Correspondents' Correspondence

...Mollenhoff yelled, leaning forward into the camera, pointing his finger...

...Appearing on the Frank Mankie-wicz-Thomas Braden interview program, the former Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraker for the Des Moines Register (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Vice President) left no stone unthrown and no panel participant uninterrupted during his often incoherent presentation...

...Some 100,000 people attended to observe the mass trial of some selected "counterrevolutionaries...

...Friends of Raymond K. Price, a reasonable, progressive Republican and a former editorial writer to boot, are shocked to hear him slide into irrational peevishness when the subject of the newspapers is broached...

...The Atlanta program, which would fall under the Damoclean ax handle of Maddox, illustrates the wide range of current activities...

...Angered by the intense political indoctrination they received from Maoist regiment officers, the men left and established a guerrilla base in the mountains...

...It was described and defended last week by new Atlanta mayor Sam Massell in forlornly belated hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower and Poverty...

...They stole weapons, robbed banks, attacked local Communist officials, and soon forced the Army to suppress the outburst...

...Yet Mao's efforts seem to be to no avail...

...The two columnists, he charged, had propagated a "fraud" in their reporting of the controversy stirred by Clement Haynsworth's nomination to the Supreme Court...

...A couple of days later Clark Mollenhoff stormed onto television to fight the medium on its own air...

...In response, The People's Daily, the Party's major newspaper, could only muster a meek confession: "It is not easy to consolidate political power...

...But sporadic fighting has continued...

...HONG KONG Travelers arriving here from Canton report that many runaway Red Guards hide by day and roam in gangs after dark, stealing to support themselves...

...Under the aggressive leadership of Michael Padnos, this service has forced the city's public housing authority to establish a tenant grievance panel to adjudicate a new and now widely imitated bill of rights for occupants of public housing...

...Only last month a "state of anarchy" was declared in the north central province of Shansi: Peasants, workers, and students, rebelling against stringent cuts in food rations and other hardships, went on the rampage...

...Perhaps only intervention by the President can save the program now...

...What it can muster at the moment is a glamorous Republican congressman, an offensive guard and a fight for survival...

...The Republican congressman is Donald Rumsfeld of Illinois, Nixon's director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, whose style of leadership was symbolized by one of his first decisions in office: to replace the stark photographs of poverty on oeo's walls with travelogue blandscapes...

...Now it seems to be attacking the mirrors themselves-that is, the media...

...The Party's continuing inability to implement central authority was further demonstrated in Szechwan, China's most populous province...

...WASHINGTON The Nixon Administration increasingly resembles a dissatisfied man confronting a group of mirrors...

...Of course, virtually the entire program contravenes the Murphy criteria...

...They demanded that next year's fellowship grant of $4 million be entirely administered by Glenn Carr, a young militant professor at Howard University Law School...

...Model Cities capitulated on all the demands, including new provisions for relocation of evictees and assignment of a construction contract to a community organization -rather than to an outside builder, as originally planned...

...Buchanan's chief assistant in this job is Carol Bauman, an arch Right-winger who formerly served as an editor of the New Guard, the magazine of the Young Americans for Freedom, yaf has been recently moving Leftward, but Miss Bauman has not followed...

...Yes, a fraud...

...The trouble comes on all sides?from black militants to predatory slum lords-but its most dangerous| source is Senator George Murphy of California, former song-and-dance man...

...Not even the Army, though, has been left untouched by the country's disruptive climate...

...Around the White House it seems Agnews is still good news...

...A fraud...

...Spiro Agnew's reflectophobia is merely the most public manifestation of an entire Administration seething with animosity toward the news media...

...The Executive Branch reflectophobia has even reached its top speech writers...

...Ostensibly China's one stable organization, the Army has suffered the embarrassment of a revolt by a battalion in Kwangsi-Chuang province...

...He expressed particular indignation at the class actions which are the core of the service and, among a large number of other accomplishments, forced Governor Ronald Reagan of California to restore cuts he had made in state funding for Medicaid...

...The legal aid program has also acted aggressively to publicize and eliminate consumer fraud, mobilizing scores of young volunteers from the city's law firms to help in the effort...

...Although the meeting was designed in part to inform the Senate press secretaries of advanced techniques developed by the Nixon PR men to make and influence the news, the only new technique revealed was Nofziger's suggestion that the senators "call names...

...First it applied public relations cosmetics to achieve a better image...

...Meanwhile, at oeo headquarters in Washington, Lenzner was incarcerated in his office by a group of black militant lawyers in the Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship program...

...Returning visitors also tell of soldiers with fixed bayonets patrolling the streets, and anti-Mao posters and handbills plastered on city walls...

...The offensive guard is legal aid director Terry Lenzner, the former Harvard football captain whose energetic drive for his program is undermined by unfamiliarity with the Washington political playbook...

...A few months ago, troops were needed to quell food riots and factory looting...

...Nixon has on three occasions expressed opposition to "crippling amendments" to oeo, but he has yet to diagnose the maiming potential of the Murphy amendment...

...Because the most effective programs are in such states as Georgia (Lester Maddox) and Mississippi (John Bell Williams), a governor's veto would virtually destroy them...

...Now an Administration troubleshooter, he was so shaken with emotion he could not properly aim his words...

...But if the Murphy amendment is upheld in the House, as now seems likely, it really won't matter very much if Carr awards all the grants to members of the Florida A&M marching band...

...Then it started making faces...

...Rebellious youngsters, however, form only a part of Canton's general breakdown of order...

...Mao's regime has made several appeals for unity, most notably the campaign launched last August with a mammoth rally in a Peking stadium...

...Hong Kong officials estimate that over 800 illegal immigrants enter the colony each month, the majority of them young people...

...It has halted the Atlanta Model Cities plans in its bulldozer tracks by a suit to gain greater citizen participation...

...The other key word-smith, Patrick Buchanan, formerly of the St...

...There the Army had to be called in to protect government installations and railways from imminent destruction by the feuding local factions...

...The day before the October Moratorium, with a large number of Senate liberals either absent or absent-minded, he introduced his amendment to the oeo authorization, giving governors an absolute veto over legal aid programs, in whole or in part...

...Louis Globe-Democrat is even more spiteful toward the press...

...asked Mankiewicz...

...The Buchanan-Bauman team of press watchers will be unhappy until the mirror on the wall, asked who is truly the fairest of all, is unable to decide between Spiro Agnew and Attorney General John Mitchell...

...The "Reggie" Fellowship, for service with oeo legal aid programs, is currently one of the most coveted law school awards (over 70 applicants from Harvard last year...

...Thus it is not reassuring to those concerned with the isolation of the President that Buchanan's office is responsible for the daily preparation of Nixon's press summary...

...He can scarcely talk anymore (he has a special microphone at his Senate desk), but shows every determination to use his last gasp to fight against granting the poor the Constitutional rights available to his campaign contributors...

...Some of the displaced youths are trying to escape across the border...

...Republican senatorial press aides were recently startled when a briefing given by Herb Klein and Lyn Nofziger, who are in charge of "communications" at the White House, turned into a petulant session of gripes against reporters...

...The legal services program?once the proudest achievement of the War on Poverty-has itself become an indigent suspect before Congress, charged with everything from barratry to revolution, and is in sore need of a high level public defender...

...Lenzner gave in, went upstairs, and announced his decision to Rumsfeld, who indignantly reversed it...