European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns comments William Safire Justice department made Blunder of Hutton Case attorney general a Csc told an interlocutor on Good morning America the other in afraid this is one Case where poor of Bill Safirt didst know what he was talking the Case under Light discussion was the Hutton Check kiting in which the me Csc Justice depart ment decided to accept a guilty plea on counts of criminal activity by the corporation without accusing any individual of any Bill didst Call the Justice said de were obviously on a firs name or get any he wrote a very mis leading on the matter of failing to Call up the ninth Street immunity Bath the great grass Cutter is talking through his Sun ii is Truk that i did not gel my writing orders from Justice Public but if a desc slaps a lie Detector on Stephen 7 head of the criminal and Robert his he will extract Confes Sions from both that month record conversations were held to persuade me of the Wisdom of treating this White Collar crime As a Felon less a scheme with out displeased with criticism that suggests the Reagan men have been pussycat Meuse has explained that after immunity was spread his prosecutors found that really no one who had not been granted immunity who was majorly involved in the in testimony submitted to a subcommittee of House called this prosecutor Al discretion to let the guilty escape above he could not have meant nor can a Csc mean a but i must stick scrupulously to Here is a fact withheld from House probes of the 60 or so Hutton witnesses called before a grand about half were granted and of All the hut ton Branch managers who were called to every single one received no wonder there were no mid level prosecutions that might have led to higher none of whom were but cannot now be its Melesc is counting on former attorney general Griffin the Island of integrity in the Carter who was retained by Hutton to conduct an internal Bell will Issue his report he tells it May be Justice got too much of a with the counts put in to run up the Fine that criminal acts were limited to on fifth of Hutton branches i have not found any evidence of criminality on the top level so far with five interviews to go and if id have been attorney general and  catch anybody above mid dle id have done the same i doubt that Anthony Lewis vip Hutton its on the advice of his attorney prosecutors will be catch the irony Justice has placed the Burden of proving that the Case was mishandled on the House crime which has no grand jury to do the Job Justice most of the Media have been i awaiting a smoking gun from the committee proving that higher ups were guilty of directing or condoning the unlawful the new York times passes along the prosecutors smirking the Justice department is beginning to say we told you to avoid informed Justice has been Refus ing to give its oversight committee documents showing the basis of immunity or memos Between prosecutors and political appointees about the decision not to prosecute Justice has not provided us with anything but Public says chairman Bill with All chairman Hughes does not under stand the complexities of Rule 6 retorts justices referring to grand jury i Call it says the a former Justice keeps saying it will be but denies us information we should i would prefer to do this without but we have that he said Justice now has a vested interest in justify ing its they said their evidence was so weak they had to take a but we see now that the cumulative evidence is overwhelming this kiting scheme could never be conducted without knowledge and cooperation at All the Hughes hearings recommence in this is not a Hutton but a Justice Case not venality in High but a Blunder now being set in Concrete As future policy against White Collar Meese is hanging Tough on being and that wont Whitewash or my name aint poor of c new York times news service sweeping changes Western zing chivas Economy peking private traders sell food and clothes and household goods in hundreds of Street markets around the billboards on the main avenues advertise a leading publishing House has issued chinese translations of sir Thomas Schopenhauer and Freud an introduction to change is not an adequate word for what is i a pining in the Peoples Republic of i have been Here Only once before a glancing visit in the monochrome that presented itself to the Visi Tor then the uniform the rigid the monopoly of state Power and Wisdom has been outsiders who come frequently say they see striking change after an absence of Only a few mow far will it go will the commit ment to economic Reform last will Western ideas be admitted along with Western technology and capital those Are the questions that people in the West ask about China there Are no sure a new Visi Tor has to begin by his Igno Rance of such a vast and shrouded liven the experts say they cannot Tell where the process of change will the uncertainties social Are too All one can do is record impressions of what is the Street markets Are in a Way the most dramatic manifestation of that May strike a Western Reader As curious what is so significant about Selling consumer items from tables along the alleys and avenues imagine a society in which products and prices were rigidly controlled for decades and Consumers suddenly have a that is in a Walkway Between big apartment buildings some people began Selling Antiques a few months there were a Hal dozen each with its peking City now there Are with crowds of chinese and foreigners bar gaining for Beautiful Ginger jars and car Ved canes and brass one Man Sells Kuomintang currency with Chiang Kai seeks picture on food is the business where private traders have had the they Are Selling so much newspapers reported that some state groceries Are being forced out of everywhere one sees peasants offering to How does it work a peasant living 60 Miles from peking grows Sweet making his own decision on that under the responsibility system instituted for peasants five years ago by Deng Xiaoe one Day he picks 300 and he brings them to peking by he expects to sell the Corn in three he for a total of 60 about he stays two nights in a hotel that charges three Yuan a night and spends two Yuan a Day for so his expenses Are 10 Yuan and his net about that is As much As his usual income for a it sounds and it China is a third world with especially inadequate transportation and communications a country where peasants have enough incentive to move their crops Long distances by incentive is what the Farmers have been getting used to the idea of incentive and Choice for five now it is the Consumers to adjust to those ideas May sound easy it is think about just one thing prices in the Peoples Republic of China prices of significant consumer products had not changed since for 30 years they were a Way of last May food prices were freed from controls except for a few essential Staples Gram and cooking for vegetables were and prices shot then peasants at a distance were allowed to bring their crops to peking for the first they flooded and prices Stabi for prices to move that Way in a society where they were Frozen for decades is not just economically but psychologically on the other hand there is the advantage of Choice and i asked a Young woman How she Felt about vegetable and fruit i like fresh she its Worth some think the idea of Choice has taken hold so strongly already that the state would have trouble returning to i others worry about Public reaction to higher food prices As subsidies Are increasingly then think about the uncertainty As the Market idea moves from agricultural to Industrial As it is just change of that character would be Stag Gering in a Small and this is a country of 1 billion c new York times news service the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on mis Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way representing Hose of the and stripes or the United states