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f eer eps. I eS sae “ nes on $° Committee;’ they're: ne. but. a spate “One ‘of, the’ nagg ing p ste rye and? i dreamy, Democratic pro - ‘befor fail to carry them out f Tree eat ‘* someone else there. might talk as ‘seenied... the Watergate, Scandal or, the Milk Scan- “likely, then I would have to do something,’ dal. or the: Wheat Scandal’ or the You- ‘ quick. I telephoned Morgan in Atlanta,“" F ill-in-the-Blank” _ Scandal.“ and he rapidly devised a plants Ber. ‘a. He left instantly for. Washington, ' went, ‘ presides - know. about ‘another *seandal:; “ ton’s’ “jails. . Since’ January they’ have’ ‘ averaged. one escape every four days:? ' They. make.. good their get- aways | not? * only singularly, but in groups. ms Aled * ported that he hada client, unnamed, ” _ who had knowledge of a serious federal -; ¢rime, that the client planned to pub-,’” _lish a story about it, and that the client : ‘would turn over the information he» rh "would print.-— 10 days before. publica," i "One test of an administration is how it. », tion~providing the client ‘gould get a’. runs Washington. Do we blame the low- promise of immunity. Here was the | _Jegal danger: were I to publish the -. the crooks bribing their way out? That . story and Cooper take flight, then I might ° * accusation has’ been made but not an-, os we ‘be liable for aiding and abetting a erie} swered. No questions get answered in-. | minal to take flight to avoid prosecution, - the rat kingdom where the rodents come y,, and other things, But ifthe FBI got the ~ out of their holes, and a faceless Presi-_ | information 10 days ahead of publication, » dent slips down and out of sight broad: ” ‘they'd have a. fair shot at doing their.” ‘casting modest radio messages in the * jobs, and for that matter, possibly estab- Television Age from. lishing whether Cooper's story was true. ; places. -* . Many, many questions. : There are "_. The promise of immunity was made. questions to be asked about John Ales- a, . 4, Meantime, Morgan urged me to hurry. : wd Nor does” . the,.country , over, which this capital: House, ‘priefin hs _ ‘ta the Justice Department, ' ‘and Pei the almost nightly escape from Washing- es Fat City, Rat City, who's to blame? ‘* caliber of’ Nixon's appointees or are - impenetrable . ree nee meek th AHxINNMwKor DEOMI NMN eNO PROM TNO wom wat Zeeaad, afte dewseee: MICE HS toy peat PR "investigator chee ed,ag ga last Week and’ ‘Says | that, urpty had: n been employed: vat Boe 6, 9nd chad q ey record; of, as. vs myer. eith .: i aietecane ull it: : "purposes, the mice must live off Ziegler be smart ‘enough to ‘co boc! an elabe : ._ briefings, and they only! h : that it appeared to hgax: ax;3 ; & Butin the end, or'to thi Point, * not Cooper, which mean ve D fell hard. fs ghee git we a. § squelched. the weakened. thin, 3). tellin “them that, “We re not going to have this: Long ago I played ina poker game wi type of chaos’ in future briefings:..(and)" a bristly- -browed old. curmudgeon, wi - as far as ‘this briefing. is concerned. I'm’ "had run whiskey” forCapone in Phil : vending it, it’s ended. "83 pls aR "*~" delphia. He was,one tuk he old | man. F _. The questions pile up. ‘instead of an- - would try to goad me in’ ‘swers there “are diversions. such . as ‘bets, when my. cards”: Marina Whitman, the most: presentable’. should. “Go on. Take ac member’ of the Council of Economic | ed. “Guiunbon wa aen bee _ Advisors, who makes those monthly ad- .: Yes. Columbus took a ” missions that prices ‘have gone up again. 7 ‘covered America. Now; I “Dahlings," the ZsaZsa Gabor ‘of eco-~ chance, everything” on, he’ “nomics says ‘in effect, “we have our good had discovered, what?’ A more than lik eicred a a months and we: have our bad months, ly impostor, an. actor, , pretender | and this was a bad one again, but notso herculean deeds,;;>: i ah sl Gis, ete vd ) bad if you know how to read the numbers”. - Still there lingers a smali gut feelin like us experts. Sure, bread's up, rent’s maybe self-serving, maybe. not, that up, milk’s up, but we've got GM to hold had the right man all! ‘along, And if the line on Cadillac, and diamond prices ~didn', well, so be it.’ Tt was a breat are stable.” -" ‘~ “taking story that didn’t check out. Ar ’ Fat city, Rat city, who's to blame? * that is what a reporter i is oF.” a | Copyright, 1972, The Washington Post-King Features Syndicate oanin'enwr wROHAM TENOR ODOT N, Pre yt SA: