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ALL EDITIONS Fit, Sept. 15, 197S A-7 The Arizona Republic Letters To The Editor George Lardner Jr. Magazine Seeks Destruction Of CIA Tom Braden Human Rights: A Success For Carter Health Centers Work undertaking is unclear. Alder said Schaap, Agee and all the others who could answer such questions were in Havana. In announcing the plans there, Agee and Schaap have said they hope to establish a worldwide network of "researchers" who will keep CIA officers under close scrutiny and forward their names to the Covert Action Information Bulletin for publication.

Others associated with Agee in the so-called "CIA Watch" are James and Elsie Wilcott, former CIA finance and support personnel. IN A JOINT statement in the first issue of Covert Action entitled "Who We Are," Agee and the others describe the magazine as a successor to the defunct Counter-Spy, which went out of business a year and a half ago. Counter-Spy folded after a welter of controversy over the 1975 assassination in Athens of CIA Station Chief Richard S. Welch. The magazine had listed Welch's name earlier, as a CIA official stationed in Peru.

Unlike Counter-Spy, Agee and the others said in the first issue of Covert Action, "We are confident that there will be sufficient subscribers to make this publication a permanent weapon in the fight against the CIA, the FBI, military intelligence and all the other instruments of U.S. imperialist oppression throughout the world." According to John H. Rees, editor of a conservative newsletter called Information Digest and Washington correspondent for the Review of the News magazine, Schaap is a member of the National Lawyers Guild, and, with Ray, served on the Counter-Spy magazine advisory board. The two also participated together in the National Lawyer Guild's Southeast Asia Military Law Project and served as the guild's observers in, February of 1977 at the Baader-Meinhof trials in Hamburg, Rees reported in Information Digest's latest issue. Several hundred copies of Covert Action were reportedly sent out from Washington, and more were distributed in Havana, all free.

The Washington Post Washington At the heart of the nation's capital, near Washington's bustling Du-pont Circle, is the apparently temporary headquarters of a new international campaign to the Central Intelligence Agency. The announcements are being made in Havana, but the vehicle of the campaign is a magazine being put together by former CIA officer Philip Agee, "the agency's No. 1 nemesis," and a number of colleagues bent on "exposing CIA personnel and operations whenever and wherever we find them." The new publication, which is expected to appear roughly six times a year, is called the Covert Action Information Bulletin, and its tone is uncompromising. Urging a worldwide effort to print the name of anyone who works abroad for the CIA, Agee advises readers of the premier issue not to stop there. Once the names have been made public, he recommends: "Then organize public demonstrations against those named both at the American Behind The News embassy and at their homes and, where possible, bring pressure on the government to throw them out.

Peaceful protest will do the job. And when it doesn't, those whom the CIA has most oppressed will find other ways of fighting back." Agee concludes: "We can all aid this struggle, together with the struggle for socialism in the United States itself." ft ft ft "THIS THING is incredible unbelievable," exclaimed CIA spokesman Herbert Hetu. "The motivation of these people has got to be more than that they're just ticked off at the CIA. "This goes beyond whistle-blowing," Hetu said of the magazine. "Whistle-blowing is supposed to be directed at wrongdoing.

These people are operating under the overall pretext that everything we do is wrong." Expelled from Britain and a sue- Joseph Kraft KEE RASH. The Atljona RepuW'c cession of other Western European countries over the past two years, Agee is reportedly living in Rome, but the magazine is being published here by C.I. Publications a non-profit corporation set up in the District of Columbia on Dec. 22. Its incorporators, directors and officers are William H.

Schaap, a lawyer and editor in chief of a newsletter called the Military Law Reporter; Ellen Ray, a colleague of Schaap on various boards and projects; and Louis Wolf, co-editor with Agee of a new book entitled Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe. The book is designed partly as a how-to-do-it manual aimed at "breaking the 'cover' of thousands of CIA agents around the world." The headquarters of C. I. Publications Inc. is given in the incorporation papers as a sixth-floor suite in the Dupont Circle Building on Connecticut which houses the Public Law Education Institute.

The institute's president, Thomas 0. Alder, recently told a reporter he had not been aware of Schaap's use of the address for his "sideshow" magazine and indicated he would put a stop to it. The institute publishes the Military Law Reporter, which Schaap edits. The financing for the new Editor: I have read with interest Jack Swanson's series on the proliferation of emergency medical centers in our Valley. At Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, we have created alternatives to the more expensive and often overuti-lized 24-hour emergency service.

They are called Family Health Centers. These centers in Fountain Hills and North Scottsdale were established with the knowledge that many people who use emergency centers, do not need that level, and, consequent cost of medical care. Further, our Family Health Centers respond to the fact that large segments of our expanding population no longer have reasonable access to traditional medical coverage. The Family Health Centers have small laboratories, X-ray equipment, fracture splints and casts, cardiac and pulmonary resuscitation units, and minor surgery capability for cuts, wounds, foreign object removal, all under the direction of a family physician. The physician provides personalized, continuing and comprehensive care for those people in the region who do not already have a physician.

He will suggest referrals for patients who need the assistance of a specialist, he will also provide services to patients of other physicians, upon re- Kilpatrick Misinforms Editor: James J. Kilpatrick's piece raises the very important issue of the potential for violation of the right to privacy of the individual and the family unit through the testing of children by the schools without parental permission. Indeed, safeguards must be instituted to prevent such possible erosion of personal freedom. Unfortunately, an equally great threat to the cause of individual freedom and the people's right to know is posed by Kilpatrick's interjection of several tangential concerns, which only serve to confuse and confound his original issue. Kilpatrick takes "behaviorists" to task, but nowhere discusses the practical or philosophical relevance of his original issue to behaviorism.

Is Kilpatrick to have us believe that invasion of privacy is the exclusive domain of the "behavioral Apparently not, since the quotes he includes by Sen. S.I. Haya-kawa imply a way of thinking and diagnosing which is anything but behavioral in orientation. Secondly, Kilpatrick's emphasis on the supposed dichotomy between education and therapy seems included for journalistic effect only. Indeed, there may be important differences in emphasis and approach between education and therapy in many cases.

However, if the goal of education is the acquisition of the knowledge and skills necessary to live effectively in our society, as Kilpatrick suggests, then those goals are largely shared with most forms of therapy, expecially the much decried "behavioral approach." Indeed, the line between good education based on sound behavioral principles, and effective remedial and therapeutic techniques based on those same principles, is virtually indistinguishable. Certainly, Kilpatrick has raised an important issue relating to public education and personal freedoms. However, by including several other largely unrelated issues colored by his personal and ideological biases, he serves to misinform the very people he wishes to educate, and does damage to the very principles he supposedly holds dear. GERALD S. MAYER Phoenix SCOOPS Washington President Anas-tasio Soraoza of Nicaragua is "fed up" with President Carter's human rights policy and this is as good an indication as we are likely to see that the human rights policy is beginning to bite.

It is important to note this fact because the right wing in this country, having hung back for a while in the hope that the policy would lead to a confrontation with the SovietUnion and that this confrontation might upset the SALT talks, has now decided to attack it. That word a Somoza spokesman used to describe Patricia Derian, the assistant secretary of state for human rights, was a dead giveaway. Where except in right-wing circles inthe United States is the word "Marxist" an epithet? Where but among American right-wingers would that word be flung at some whose field of expertise and interest is unrelated to economics? IN A LITTLE-NOTED speech last February before the American Bar Association, Deputy Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher listed what he called "tangible evidence from every continent that the condition of large numbers of people individual, identifiable human beings is less oppressive now than it seemed one'year ago." Since then, more evidence has come to hand. For example, reports of torture in Iranian prisons have virtually ceased since the Shah of under consistent inquiry from U.S.

officials, issued orders to his jailers to tease and desist. In South Korea, political prisoners have been released. Indonesia is' on schedule with its promise to release 10,000 political prisoners each' year for three years. In India, there has been a resurgence of democracy. In Pakistan, 11,000 political prisoners have been released.

Some of the African nations seem to be turning toward democratic forms. In Chile, the United States once again stands forth as a champion of democracy rather than as a backer of dictators. The Letelier case, which ''the Carter administration has bravely on pursuing, seems certain either to make the Pinochet regime a more liberal one or to bring about downfall. In the Soviet Union, where the human rights campaign has aroused the same vocal opposition and name-calling as it has in "the Russian leaders have nevertheless been gradually liberalizing their policy toward emigration of Jews. After the Jackson-Vanik Amendment denied the Russians most-favored-nation status, this emigration fell to a trickle.

But it is now back up again up to 25,000 exit visas per year. True that in Cambodia whee, we have no leverage, human rights do hot exist. True that in China where' we have very little leverage, terrible violations are thought to occur. i- BUT THE point is that where we do have leverage, we have seen progress. Our ambassadors are under instruction to raise the problem of human rights violations whenever these can be documented.

Before Carter's human rights policy, was announced, this sort of thing was almost, never done. On the contrary, for an ambassador to raise with the leader of another country the future or the welfare of that leader's political prisoners would have been regarded as gauche. So we were tredding softly where we should have been speaking plainly. After all, the right to be free is hat the United States stands for. We cannot guarantee freedom everywhere in the world.

But as Christopher has suggested, "The widening of the circle, of countries which share our human rights values is at the very core of our security interests." That widening seems to be place. Carter's human rights policy is the one indisputable foreign policy success of his Administration. quest. Urgent medical problems are seen at once. We now have only one shift of physician coverage which will be expanded as volume increases.

However, we maintain 24-hour telephone coverage by a physician member of the staff. In Fountain Hills, we are fortunate to have stand-by coverage by physicians who live in the community who can respond to life threatening complications on a moment's notice. Because we do not have to sustain the overhead of physicians and staff for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we can charge fees like that of a doctor's office, and not the high rates of emergency centers. When a patient is in a life threatening situation, we stabilize the patient and send him to the hospital, just as emergency centers must do. Sometimes the public equates 24-hour emergency service with medical security.

We, and most hospitals, provide iht kind of service. However, the tr. is that the public does not need, nor can they afford a true emergency center in every community. some cases, they think they have one, and don't. Even though a sign may say, "Emergency the so-called center may not have been approved by the state, and may not meet the standards of the American Society of Emergency Physicians, and may not have a physician in attendance.

ARTHUR D. NELSON, M.D. President Scottsdale Memorial Hospital Rep. Rudd Irresponsible Editor: Rep. Eldon Rudd's recent statements to the American Legion are both irresponsible and indicative of his continued misunderstanding of the importance and necessity of democratic safeguards ensuring freedom from civil and political repression.

It appears that he fears any kind of scrutiny of intelligence agencies and would rather they have license to use their judgment in these matters. The history of the last two decades provides some good reason to not so trust them. A freedom-loving people, strong in their beliefs and values, need only distrust the person who can see nothing but "terrorists" behind every rock and leaf. Much of what Rudd speaks about reminds me of the earlier anti-foreigner attitude of the "red scare" and the "yellow peril." Rudd does not see clearly when and if he reads the Constitution and Declaration of Independence; if he did, he would have voted for tighter control on the activities of intelligence agencies. KENNETH F.

de MASI Mesa History Lessons Appreciated Editor: The Republic Is to be commended, and staff writer Earl Zarbin especially so, for his recent compendium "The Jack Swilling Legacy." These and similar articles demonstrate the fortitude, intrepidity, mettle, and tenacity of these pioneers of the Southwest. To adjust to and tolerate the knaves and injustices of yesteryear and today, the lessons of history contribute immeasurably. KENNETH M. CALHOUN Prescott by Dong Sneyd Mir MDM Sen. Kennedy Lacks A Washington assurances respecting the release of certain dissidents which they hjJ refused the Carter administration.

Game Plan Kennedy is positioning himself on the theory that some third candidate will force him to jump into the race. On the contrary, the stances he has been taking on such matters as health insurance and detente are far too liberal for a national constituency which is edging to the conservative side. Kennedy's campaigning schedule this fall, far from being calculated to build up political IOUs, is remarkably limited. Apart from Massachusetts, he is appearing only on behalf of two candidates for governor Pete Flaherty in Pennsylvania and Dick Celeste in Ohio and seven candidates for Senate. MOST IMPORTANT of all there still remains the major deterrent the danger of another tragic disaster to the head of the Kennedy family.

At the very least it seems doubtful to me that Kennedy would actively seek the presidency while his mother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy, is still alive. The more so as he seems so happy with the role he now enjoys as a liberal leader in the Senate, the coming head of its Judiciary Committee and a man sometimes able to be free from care. One of the first calls he made the other day when he returned to Washington from Russia was to his old friend Speaker Tip O'Neill. The only thing close to a game plan they discussed was how come the Red Sox had lost four in a row to the Yankees.

mi's Ait iw mm fok wns President Leonid Brezhnev received Kennedy even as he was refusing to see Carter's disarmament negotiator Paul Warnke. But that was not the doing of Kennedy, who planned his trip more than a year ago in connection with a health conference in Alma Ata. To be sure, there is Carter's low standing in the polls, even when running head-to-head with Kennedy. Kennedy no longer believes, as he used to, that Carter is a shoo-in for renomination and re-election. IF SOME third Democrat looked like unhorsing Carter, moreover, Kennedy would not comfortably sit on his hands.

But it isn't as though just any Democrat could do that easily. To do what Gene McCarthy did to Lyndon Johnson in 1968, it would require a pure protest candidate, one who is not taken seriously himself but merely gives the voters a chance to express anti-Carter feelings. But candidates of that stripe are extremely rare especially when there is no overwhelming protest issue, such as the Vietnam War. Both Jerry Brown, the California governor, and Pat Moynihan, the New York senator, are too well known as persons and on the issues to be merely protest candidates. And after them, who is there? Certainly there Is no evidence George Mair Another A few weeks ago, I wrote what I had hoped would be my last observations on the most overanalyzed event of 1978, namely, Proposition 13.

However, the reputable pub lic opinion pollster Mervin Field has just released some information that supports what I have said about Proposition 13, so I cannot resist talking about it. Many doomsayers around the nation claimed that the landslide vote which passed Proposition 13 was a conservative, middle-class backlash against non-whites and the poor. Is Ted Kennedy fixing to challenge Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980? A lot of signs point that way. But a couple of recent chats with the senator from Massachusetts persuade me that he has no such design. While circumstances could conceivably force him into the race, he presently feels overexposed and is confining his campaigning this year to a bare minimum.

TO BE SURE those always suspicious of the Kennedy clan and those keen to finish off Carter can find much contrary evidence. Kennedy broke with the administration on national health insurance and the natural gas bill as Carter hit a new low in the public opinion polls. A couple of favorable magazine articles on Joan Kennedy gave credence to the theory that the senator was trying to pre-empt in advance the "moral" issue that has shattered him since Chappaquiddick. On his recent trip to Russia he showed he could get out of the Soviets more than the president or his emissaries. But taken one by one, these inci dents add up to much less than a game plan.

Mrs. Kennedy Initiated the articles to explain why she could not be campaigning with her husband this fall. Kennedy himself has made national health insurance a personal campaign, and felt he would lose credit with liberal and labor backers if he acceded quietly to its burial. Connections with consumer groups determined his stand on the natural gas bill. BUT ON THAT issue where, as the Republicans realize, Carter could be mortally wounded Kennedy has not lobbied against the administration.

"We don't find Kennedy footprints anywhere," John McMil-lian, a pipeline operator who is probably the most effective lobbyist for the bill, said the other day. "We think we'll have the suupport of the 'New England senators." The Russians did give Kennedy Look At Proposition 13 mm, fc? vim urn mr Wild ELSE graphic and social groups go to the polls appeared to hold up remarkably well across partisan, ideological and social class levels." In other words, the vote that'passed Proposition 13 was a cross-section of American society. Field goes on to say, "While there were numerous expressions of 'let's get rid of government' at Proportion 13 voting public seemed to be reacting instead to what they per ceived as unresponsive government." Of course, the final answer to the doomsayers who wailed over the anarchy that would follow Proposition 13 is that overall budgets in California have only been cut 10 percent and no emergency or essential services, have suffered. Others claimed it was a mindless, anti-government vote. The view I have expressed in this column repeatedly is that Americans in general are fed up with arrogant, unresponsive government.

I have even recommended banning the word "government" from the language and substituting "public service." That is what we Americans want public service, not government. ft ft IN THE July-August issue of Public Opinion, Field reports his analysis of the Proposition 13 vote and the results of his public opinion poll on the issue. He says, "Levels of support for Proposition 13 among various demo.