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OO Tt RIGAT by WEY. Buckler 4. -2- For ReleadPecomber 17 or 12), er thereafter. a and ieon't it oftem beyond the limits of husan endurance te euppreas the knowledge of whet ons discovers about the delinquencies of Jamas -- and of John-< when {nm the course ef listening to Prank, ove comes across the venial sine of bis friends? Last week the sewe was published of the arrest of a young lady who thought, ia bebalf of herself, her lower, end an accomplice, to enhance their common fortumes by $36,000 by the simple expedient of pretending to have drowned eocidentaily last suecer. The police and the insurance company suspected that the ledy lived, went to a judge and got his permission to tape the lover's phone, and sure enough the lady called in from her hiding place in the suburbs to whisper a happy Thanksgiving to her Romeo. The converastion was recorded, the calling mumber Instantly tracked dows, the body resurrected, aad the insurance company ssved $36,000, , & success story -~ with however disturbing implications. Here is the use of a wire tap other than for reasons of national security or in order to prevent violence, Me, James Reston reveals that the telephone of De. Martin Luther King was tapped during Selma, sc that che authorities might know, just how riotous ware his intentions, Hr. Hoover's loyalty to hia job is a monument of civil rectitude, and for that reason he is loath to make recommendations that have the effect of attach- ing him to fine and coutroversial value judgeents. But he should step forward at this point and divulge his own recommendations concerning destrable and un- desirable eavesdropping. The discussion should outlast the controversy over whether Bobby knew of the existence of thia or thst bug. For instance, would it be licit to bug a conversation between Mr. Kennedy, Attorney General, and Mr. Hoover, Director of the Bureau, which recorded the former's enthusiastic aasent to the use of the bug? / (Distributed by the Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.) / Released Exclusively T bre THE WASHINGTON STAR SYNDICATE, INC, 444 Medison Ave, New York, N, ¥. 10022 Tels 212-EL 53-7137