The bombing of Haig

...Like Ford, Kisself as an actual target himself for assas- add the announcement by the Belgian singer could well feel a sense of injured sinatory efforts...

...Their attention and sympathy to their cause...

...She learned ALTHOUGH it is not as widely Bureau's, used to call the little gray cells, to drive this year in order to get to her known as it should be, the FBI has and it deserves a fuller opportunity for patients, and learned so well that she elaborated a whole new theory of application and testing...

...he likes to bomb lots of people at a time, is well established that part of all political Since his retirement from NATO, it is hundreds, thousands...

...Her patients, for the most part, are terminally ill, and WHODUNIT...

...betrayed by Nixon...

...dismissed as a possible suspect under the 2. When you attributed the 18-minute The man is out for Ford's old job which FBI theory of political assassination...

...The in- from California made news recently by purpose and a sense of belonging, and are stitution of "the box" has spread...

...philosophy," explains observer the end have accumulated savings...

...time and preferably employees or former l. When you set up the presidential Namely: employees, like Haig, but that, of transition, was there an open or tacit un- First, of course, former president course, is not the matter here under invesderstanding that Ford would get the pres- Ford...

...It would be out of campaigning in this country is the regular hard to say who Haig's followers might character for him to bomb even the two press conference, preferably televised, in be, but surely as Americans use the word carloads involved in the attempt...

...In such start from "the box...

...The FBI professional bombers, detonation exnote, in those areas in which we are said theory was that Letelier had blown him- perts and other dynamiters, Haig was in a to be lagging-in engineering and the self up, or, that his fellow Chilean refu- much easier position to set up a pseudotechnological sciences, in mathematics gees had blown him up in order to attract assassination,attempt than poor Letelier and in business administration...

...An as- suspects, they came up almost at once Letelier, Haig was unharmed by the car tonishing number of the top-ranking stu- with a new theory about that kind of blast, a circumstance that makes the FBI dents in university and college graduat- crime and managed to peddle it to a nor- theory even more attractive...

...The Spanish-speaking learn these matters is rather better than the the tradition we have developed recently 31 August 1979: 455 of the assassination and attempted assas- scratch press conferences altogether, fol- and Charlie's Angels...

...Simple: Why should Al ' `sinister forces," whom exactly did you to regain for himself...

...A Japanese-American alienated of late, are regaining a sense of her daughter's and her son's...

...And what does he get...

...Cynthia works as a ha'irdresser's assistant most of the time, but she found time to take a course in practical nursing and now is on THE BOMBING OF HAIG call several nights a week...

...quality of life...

...idency, Nixon the pardon and you job at NATO, whether as quid or quo is Nixon himself is by no means to be NATO...

...HOW ABOUT FORD, NIXON & KISSINGER...

...Like the murderer in 3. When you told Attorney-General more to the point would be the instant Arsenic and Old Lace, Nixon could have Elliot Richardson that he was duty- retaliation for an upstart act of use done the deed just to keep his record bound to fire Special Prosecutor Ar- ajeste...

...But Haig, in contrast, going after the people who hated the victhe presidency, especially the third, it is not only escaped unharmed but escaped tim, the investigator will be overessential for Haig to evade them...

...apt to join in...

...The more you drive to excel may well lead to new starts As things worked out, the Bureau think about it, the more feasible the FBI for all of us...

...cer in the parks, organize and attend free Japanese have little use for individual Those who draw out first are borrowing concerts, gradually begin to take their responsibility, the 'buck-stops-here' and paying back...

...fession all along, Kissinger was forced to enrages and humiliates conventional ofBut with the assassination attempt in keep body and soul together by becoming ficers...

...chibald Cox, who was demanding access Then, of course, there's Henry Kis- Such are the principal logical suspects to the incriminating tapes, because he,, singer, the man who, more than any according to FBI theory...

...Not incomparably better off than Kissinger whelmed by suspects: the three or four deny them, because while Richard Nixon himself, in terms of public office...

...The occasion was As it happens, we have one...

...Not which the candidate fields any question "friends," the category would include enough bodies to be worth counting...

...she takes pride in making them comfortable and in comforting them...

...those who draw out at children to exhibitions and museums...

...was to set up a real one...

...his near past, Haig can quite reasonably a public entertainer like Mork and Mindy FRANK GETLEIN Commonweal: 456...

...They reinfuse a city with vitality, bring Rochelle Jones...

...The FBI bustled into the case and was blown up as he was driving, like Another tiny minority is fast taking the while they failed to come up with any Letelier, from home to office...

...thrift in the collective effort...

...Ford, after all, did give Haig his tigation...

...beside the point...

...There are three former business associates and those who On the other hand, Kissinger would be questions almost any reporter would raised him' from the obscurity of a capable of bugging Haig, because on the want to ask Haig: lieutenant-colonelcy to the command of record he likes bugging people one at a the Free World's military forces...

...They're always Letelier's own friends and associates...

...In the origgive new meaning to family life and to into their hands, copped a plea and thus inal FBI formulation, it would be to neighborhoods...

...It is not just that they stuck the FBI with tracking down the arouse sympathy for himself and support help each other," says a black friend of murderous agents of the Chilean military for his cause, which is generally felt to be mine who lives across the street from a dictatorship instead of the more agree- his own election as president of the veritable clan of the Spanish-speaking...

...the press chooses to toss...

...Chief of these is that there simhis survival would be vitally useful for cludes an assassination victim's friends ply are not enough Haigs to arouse Kishim during the campaigns, both primary and followers as well as the victim him- singer's bombing instincts...

...It goes without saying that killed Chilean refugee diplomat Or- Generalcy of the North Atlantic Treaty that she bought her own car...

...While it is true that Connally broadcasting instead cotton candy ques- is only being mentioned as possible can claim to have been in the car in which tions from "the public" as hand- sehator from New York, or even ConnecJohn Kennedy was riding when he was selected, along with dynamite answers ticut, while Haig has been mentioned by shot, Haig alone, as the primary cam- by the candidate...

...president to John Connally...

...sination of presidents and presidential lowing the Nixon precedent in 1968, Beyond that, now, in 1979, Kissinger candidates...

...groups and within the groups lies shared other investments with the help of their New Americans are bringing about responsibility for decisions...

...lando Letelier and an aide as they drove Organization, Alexander Haig, the last The Guyanans are a tiny minority but to work...

...On the record and general...

...visiting each other, hugging each other, Still, it was a remarkable exercise of How would the blowing up help that planning outings...

...And they do love their what Hercule Poirot, whose record in cause...

...Wher- the way he has helped several big corpo- at last receptive to the gift Japanese-ever Guyanans work their co-workers are rations bring about increases in their Americans brought us generations ago...

...Tempting, but prudence counsels cau- ever other sleuths may think, find comFinally, the history of the attempt and tion...

...Cynthia has constructive changes in top economic shared responsibility American workers, helped to buy three houses-her own, levels as well...

...While hundred field grade and general officers is still alive, Haig and Ford have a loose Haig went on to one of the supreme posi- over whom Haig hacked his way to the cannon rolling around their deck as to tions in what had been nominally his pro- top by personal politicking of a kind that question one...

...Moreover, ing classes this gear were Vietnamese...

...this country...

...police that none of the familiar European merit regarding Haig, more than enough Moreover, and perhaps more impor- terrorist gangs seems to have been in- motive for murder, as M. Poirot has estant, an assassination attempt he survived volved, the FBI theory of political assas- tablished many times...

...navigated snow-choked streets with ease political assassination...

...would give Haig an important link with sination seems to have come home: Haig There are, however, countervailing George Wallace, whose following he has blew himself up for political profit...

...Haig's abrupt de- Haig be the only Nixon associate never have in mind...

...Unlike lead in scholastic achievement...

...unblemished...

...Kissinger can flatter him- ventional in police work, except, of While any reporter would want to ask self that he is about the one important course, for M. Poirot...

...hardly had a chance to apply the ingeni- theory becomes when applied to the Haig Other new Americans are affecting the ous theory to much effect before the man case...

...several astute observers as a definite paigns shake down, could present him- When to all these considerations you presidential possibility...

...For the moment, at least, it self as prime suspects...

...It would immediately place him in children...

...Latin Americans tend to who actually did the assassination fell . What would be his motive...

...And, parture would be a clear, if minor gain...

...On the when other Washingtonians were the automobile bombing in Washington eve of his retirement from the Captainhopelessly stuck...

...There is an incentive to production-by teaching them to in- Things are not all gloomy, after all...

...considerations which I, at least, whatto attract to get the nomination...

...crease participation in decisions at every ABIGAIL McCARTHY Just as the example of thrift inflects others, so must others be affected by the pleasure people like Cynthia take in work Of several minds: Frank Getlein and personal achievement...

...Investigating the Haig those questions and while they all servant of Richard Nixon to escape the case along conventional lines, namely bear on his fitness or lack of fitness for debacle unharmed...

...The problem, of Richardson had "received an order from other, discovered Haig's considerable ta- course, is that it's the Belgian police your commander-in-chief," what was lents for military climbing, gave him the rather than the FBI that have the case, so your theory of the presidency in a still forger ledges and toe holds to establish the theory will most likely not be resorted largely civilian republic with a written his record as all-time champ in that line in to, the Belgians being notoriously conConstitution...

...The not...

...So does the FBI theory, which in- pelling...

...loyal Nixonian and first Ford creation, they are contributing to our well being...

...mally somewhat discriminating, respect- as the commander of vast numbers of They tended to excel, it is interesting to able Washington newspaper...

...able task of hanging the murders on United States or possibly as vice"The enjoy each other...

...The erasure on Nixon's incriminating tapes to Ford, however lackadaisically, is trying motivation...

...They are a society of Guyans have bought homes and made our streets to life...