WASHINGTON REPORT: Crook Books: Vol. VI

...Because of the unique influence which the United States has on Irish and British affairs, it is to be hoped that Lynch will succeed in involving official American interest more directly and effectively on the side of peace in Ireland, although the case can be made that friendly European nations could do more to help settle problems...

...Hesuggested that the British government had three options...

...While in the United States, Lynch is expected to meet with U.S...

...The burglary itself has never been thoroughly investigated by any official body beyond the fact that it took place...

...NEXT ISSUE A double issue (dated June 9 and 23) NEW FRONTIF_~S IN THEOLOGY COMMONWEAL PAPERS No...

...There is a proposal for a federal solution being advanced by Northern Ireland's John Hume, one that would dnable the North to rule itself within a federal Ireland...

...In answering one of the big questions about the whole sordid affair, Nixon says that he preserved the tapes instead of burning them to have evidence against the lies he confidently expected would be told by his associates and employees...

...Thirdly, it could declare its objective of bringing together both Irish traditions in reconciliation and agreement, which would be to bring them together in unity...

...He was right about his fellow liars being ready to lie against him as they had lied with him against everyone in sight...

...He was under the presidential equivalent of criminal prosecution and the reason he was under such equivalent criminal prosecution was that he had committed a whole series of criminal acts, from initiating--at whatever sanitary remove--the original Watergate break-in to buying time and silence from Howard Hunt and his fellow-desperados to attempting to sell the office of Director of the FBI to a California judge for the price of ruling in favor of White House burglars against citizens being burglarized and on to the total subversion of the Republic...

...In tentatively suggesting a federal arrangement as one form of an agreed Ireland, Mr...

...Effective remonstrations by the Irish government and more recently by a prominent group of American politicians--notably Senators Kennedy and Moynihan, Representative O'Neill and New York's Governor Carey-have called attention to the principal partisan organization suspected of converting contributions to arms, the Northern Irish Aid Committee (NORAID), and this has diminished the funds that flowed to it...

...Hume said...

...In any case, Washington's position to date has been remarkably dispassionate...

...In short, all that coverup stuff about raising the million and dropping off the cash at the scenic overlook above the Potomac not only took place, it worked...

...Secondly, no progress can be made on Northern Ireland unless the British government wants it...

...10016 WASHINGTON REPORT CROOK BOOKS: VOL, VI By my count, there are now six, count 'em, six, books by crooks to come out of Watergate, with the sixth now on the stands and ready for the best,seller status that must be assured to Supercrook himself, Richard M. Nixon, or RN as he styles himself in the title...

...Early in February, Mr...

...Callaghan does not want to stir up the Northern Ireland pot while he is contemplafi.ng going to the country in a critical election later .this year or early in 1979...

...Unity had been portrayed as the conquest of the Northern Protestant, as wiping out his...

...Reaching the street, they saw Watergate looming ahead of them and said, "Hey, wouldn't it be fun to break into Democratic National Headquarters and bug the place...

...Unhappily, the Caucus "has been closely associated with the cause of violence in Northern Ireland," according to Irish Prime Minister Lynch, who should know...

...Those people's irrational opposition to being burglarized, bugged, or bombed by Nixon-Kissinger weakened RN's position with the Russians about d6tente...

...It was fairly barefaced for the Nixon Justice Department to try to run the thing that way...

...Circulation of that news helped reduce a recent meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee to three persons...

...Kissinger has nothing to do with it...

...What the hell was Nixon after in the burglary...

...It would enable the North to rule itself within a federal Ireland, thus enabling the Northern people to protect themselves in areas where they felt they needed protection and would also allow full-scale cooperation and partnership between both Irish traditions...

...That's the kind of gratitude you don't get from Dean, Haldeman, or Erlichman--or from Nixon, for that matter...

...It only became a third-rate burglary later...

...It continues to be unfortunate that the overwhelming weight of all the Watergate inquiries shifted onto the cover-up...

...No sooner said than done and the rest is history...

...We believe that this should be the basis of British policy now, instead of the maintenance of the union," Mr...

...On to Volume Six of Crook Books...

...The cover-up itself has been uncovered and some of its principal architects brought to some degree of justice and allowed to make their fortunes on it, but that which the cover-up covered up remains to this day cozily under the blankets...

...Meanwhile, in the absence of political movement, are there ways that individuals can promote the furtherance of reconciliation in Ireland...

...Well, you are being Commonweal: 325 held for downs on burglary and bugging, why should we listen to you on dttente...

...under similar ones: the Nobel was for peace and Kissinger had done more for war than any man of his generation: so that echo ties Satire to Kissinger, whom he seems 26 May 1978:324 to detest, proving again that working for Nixon is its own punishment...

...The-cynic will point out that the Northern Ireland problem has been in the forefront of politics i,n the Republic since the island was partitioned in 1922 and will suggest that little new can emerge from such study groups now...

...It is only RN, however, and his former Justice Department, who would seriously think that version of what preceded the break-in is history, too...

...Failure by the Irish political parties in the past to spell out the meaning of unity---or their concept or vision of it--meant that loyalists had easily been able to interpret it as something the Protestant people of the North ought .to be afraid of, something which would trample on their rights and coerce them into a hostile state...

...and the Interchurch Emergency Fund for Ireland (90 Botanic Ave., Belfast BT7 UN, Northern Ireland...

...Hume spelled out a whole new dimension of thinking when he called on all concerned--the British government, the Northern Ireland Unionists and the political parties in the Republic--to consider a federal solution...

...It does seem perfectly clear, however, that Nixon made the tapes in the first place and kept them in the second primarily because he wanted to make money out of them and he is certainly doing so...

...He lies now as he has always lied and his lies now contradicting his lies past do not make truth but only more lies...

...One overall conclusion to be reached from theCrook Books to date is that every author believes every other author is a liar and they are all correct...

...Simple folk inflamed by such Nixonian rhetoric over decades were and are opposed to dttente or any rational consideration of the Russians Nixon taught them to think of as devils...

...Ireland's Children (25 Oriole Ave., Bronxville, N.Y...

...In the first place, a new look at the problem can do no harm, Toooften, policies are representedby half-baked slogans and emotion has replaced rational argument...

...It could hold to its presem position of maintaining the union between Britain and Northern Ireland as long as a majority in Northern Ireland wanted it, a policy which had not produced peace, stability, or justice...

...But, most importantly, the new studies by the Repunic's political parties are justified by a call from Mr...

...last year this sum was down to $150,000...

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...In affairs larger than those of which crooks get what percent of the loot, what percent of the blame, the head crook made two interesting claims as regards the awful effects upon world affairs of some small measure of justice being done...

...Will we ever know...

...after all we have learned since, it is absurd for Nixon to do so...

...Hume said this would be a form of power-sharing...

...rights, as creating one uniform state in which the Protestant is dominated by the Catholic Church...

...And, at present, Mr...

...Two years ago, an estimated lhillion dollars moved into Ireland, much of it for ammunition...

...Also, of course, no court in the country had ever before made a President yield papers he didn't want to and so on in that style for some paragraphs...

...John Hume, deputy leader of the Northern Ireland SDLP and the most serious thinker on the whole Irish question...

...On the other hand, Satire's acceptance of the prize under those circumstances is a perfect echo of Henry Kissinger's acceptance of the Nobe...

...Reality somehow broke through and that was the last thing being preached by the Mad Bomber, Eager Eavesdropper and Big Burglar...

...The famed "shuttle diplomacy" hawked by Nixon here did not bring on peace in the Middle East...

...The opposition to dttente in this country was not affected by Watergate...

...They should commit all their resources, all their powers of persuasion, towards that end in the same way as they have committed all their resources in the past to maintaining the union...

...As a second option, it could make a declaration of intent to withdraw, risking a violent loyalist backlash if it were implemented...

...At the same time, much of the steam seems to have gone out of Representative Mario Biaggi's mischievous Ad Hoe Congressional Committee for Irish Affairs, claimed by the Irish National Caucus as an organizational victory for itself, and said to number anywhere from 87 to 104 of Biaggi's colleagues...

...He began his career by crying, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, Jerry Voorhis believes in medical insurance, Helen Gahagan Douglas wears pink underwear, all the Russians understand is force and then more force, for God's sake don't talk to them as if theywere human, put your faith in arms, let us rouse the captive nations to revolt and so on and so on in the same manner up to but not including any least United States commitment to help the rebellion of the enslaved nations...

...Yet though there are these gains, there is, as Desmond Fisher observes elsewhere in these pages, a poIitical stagnation so far as a resolution of the current Troubles is concerned...

...The three main parties in the RepuNic-~Fian,na F~til (back in government since June 1977), Fine Gael and Labor--have appointed study groups to examine all the implications of Irish unity...

...What brought on the semblance of the shadow of the beginning of what might be peace in the Middle East was the overdue perception by Sadat that Egypt could no longer afford war in the Middle East...

...However, intriguing as its chances may be, it is likely that the cause of peace in Ireland still needs impetus from beyond the contending parties, including Britain, for peace to become a reality.In this context the visit of Prime Minister Lynch to the United Nations for the Special Session on Disarmament takes on added importance...

...The basic opposition to dttente had been assiduously built up and hardened by--guess whom?--Richard Nixon, over the years...

...Wrong again, or, more accurately, another bunch of self-serving lies...

...This would be a little unfair...

...First, he said that while Henry Kissinger, the famed Mad Bomber, was seeking peace in the Middle East, his peace-seeking efforts were hampered by the fact that the President he worked for was under "political attack...

...That's an extremely conservative count...

...Against the spectacle of all the liars lying against one another, it is edifying to note the recent decision of the Nixon-appointexi Supreme Court to save what could be saved of their Creator's interest in the tapes by interpreting a congressional law saying the tapes should be generally available as meaning that they should not...

...There are...

...What follows is based on what has appeared in the New York Times, which we may take to be as juicy cuts as the owners of the rights could find in what seem to be the mostly bland, non-revealing, totally self-serving pages...

...The anti-d6tentists, apparently, said, roughly...

...The President Kissinger worked for was not under "political attack" of any kind...

...FRANK GETLEIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FROM IRELAND BRITAIN'S THIRD OPTION Politicians in the Irish Republic have taken refuge in a well-recognized device for covering up political stagnation with the appearance of progress--appoint a committee to examine the matter...

...Hume's assessment of the present position was put forward in an interview with the Irish Times...

...Elsewhere in foreign relations, Nixon whines that he was rendered unable to deal with the foes of d6tente by the hullabaloo kicked up by the rotten political opponents of Watergate, those rats who thought the government was not supposed to burglarize the homes and offices of citizens, open their mail, tap their phones, all the other things that the Nixon team assumed were the prerogatives, even the duties, of any good government...

...He was careful not to spell out his own ideas too elaborately: they have not yet been adopted by the SDLP and the idea has not been considered at any great depth before...

...Let them forget NORAID, and let them think instead of The Ireland Fund (40 Sheraton Circle, White Plains, N.Y...

...Not only does it not include the Watergate entries by good guys like Leon Jaworski or Jim Doyle, it does not include the offerings of such peripherals or semi-accessories before, duririg and after as Spiro Aguew, whose crookedness was classic Maryland, not romantic California, Gerald Ford, who was obviously told nothing except that RN was pure as the driven snow and whose pardon of the master criminal is not a crime until it can be proved thathe did it in return for the succession, or William Satire, who, we must believe, really didn't know what went on upstairs while he was playing the piano in the parlor, although, now that he has won a Pulitzer prize for being a nattering nabob of negativism, it would be nice if he would find an occasion to withdraw that phrase or to explain that it's OK to natter against relatively honest Presidents, like Carter, but bad to do so against atI-out crooks, like Nixbn...

...policy-makers...

...The excerpts opened with Nixon smelling coffee on Biscayne Bay and laughing off reports of the Watergate burglary as some sort of prank...

...We still don't know why it took place and apparently the one burglar utterly loyal to the criminals' code, Gordon Liddy, is the one link between the respectables in the White House and the footpads and desperados with the dark lanterns and crepe soles in the Watergate...

...Hume supported his argument by pointing to the results of a recent public 26 May 1978:J26...

...Nixon here subscribes to'the basic theory adopted by the Nixon Justice Department in handling the ease: Howard Hunt and his "former" fellow CIA spook, McCord, were having a reunion dinner with the Bay of Pigs crowd at the Virginia Avenue Howard Johnson's (working for Nixon is its own punishment) and when the deep-fried rubber bands had all been cleaned up, it seemed too early to break up the party...