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mow -I 311 I I I I I I GET THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY. IF YOU HATE IT, IT’S FREE. But we think you’ll like it. Time says it’s “must reading,” The New York Times says it’s “indispensable,” and The Washington Post says it “does its specialtypolitics and governmentbetter than any other magazine around.” The Washington Monthly was the first magazine to reveal the political contributions of the dairy lobby. It was the first to expose Nixon’s strategy of impoundment. In April, 1973three months before John Dean’s testimony, fifteen months before the Judiciary Committee released its evidenceit was the first and only publication to report how the White House blocked congressional attempts to investigate Watergate before the 1972 election, when the truth could still have saved us. Here’s what’s in the current issue Jack Anderson and the Eagleton Affair, by ,Brit HUme. Anderson’s former associate, the man who broke the Dita Beard story, has some important and little known lessons about why reporters can go wrong. Bill MoyersHis Heart Belongs to Daddy, by James Fallows. The former top Presidential assistant who has in turn succeeded as newspaper publisher, author, and television producer is examined by a Washington Monthly editor who David Halberstam says “is so good he leaves me breathless.” Kissinger and the Brothers Kalb, by Roger Morris. Having worked with Kissinger on the National Security Council, Morris has seen what Kissinger’s new biographers missed. Denenberg and FlahertyPolitics After Common Cause, by Walter Shapiro. What would happen if they took all the money out of politics? This very nearly happened in the recent Pennsylvania senate primary,.with some surprisingand amusingresults. See for yourselfsend for your free copy today. romosommommosomlimmilmomommannolimmeim The washington monthly I. 1028 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D. C. 20036 I I I will be that. In either case, the complimentary copy is mine to keep. Washington Monthly, I will receive a one-year subscription for $10. If Please send me a complimentary copy of the current issue. If I like The I don’t like it, I will write “cancel” across your bill, return it, and that I Name I I Address I City State Zip provision. No amount of arguing has swayed him. Senate Interior Committee has recently come out with a decision which may render the dispute over government possession obsolete. In reporting out of committee a bill to protect the Piscataway National Park in Maryland, the Senate committee has agreed on a one-year “directed taking” provision, which may turn out to be close enough to the House’s six-month “legislative taking” provision to make compromise a fait accompli. In short, obstacles to action on the Thicket may have been virtually removed. Conservationists, however, remain suspicious, and not without reason, considering the by now rather long history of their thwarted efforts. It is not the function of a subcommittee ‘ chairman to exercise veto power over legislation already passed by both the House and the Senate. Representative Taylor may achieve that remarkable feat, however. It is not the function of a Senate subcommittee chairman to allow the creation of a biological reserve one-third to one-half of which may be clearcut before the reserve begins to function. But Senator Bible may crown his legislative career with such a triumph. In the meantime, conservationists are doing everything possible to forestall clearcutting and to force action. They are requesting that letters and telegrams urging immediate action be sent to Taylor. They are soliciting a similar campaign on behalf of immediate government possession of the Thicket, with Bible and Sen. Henry Interior Committee, as addressees. These are the sort of weapons the public has, and one has no other recourse in a crunch than to try to use them. Personally, I have been able to think up one further weapon. I have promised to write a song about Roy Taylor, naming him the killer of the Big Thicket, if Thicket legislation dies in this session of Congress, and to sing that song in every county seat in his Appalachian-poor district just prior to the next election. There may be better ways to get action. But this is the very least that one can do. IDA PRESS 901 W 24th St Austin Multi copy service. Call 477-3641 The Outpost Austin’s Best Barbecue 11:30-7:30 Daily, Except Sunday David and Marion Moss 345-9045 Highway 183 North