Daily if® Trojan
Volume LXVI, Number 13
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, October 3, 1973
Times National Editor Deplores Enemies List
BY PETER WONG
Managing Editor
Edwin 0. Guthman, national editor of the Los Angeles Times, isn't certain why he was one of more than 50 journalists on the infamous White House enemies list disclosed at the Senate Watergate hearings.
However, he doesn't think his inclusion on the list is amusing.
“IT’S NOT a joke. Friends and associates, even conservative Republicans, come up to me and say congratulations. but perhaps this reaction merely tells something about the public mood.” Guthman said in an interview Monday.
“I can say this, though —nothing like this has ever taken place in government.”
Guthman was special press assistant in the Justice Department during Robert F. Kennedy's tenure as attorney general, from 1961 to 1964.
After Kennedy resigned to run for the U.S. Senate in New York. Guthman became an adviser. Guthman served as Sen. Kennedy’s assistant for one year, then resigned in 1965 to join the Los Angeles Times.
WHEN JOHN W. DEAN III, President Nixon's former counsel, gave the list to the Senate committee in June, a comment was written by Guthman's name.
“It is time to give him the message,” a White House staff member wrote in 1971.
What message did the Nixon administration intend to send to Guthman?
“I really have no answer as to what the message was. because I never got one,” Guthman said.
Guthman will speak today at noon in Hancock Auditorium, not Bovard Auditorium as announced. His appearance is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
“WAS IT harassment of my wife and four children? Wras it burglary of my home? Was it tapping of my telephone? Was it rifling of my office? Was it an attempt to have me fired from the Times? Was it a threat to audit my income-tax returns? W’as it an investigation of my personal life by Tony Ulasewicz?” Ulasewicz, a former policeman in New York, was
EDWIN GUTHMAN
hired to investigate the personal lives of certain politicians. including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).
“THE MESSAGE certainly could have been communicated by one or more of the above ways—and we now know from the WTatergate hearings that all these actions were contemplated, and some carried out,” he said.
“You don't know what it does to you inside to be told you are on a Wfhite House list and labeled evil.’’
Guthman said such a list “smacks of the police-state mentality.”
“This has been terribly damaging to the Nixon administration because it shows the state of mind of his top officials—that they would resort to any tactics,” he said.
CAREER OFFICIALS in the Justice Department have testified at the Senate hearings about the interference in their investigation of Watergate by WThite House assistants. How did Guthman view this?
“What deeply impressed me while I was in the Kennedy administration was the high caliber of career government workers in many departments, and especially in the Department of Justice,” Guthman said.
“One ofthe tragedies ofthe Nixon administration is that his top people didn't understand this. They thought the government was honeycombed with Democrats and couldn’t be bent to the will of the White House.” “ACTUALLY, the government is honeycombed with fine public servants, who should have been trsuted and their advice solicited.
“If this had happened, what former Atty. Gen. (John N.) Mitchell described as Wrhite House Horrors’ would not have taken place.” Guthman said that break-ins relating to national security matters were not a normal Justice Department procedure, contrary to President Nixon's assertion at his press conference in August in San Clemente.
“As we now know, the FBI engaged in this practice for a long period, but without the
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THEODORE CHEN
Myths of China Dispelled by Prof
BY SARAH HECK
Staff Writer
Americans have preconceived notion of what China is like, and these contain a good deal of fantasy mixed with fact, said Theodore H.E. Chen, professor of international education, at a meeting of the Town and Gown Club Tuesday.
The luncheon-meeting was attended by approximately 150 members of Town and Gown.
Chen spoke on “China Today” and continually emphasized the misconceptions Americans have about China. He cited newspaper articles and television programs that refer to China in a “rose-colored and sentimental light.”
HE REMEMBERED read ing a newspaper article after
President Nixon’s trip to China which reported that millions of Chinese feast daily on gourmet meals of Peking duck in the city’s
10,000	restaurants.
It is true that Peking duck is a Chinese dish, he said, t and that there are restaurants. But to say that millions of people eat that well is fantasy.
Looking on one side of China, Chen said. “In the last 24 years (since the Com--munist regime came into power) there has been real progress in China.”
Visible examples of this progress are the wider and cleaner streets, the improved transportation, new bridges, factories and the advanced farming methods used. Chen said.
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CHALLENGE TO RESTRICTIONS
Rhodes Grants:	for	Men	Only?
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BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
Can a woman be a Rhodes scholar?
That is what Spencer Pollard, professor of economics and campus representative ofthe Rhodes committee, intends to find out this year.
The scholarships, which enable 32 students from the United States to travel to the University of Oxford in England, have always been distributed exclusively to men But Pollard is inviting women at USC to apply for the awards in an effort to effect a change in this tradition.
POLLARD, who following his undergraduate days at Harvard, be-
came a Rhodes scholar himself, said, “It is not only our law but our ethic to include women.”
Pollard said he is not sure whether the Rhodes committee will consider applications from women, because the terms ofthe will under which the Rhodes trust was set up specifies the scholars must be male.
However, he said the terms of the will could be changed by an act of Parliament. Pollard said such an act could be considered, since five ofthe 30 Oxford colleges are for women and several are coeducational.
Pollard is now accepting applications for the scholarship prog-
ram in his office, Social Sciences B8.
ONLY TWO USC students have gained Rhodes scholarships in the past 50years and Pollard said part of the reason is USC’s lack of independent study programs.
“USC seems to have a policy of no free time for students,” he said, “and of keeping students so busy at assigned tasks that they have no opportunity to do projects on their own.”
“Since study at Oxford is conducted on an almost entirely independent basis,” Pollard said, “the Rhodes committee asks the applicant to present evidence of an abilitv to work on such a basis.”
Applicants for the scholarships must be United States citizens, residents for at least five years, and unmarried. They must also be between the ages of 18 and 24 and of at least junior standing.
The stipend of a Rhodes scholarship consists of a direct payment to Oxford of approved fees (about $1,440) and a direct grant to the student of $2,400 a year.
The scholarships are made for an initial two-year period and must be renewed for the third year. A student may be allowed to apply the third year of his scholarship to another university.
Last year USC submitted four names in nomination for the scholarship^—all male.