Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of the author. TThis must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1972 News Phone: 764-0552 Endorsements .. BASED UPON endorsements explained in Saturday's Daily, we urge the following votes in today's primary election: State Representative (Derocrat): Helen Forsyth U.S. Congress (Democrat): Walter Shapiro Circuit Court (Non-partisan): Jerold Lax and Patrick Conlin FOR LACK OF a satisfactory candidate, we urge voters to abstain in the County Sheriff's pri- mary. These endorsements are for today's primary election only, and should not be regarded as apply- ing to the November general election. This must be noted in all reprints. -The Michigan Daily Who REALLY wants to see Moon elected? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT that The Ann Arbor News and the Ann Arbor Sun would. ever agree on anything? But both newspapers, for their own reasons, have decided to endorse the same person for the Demo- cratic nomination for Washtenaw County Sheriff-Harold Moon Pity poor Fred Postill. At one time Postill thought that his campaign would convince people he was a pro- gressive liberal and he would sweep to victory on the combined votes of students, liberals, and freaks. But Postill from the beginning has been attacked by most of the media in the county. The Ann Arbor News, in Sunday's endorsement edi- torial, said Postill's campaign was based on hatred of Sheriff Doug Harvey. They said as a deputy Postill "was a hard-line, quick on the draw (and the fist) type officer." DON'T LET THE NEWS endorsement fool you. They don't really want Moon to be Sheriff. The News is hoping for the Republican Undersheriff Harold Owings- their endorsed candidate-to be elected and they feel that Moon would be the easiest person for Owings to beat. The Ann Arbor Sun has also been trying to discredit Postill over the past few weeks; and has rightly charged that Postill's program doesn't deal with the real issues that concern the people in the county. Postill's plans will increase the budget and better equip the police, but will not stop corporate polluters, nor prevent rent freeze violations, for example. RUT JUST like The News, The Sun does not want Moon to be Sheriff. The Sun wants a Human Rights Party candidate to be Sheriff. The Sun's staff figures that if Postill is defeated or if he only wins by a small margin, it will increase the chances of an HRP victory in the fall. Neither of the two major college newspapers in the county, The Eastern Echoi and The Daily, have made any endorsements for the Sheriff's race. The Echo didn't because they have a policy of not making political endorsements and we at The Daily didn't because we feel that none of the present candidates would measure up. Perhaps HRP will find an acceptable can- didate. jT IS SAD when two area newspapers endorse a candi- date without making their real reasons clear to their readers. Both The News and The Sun owe it to their readers to explain that they are really supporting Moon because he will be easy to beat. -THE MICHIGAN DAILY Today's Staff ... News: Meryl Gordon, Carla Rapoport, Ralph Vartabeldion Editorial Page: Alan Lenhoff Photo technician: Denny Gainer l ra _ e t G -I era rcP GOP JUSTICE WASHINGTON - Every citizen, regardless of politics, is supposed to get a fair shake from our legal authorities. But the Justice De- partment is a little more fair if you happen to be a Republican. Here are just a few examples: . Over two years ago, I pre- sented conclusive evidence t h a t Republican Rep. Jim Collins, a Texas millionaire, was squeezing salary kickbacks out of his staff. The FBI reluctantly investigated and an indictment was handed down. But it wasn't Collins who was charged. It was his adminis- trative assistant, George H a a g . Last month, Haag was found guilty in federal court. Collins, who mas- terrninded the plot, remains free. I also reported that A r c h Moore, the rotund Republican gov- ernor of WestcVirginia, had stuf- fed political contributions in his own pocket. The Internal Revenue Service investigated and f o u n d Moore had under-reported his in- come by at least $131,000 over a five-year period. Yet the Justice Department quietly allowed Moore to settle his tax case out of court. * Over the past few years, Teamsters boss Frank Fitzsim- mons has developed a close rela- tionship with President Nixon, Fitz- simmon's son, Richard, is a local union official in Detroit. He has come under investigation for al- legedly purchasing gasoline for his personal cars with union funds. But Fitzsimmons senior promised to deliver the Teamsters' endorse- ment to Nixon. At the same time, the federal investigation of Fitz- simmons junior suddenly stalled. The statue of justice wears a blindfold - supposedly to prevent discrimination. But the Republi- cans have provided justice with a GOP seeing-eye dog. CHlINA CONFIDENTIALT House leaders Hale Boggs and Gerald Ford recently returned from a trip to Communist China. Here are excerpts from their con- fidential report to the President: " Boggs and Ford held more than six hours of private talks with Premier Chou En-lai. They informed the President he had fav- orably impressed the wily o 1 d Chou during their summit meet- ing. The Chinese leader respects Nixon particularly for his grasp of international affairs. O Boggs and Ford also retr Yed the astounding report that R e d China doesn't really want the Unit- ed States to disarm. They want us out of Vietnam but they want Gerald Ford Hale Boggs Just back from a chat with Chou LIs to withdraw carefully. They definitely do not want us to leave the Pacific entirely. The reason for this is China's f e a r Rus- sia would move into the vacuum. * The Soviets will never dis- arm, the Chinese feel, and a u r disarmament would serve only to upset the current balance of super- powers and threaten world stabil- ity. * Boggs and Ford also told Nix- on that Chou doesn't approve of suggestions to pull U.S. troops out of Europe. As long as we are there, the Chinese reason, Russia will have to keep troops on their Euro- pean front. This, in turn, dimish- es their strength along the Chinese border. MISSION JERUSALEM Israeli diplomats here are quiet- ly passing the word among their American-Jewish friends that Is- rael prefers President Nixon over George McGovern in the 11F72 presidential race. Alarmed that Jews may' defect in large numbers from the Demo- cratic party this November, George McGovern has sent top aide Myer Feldman and I d a h o Senator Frank Church to Israel to talk with Golda Meir. Meanwhile, Egypt's decision to expel thousands of Russian tmili- tary advisers is causing several of its Arab neighbors to re-eval- uate their relations with the Unit- ed States. Some Arab leaders expect the United States to move back into the Arab world as the Soviets are compelled to withdraw. The Arab country most actively-seeking bet- ter relations with the United Stat- es is Sudan. One intelligence re- port suggests that Sudan may be- gin negotiations to exchange am- bassadors with the United States as early as this year. CASH BACKLASH The money crisis in the Demo- cratic party apparently is having a backlash effect on the Republi- cans. The Democrats are so badly tn debt that the GOP money men are having problems convincing potential contributors that they too need cash for campaigning. Congressman Bob Wilson. t h e Republican congressional cam- paign chairman, sent out a recent fund-raising solicitation to past GOP contributors that rang with desperation. Wilson's appeal was printed on telegram paper, but sent through the mails. In the clipped tones of Western Union, Wilson wrote: "Ra- dical liberal organizations are put- ting all they have behind a plan to elect even more liberal Demo- crat Congress in November. Cannot match that big msoney but believe we can win bare majority in Con- gress in '72 even on tight budget Emergency TV film costs . not yet covered. I am grateful for your past contributions . . . tut must ask again." Equally urgent is the plea re- cently sent on behalf of S o u t h Carolina's Republican senator, Strom Thurmond. Enclosed with the letter is a. snapshot of Sena- tor Thurmond's campaign office in Columbia. "It's been empty like this for several days now," says the letter, "because we don't have the money to put in desks, chairs, tables and phones." c) 1972 United Feature Syndicate Bremer, Eagleson: Who's sane? By CHRIS PARKS ON THE SURFACE it would seem that there is little con- nection between Sen. Thomas Eagleton, George McGovern's former running mate and Arthur Bremer, assailant of George Wal- lace. However, in a sense, both men were on trial last week and both lost. And in each case the cru- cial determining factor was their mental stability. Ironically Eagleton lost because he failed to convince those judg- ing him that he was sane while Bremer lost because he failed to prove himself insane. Eagleton, an energetic and ag- gressive junior senator from Missouri admitted two weeks ago that he had untdergone electra- shuck treatments for mental de- pression following an election about 10 years ago. Both he and his doctors are satisfied at this point that he has been cured. THE ADMISSION, however, touched off a torrent of protest and calls for his resignation. The New York Times ques- tioned whether Eagleton could withstand the "fearful pressures" of the Presidency. Matthew Troy, a leading Mc- Govern backer in New York, put it more bluntly saying he could not support the Democratic tic- ket knowing that Eagleton might have his finger on the nuclear trigger. Eagleton had to go, McGovern said, because "the public debate over his past medical history con- tinues to divert attention from the great national issues that need to be discussed." Four days later, Brener was convicted in Upper Marlboro, Maryland of the attempted as- sassination of George Wallace. Who pulled the trigger was river in question in the trial. rie basis of Brener'shdefense was his attorney's contention that he was insane. BREMER'S PLANS and dreams as revealed in his diary clearly showed him to be a disturbed person. The evidence strongly suggests that he is a deeply schizoid per- sonality according to several doe- tors. His medical history is filled with sexual frustration, rejection and isolation. Yet it took the jury only a lit- tle over an hour to find him sane and therefore guilty. An attorney for the prosecu- tion explained that Bremer had to be convicted despite the sanity question in order to change "the opinion in thisanation and the world that s'e are a lawles~s na- tion." The platitudinous excuses of- fered in each case do not hide the essential shabbiness of the decisions. IN THE NAME of expediency we have found Eagleton to be in- sane and Bretmer to be sane. It is a very curious judgment. The Editorial Page of The Michigan Daily is open to any one who wishes to submit articles, Generally speaking, all articles should be less than 1,000 words.