European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Surveillance february 1981 the stars and stripes Page 5 official harassment1 by watchdogs has chilled antinuclear panel says Washington up watchdog operations by government and private Agen cies have chilled legitimate antinuclear protest and Public a study group reported the by the Center for National Security said current Law is per missive with respect to the surveillance and harassment of lawful political Al though most of the la enforcement techniques do not violate criminal the Center is a project of the american civil liberties monitoring Intelli gence activities and handling research and litigation in the in a 90page report entitled nuclear Power and political the group found 33 watchdog operations by to state and Federal la enforcement a and 19 by the private sector since intelligence gathering can clearly chill political debate by leading people to with draw from protest the report it cited an investigation by local police of the Lebanon Valley Alliance in Pennsylva a new wrinkle in cosmetics during taping of a show in los and body weights that the Man fac the Ceramic weights Are attached to the comedian Don Rickles models face Turer claims will remove facial face with adhesive a photo could withdraw some diplomats embassy defense measures studied los Angeles a the Reagan administration will pull american Diplo Mats out of countries that cannot ensure their safety and is studying possible defensive measures to prevent incidents like the takeover of the embassy in Teh presidential adviser Edwin Meese the president also has asked for a re port on the state of our ability to respond with Force if such an attack takes Meese told reporters during a visit to Pep Perdine University his comments were in line with president reagans declaration upon welcoming the reagans speaking style described As uninspiring Pittsburgh up would people Trust a Man who gets a Mere c plus in rhetoric Theodore Windt thinks so and he is the person who gave that rating to Ronald a member of a recently formed task Force on presidential said that so far reagans presidential speeches have been Good but while it May be premature to Grade i think Hes had a Good but not his uses of language Are said a member of the National speech communication association also a University of Pittsburgh speech professor and author of books on presidential feels reagans speak ing style causes people to Trust Windt reagans rhetoric will be put to a test when there is a disagreement with Congress on foreign or Domestic issues and he will have to go to the if and when that Well see something More about him rhetorically than ceremonies such As the inauguration and first press noting that Reagan is the first president to have his rhetoric closely Windt we will be monitoring the communication process of the Reagan administration and will Issue reports at yearned and annually the concern is that the most important communicator in America is the said reviewing reagans initial Windt the inauguration speech was written in it was fitting and proper but not but then again very few of those speeches Are Long what struck me about it was that parts were drawn from the lexicon of the manag Erial that gives us at least a preliminary View of a managerial the president thinks in those 52 freed hostages last week that any future taking of americans by terrorists would be met with Swift and effective the administration has been deliberately vague about what Type of response that would addressing reporters prior to a mock courtroom Competition and banquet for the Pepperdine University Law Meese also would not elaborate on possible responses to another embassy but he said if a country is unable to As sure the safety of an embassy or its person appropriate Steps should be taken to secure Sovereign territory and to adopt contingency plans in the event of an despite nothing was done either to prepare for evacuation or increase defenses5 at the embassy in Tehran before it was stormed by student militants in november he Meese said he did not foresee Reagan using military Means to solve the worlds problems but added that it was important that the world Community perceive a determined United emirates raise Oil Price Abu United Arab emirates a the United Arab emirates has raised the Price of its crude Oil by per barrel and the Price of liquid Gas by 8 per cent retroactive to the Gulf news Agency the Agency said the new prices now Are per barrel of crude and per one million Btu of liquid Nia in although the probe was closed when no illegal activity was three quarters of the members were sufficiently intimidated to quit the the report the most disturbing trend is increasing use of private intelligence gathering by utilities and freelance intelligence gathering said Jay who produced the when citizens organize to protest poli cies of the government or of private Indus try which they feel adversely affect their these institutions tend to respond not Only with reasoned argument but also by attempting to suppress the the re port this is accomplished by spying on and disrupting the protesters through surveil Lance and other Means by cloaking the institutions actions in and by passing Laws which make the protest the report said Public agencies tend to watch protest groups overtly and covertly but do not necessarily attempt to disrupt the report also said government and Pri vate agencies do tend to disrupt antinuclear protest if they have a specific policy or financial interests in nuclear the rationale for spying on the antinuclear movement arises from the overlap of nuclear Power and National Security the report if the continued operation of the Domestic nuclear Power Industry comes to be regarded As a National Security there is a danger that surveillance of the antinuclear movement will be Justi fied on National Security rather than anti terrorist Peterzell said one Way to restrict surveil Lance operations is to limit them to authorized for new York City has agreed to guidelines restrict ing investigations of political groups to those suspected of criminal among incidents outlined by the report Between 1973 and the Georgia Power maintained an intelligence Divi Sion which an unnamed former division member alleged to be a Dir gathering in undercover policemen in Maricopa county photographed demonstrations and attended meetings of the Arizona mobilization for the nuclear regulatory commission has asked groups seeking to intervene in licensing proceedings for nuclear Power plants to submit names and addresses of some group members to prove they have a legitimate interest in the of time in the stars and stripes 30 years ago today 1951 a coast coast rail Road strike is slowly paralysing the nations War Effort As trainmen extended their walk out despite contempt of court proceedings and appeals from their Union to return to 20 years ago today 1961 the Kentucky court of appeals has upheld the constitutionality of the states veterans Bonus including payments to Kentucky veterans now living in other 70 years ago today 1971 the results of the larg est Federal Survey of marijuana smoking on american College campuses show that Al most on third of the students have tried marijuana and that on seventh use it regu