...AND SUPERVISING THE C.I.A.

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• Document Release Date: February 22, 2012
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vania, and the New York Central to consolidate. to the need, a Chicago police official tetttified that 'Je Vasa z
The I.C.C. examiners. in their report last March, a recent study revealed that of four thousand pur? By C. L. SUIZBf;RGF:R
limited the responsibility of the merged railroads chasers of firearms through the mail in his city, PARK Although the aim
toward the New Haven to taking over its freight nearly 25 per cent had arrest records. and ,neth?ds of France and it
business, Their objective was to further the cause of As for the effeet.iveneas of 'gun regulations, James allies today seem Incompatibl
creating a railroad system strong enough to stand on V. Bennett, former chief of the United States Bureau General de Gawlle will ulti
its own feet a ainst the competition of all other forms of Prisons, has frequently pointed ollt that cities mately decide not to withdra
$ Pe l Prance, from either NATO o
of transportation.
The compromise proposed by New York's political
leaders-with the notable exception of Governor
Rockefeller-would ill serve the two main. purposes
involved. It would damage the vi bility of the merged
system, and hence undermine t e general economic
welfare of the Northeast. While would temporarily
retain commuter service within he scope of private
enterprise, a stepchild passenger operation forced
upon the Pennsylvania and Ne * York Central only
by political coercion would be at best a minimum,
indifferent, unsatisfactory service. Is that what New
York and its suburbs want?
TOO-public interest lies In Governor Rockefeller's
plip to bring commuter service under Government
control, in cooperation with Connecticut. Thus, and
only thus, can the states be master of commuter rail
service for the future. That is the policy, in some-
what'different form, that put the Port Authority in
command of trans-Hudson rail service. It is the policy
responsible for purchase of the Long Island Rail Road.
It is the only policy that guarantees completely inte-
grated metropolitan ra i transportation.
Unless the states tkke control, commuter service
into New York City will worry along on a subsistence
level, 'if at all. And that is not goad enough.
... and Supervising the C.I.A.
Conti ing Congressional distrust of the Central
Intelligence Agency has been most recently reflected
it the oisolutions submitted by Senators McCarthy
and Young. The former proposes a Senate investi-
gation of the C.I.A.'s il~xpact on United States for-
eign relations, while the latter advocates a Senate-
House "watchdog" committee on the C.I.A. analogous
to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
The demand for closer Congressional control of the
C.I.A. arises not only from the spectacular fiascoes
In which it has been. involved during the last few years
but even more particularly from charges that the
C.I.A. sometimes goes beyond the gathering and evalu-
ating of intelligence to the actual formation of policy
affecting foreign relations.
Intelligence agencies traditionally oppose legislative'
supervision for fear of comeromising the secrecy their
work requires. But we have felt--and said-for years
that the Congressional reins have been far too lightly
bold, the existing means of control so inadequate as
to be almost useless. We still believe the C.I.A. and
the rest of the intelligence community -would benefit
by creation of a permanent joint Congressional watch-,
dog committee over the entire national intelli
STATE?rt'
Scientific Pork Barre
The eminent Soviet physicist P.
published an article acknowledging that'`A.nnrican
science is still contributing far more to mankind's
knowledge than is its Soviet counterpart. He attrib-
utes the United States lead largely to the wiper
American technique for Government subsidy of re-
search. Washington, he points out, has usually dis-
tribuled money on the basis of the quality of the re-
searc er and the merit of the project proposed rather
than, Ias In Moscow, by allocating funds directly to
Institutions.
Ironically, several months ago President Johnson
announced a change in policy that will tend to move
uch have such regulations have substantially lower the Common Market. This 1
,
homicide rates than cities which do not. Police offs- the judgment of Dirk Stikkei
cials'know that many murders are crimes of passion the Dutch statesman who unt
last year was Secretary Gen
-committed on impulse and regretted almost imme- oral of NATO. The judgm
diately. Mr.' Bennett has observed: "I am personally appears In Stikker's memoir.,
grandeur and mission of France cgnm
but without any real power to some
support this illusion, can only NAT(
resort to a deliberate display, .loyal
to both friends and foes of scan I
'complete independence.' This The
vaunted 'complete independ. that
ence' of action has created an vent
atmosphere of incompatibility insw,
of both aims and methods be- grate
tween France and nearly' all of again
!ts allies ... ' An
convinced that many of these crimes would not have to he published Monday, b ,. suited
been committed, and rhany of these men "would not Harper & Row. -has b
have' come to prison, it gurllp had not been so easily De'pitc? a rather optimist) silk
stress,
concluslun, however; Stikk .
available." makes clear his deep unhapp . foi in
In response to testimony in last .year's hearings, ness with. French policy. I thh
Senatorl)odd has revised his bill to prevent hardships chides France for being "mor Howe
for antique gun collectors and to make i easier for disturbing. than helpful" In all Goner
stores In remote-areas to stock ammunition for hunts of the recent Western crises.-- the I
Berlin; Cuba. Cyprus dad Viet- canno
ers, Having met these objections, he is right to press tm. He contends: outce
for prompt action. The profitable but evil trade in $tikker's View it the
mail-order firearms has flourished too long.
"The present personal regime know
In France; preoccupied with the for--
The British by-elect
Yorkshire coast has b
In the 1964 general
only 1,181, with nea
om4 of national Importance.
cti(#i. Labor's majority was
oretically, a swing ott600 ivotes away from Labor
would bring victory to the Conservative candidate.
and reduce Prime Minister Wilson's majority in the.
House of Commons to one. Such a result could
force Mr. Wilson into a general election before he
wanted it.
The mag who can upset the Socialist apple cart is
a pacifist journalist naibed Richard Gott. He is against
the Labor Government's support of the Vietnamese
war and is seeking to draw, enough votes away from
Kevin -McNamara, the Laborite candidate, to defeat
him on that single issue. The situation makes little
sense, because the Tories and Liberals do not dis-
agree with the Governmentls policy toward Vietnam,
so Mr. Gott has little to gain except attention for 'his
cause.
Mr. Gott's position is eccentric. acid very British;
but the real issues in the 'by-election are not Vietnam
or Richard Gott. They are the performance of the
Labor Government to dat'; the patty machinery
which got caught napping and swung into the Hull.
campaign very late; the divibions In I. Conservative
party which are making life difficult for Edward
Heath, Leader of the Opposition; the uncertain fate
of the Liberals whose able and popular leader, Jo
Grimond, Is r firing. Very much in the minds of the
voters will be the slow but steady inflation, the Gov-
ernment's policy of keeping wages and prices down,
fear of increased taxes, the threatened national rail-
way strike next month, the fuel crisis, the housing
slump.
Mr. Heath's party, disunited and without a coherent
policy structure, bad) needs a victory in Hull. The
curious fact is that if oby Jeseel, the Tory candidate,
wins, It will probably be because a small number of
voters deserted the bor and Liberal parties for a
maverick named Rich d Gott.
Man, the Endangered Species
If man refuses to follow wise conservation practices
in cgntroliing his economic affairs, the ultimate victim
may be not natural beauty or birds and fish but man
himself. This is the sober warning of Interior Secre-
tary Stewart L. Udall in his recent report on the
various species of fish, birds and animals that aro
closb to extinction.
the American practice toward the Soviet'pattern. In Secretary Udall points out that "every species,
a statement to the Cabinet the President directed ing unique, may prove essential in current and future
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of Communist China u(,e,
To the Editor: '
Your editorial remarks (Jan.
17 "Keeping Taiwan In they
U. N."I on the legal analysis in
Alexander W. Rudsiaski's'let-
ter of the same date prompt the
following comment concern(hg
the Chinese representation issue
In the General Assembly. Mr.
Rudzlnaki argues that the ques-
tion of Peking's admission can
be decided by a simple majority
vote. My view is that sound,
interpretation of Article 18 of
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a decision to deny to -ten mil- "tva i
lion Taiwanese people the right viou;
freely to choose U.N. represen- side;
tation be taken by a two-thisubj
majority of the Assembly. an
The position of the United , bets,
States in the Security Council wait
In January 1950--cited by Mr. vain
Rud inskl as: a precedent--has.
no fgal relevance to the ap- The
'plication of Article 18 in the uty
Assembly. All members of the Unit
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vision that Council decisions on golf.
"procedural matters shall be woo
ntade by an affirmative vote of lion
seven members." The soundness
in principle and the practical
pnldeure of the Muted States
pn,Itlon were manifests in July
11162, whin 11r. 'l'sl ng loss silc-
ce,',ied by the very able Am-
bassador Lm. No Council men;-
tar suggestcrl at that time that
the latter's accreditation was
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