of the 626 Federal and state a wiretap was turned Down Lonow Zarut arc Roy Wilkins self segregation in . Col leg in the Day to Day Effort to gain an education Many Black youngsters Are be ing insulated with much nonsense about their race at some of America s most prestigious colleges. White administrators Are Busy making it easy for Black College Stu dents to segregate themselves on the Cam pus in so called special interest Dormi tories and ethnic study facilities. The evidence of this self segregation is All around us. Take a look at the College or University in your own Community there is the distinct likelihood that there is at least one Black dorm. Cornell has one. Douglas College in new Jersey has one. Livingston College of Rutgers University at one time had a House for Blacks and separate quarters for other ethnic groups at their what we thought was a Campus fad of the 1960s has become in the 1970s the established Norm for social and academic life at predominantly White colleges. It is a Fash Ion that is being resisted by a very few individuals. Psychologist Kenneth Clark a Regent in new York state recently waged a Lonel Battle to integrate the Black facilities at Cornell known to the Campus Community As Ujamaa the school after much wrangling and apparent Defiance of directives from the slate Board of re gents has agreed to Stop advertising Uja maa As a Black House and to advise Stu dents that the quarters Are open to All regardless of race. It has set up a faculty committee to Monitor and supervise the selection process for admission. The department of health education and welfare has not been much help to or. Clark and the Black and White students who oppose separate facilities. Its guide lines to the regional offices of the office of civil rights for handling this problem Are weak and ambiguous. They cannot adequately remedy smokescreen evasions of the spirit and intent of title i of the 1964 civil rights act which mandates open col lege facilities. These guidelines will be examined closely in a future column the . Government does not yet under stand that there is a very thin line Between private preference and official advocacy of racial separation. When private prejudices Are sanctioned or cooperated in by actions or policies of the University they take on a Public character and official Inge. And the fat is in the fire usually for the minority. Even if it does not become the slated pol icy of the University racially segregated dormitories tend in the direction of tenth Roning latent prejudice and there is mis chief to pay. Lasta Pru Harvard University held a Are freshman minority weekend for the entering class of 1978. The Black pre freshmen were hosted by Black Harvard students and Given orientation about Black he at in the common Ding Hall one could see that the majority of Blacks eat at All Black soul tables and virtually All the Whites sat Apfl from Blacks. When one Black it wondered aloud about i i Host gave assurances that it is All the even Harvard uni comes its students in a i organizers of the pre weekend were Black faculty j Dent leaders. Perhaps i make these special or. Pre freshmen but not for the i the Black students owe done so. The purpose of the i vide the Black Ivard. This is to Clark Calls the Ellemina the dilemma or. Dark pounded by the appear Anfym american institutions. Pfc we lion and the negro s i Propri Tely in terms of t to of this change. He i change is an illusion Thill with and seems so merely new forms of but. In the end made of Tutei and just in Case we i separatism is really the t Gro students dark Rea Nalja Ever flamboyant the i Black s protest he is even his victories Are netted by the i c Tho radix a and film
