THE WASHINGTON OBSERVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300040038-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: October 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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$1000 for a violation.
In his efforts to placate.the liberals, Reagan is even
acting contrary to the indisputable will of the voters.
For instance, in 1964' they' repudiated the Rumford
open housing act by a 2 to 1 majority. Yet in the fight
on the bill in the legislature in August, Reagan aligned
himself with hardened liberals and extreme Leftists to
retain the unpopular law. Although verbally condemn-
ing it, Reagan supported a move which would have
made it "worse than the original Rumford Act itself,"
according to state Senator John Schmitz, who has
pushed for outright repeal. Schmitz's bill to repeal the
Rumford Act, at first eschewed', by Reagan, was amend-
ed in the Senate to the point where it became a weapon
which could club real estate agents who have fought
the act. At this point, it was supported by the actor.
Another puzzling move by Reagan was his support
of an ultra-liberal abortion bill. After proponents of
the bill in the legislature had given up hope that it
could ever pass, Reagan rescued it by supporting it,
and it passed by a close margin.
Although his policies to date have brought no great
outcry from Conservatives because anyone hates to
admit they'vo been fooled, perhaps big reported support
of the unpopular Thomas Kuchel will be his Waterloo.
WO can report that Reagan has quietly instructed
his public relations firm to get Kuchel re-nominated
and re-elected in 1968, although the majority of the
Republican Party is clearly anti-Kuchel.
Shortly after Reagan's election, WO (December 15)
.1966) predicted that Conservatives would soon begin
to "take a second look" at the movie actor.
Communist Herbert Apthe-
ker has been given back his
passport after making an
illegal trip to North Vietnam. The State Department
announced this with no further comment on October
2.... LBJ was unable to get support for his Panama
treaties from the AFL-CIO because there was no pro-
vision in them to protect the rights of 6,000 craft
union workers employed in the Canal Zone. They
enjoy protection now under U.S. labor laws; would
lose them if Panama were to take over ... The Congres-
sional Hotel, across the street from the Congressional
Office Building, has had its cashier's cage robbed 100
times since Earl Warren's desegregation decision in
1954.... The hotel, located on the edge of the Negro
section, is practically deserted over the weekends and
on holidays; has been forced to close its restaurant
except when Congress is in session. Misery loves
company.
Since 1956, when many railroads still used coal
locomotives, the mortality rate from lung cancer among
engineers has risen 900%. Diesel fumes are con-
sidered at fault. . . . Despite the fact that the Soviet
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the big American naval base at Guantanamo to house
its giant, nuclear-armed snorkel-type subs. The Reds
are anxious to eliminate U.S. naval supremacy for
good in the Caribbean.' . . . The Watts area in Los
Angeles is still an economic wasteland. Its business
street was once the busiest in LA; now it is practically
.deserted; and still a burned-out hulk, two years after the
famous riot. Negroes are moving out of Watts rapidly
and pushing into formerly all=White areas of Inglewood
and other adjoining towns. . .. The Armed Forces
Qualification tests showed, before lowering the mental
standard, that the failure for Negro draftees was 67%
.compared with 18.8% for White draftees.
Crystal
Ball
Some superficial ob-
servers thought that
the Kremlin suffered
as a result of the re-
cent, short Mideast war. It is clear to see now that
the United. States has suffered and the Soviet Union
has gained. The U.S. has lost all influence in the Mid-
east except through some oil companies which, still
maintain a footing there; but the Reds now have the
Arabs eating out g? their hanti. The crystal Bal > sees
the Mediterranean colored doxtimuiilst red oti the tulips;
watch for the next step: The Soviets will soon establish
a naval base in Algeria at Mers-el-Kabir, once known
as "the French Gibraltar." It is considered atomic-
bomb proof. Odds are that the U. S. Sixth Fleet will
withdraw from the whole area.'
WO, which reported the contents of LBJ's Panama
Canal treaties over a year before anyone else, now
predicts that the treaties will be put on ice for the
balance of this year. Main reason is that Administra-
tion timing became out of joint once the treaty was
exposed and groups like the potent Liberty Lobby
began hitting at it. After the exertion of pressuring the
Senate to ratify the Consular Treaty with the great
majority of voters opposed to it, the Administration
just did not have the internal fortitude to do it again.
New Orleans' district attorney Jim Garrison is going
to produce in court soon authenticated CIA documents
to prove that Lee Oswald was on the payroll of the
CIA shortly before the Kennedy assassination, accord-
ing to a high security source.
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