Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1971-07-22
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.......IIY, 1.ly 22, "" . : ~t lew•• Ity, I.w. 1228 {. oil owa '0 ........,y Buckley: Document Story A Hoax NEW YORlt III - With a broad pill, ealItd a boa. W. ...... IlIOl'I IUrpriMd editor William F. Buckley Jr., revealed than anybody at readlna. .th.t not evil! Wednesday that publication III his Na· Dean Rusk hid been able to deny wbal tlonal Review of S<H:811ed secret Viet· was printed. " nam documents was I hoo. In his news conference, Buckley saId: Buckley said the documents were eorn "Cooperation from government official! posed by editors of the mapz\ne ". was neither given nor sought. .. hihllo" - out of IIOthiJIl. "Those who will want to question the The intended purpose, Buckley told a methods we used in order to make ow news conference, was to demonstrate III demonstration may proceed to do 10,' regard to the earlier Pentagon papers Buckley's news conference stltement "that the Pentagon and the CIA are not said. "We admit thlt we proceeded it composed of imcompetents .. tbat something of an ethical vlcuum. forged documents would be widely ac· "The New York Times has instructet! cepted as genuine provided their content us that it is permissible to traffic ir was inherently plausible.. .that the stolen documents. But they have not yet challenge in Southea t Asia was an as. instructed us on whether it is permis pect of the global challenge to the West, sible to traffic in forged documents. II not a local affair." is reported that the editors Ire divldec Later Buckley told a reporter at his on the is ue." Manhattan apartment : "Not wishIng to protract, beyond thl "If the advice gIven In the magazine point of usefulness, the deception, I de E had been followed , we wouldn't be In cided this morning, baving consultec Vietnam today. The point is that the pa. with my colleagues, to advise you of thl L Pet. pers, or something like them. must have character of the documenls, their prov 32 .660 -: been wrltten . Therefore, one concludes enance and the purpose they sought II 43 .543 11 that the difficulty wa not that the Pen· serve, and have served." 44 .522 13 tagon and the CIA gave LBJ bad advice, Buckley met with newsmen as he an< 45 .521 13 but that LBJ didn 't take good advice." his wife arrived .t Kennedy Airport fron Buckley's revelation of the hoax came Seattle, Wash . 54 .432 21 Yo J 57 .394 25 after suspicion arose when everal per· Earlier, author·historian Daniel sons listed as authors of the printed doc· Boorstin denied he had authored one 0 uments couldn't recall writing them. One the 14 so-called secret documents prlntec 38.604 - Oatly denied author hip credited to his by National Review. Four others saie 45 .531 7 name. they couldn't be sure if they had wrltter 46.505 91J. lt was not the first put-on staged by memos the magazine attributed to them 51 .48() 12 the 45-year-old Buckley, brother of New Printed under the title, "The Secre 53 ,454 14Y. ' York's conservative Sen . James Buckley. Papers They Didn't Publish," the mem 61 .358 23¥- In 1965 . William Buckley ran unsuccess oranda included dispatches attributed I( fully for mayor of New York, stringing former Secretary of State Dean Rusk together long and little-known words. but the C1A and others, relating to the Viet summing up by saying that If elected he nam war. Most were dated in the earll would "'demand a recount." )960 . Buckley founded the National Review Boorstin, now director of the Nationa in 1954 to furlher his political outlook , Museum o[ History and Technology ir which he de crlbed as radical con. erva· Wa hinglon, D.C., repudiated a 196: A casual stroller, perhaps heading hom., crossing th. Woolf Avenue bridgt I, out. live. memo which ational Review said hI Sunset Promenade lined again.' a cloudy evening sky. B.auly mingled wilh the ugliness of man's Referring to the secret document hoax , had prepared in cooperation with the great convenience - electricity. - Pholo by John Av.r'l Buckley said: "The Jdea arose at an Committee of Historians and Cultura editorial meeting two week ago yester· Anthropologi ts. day . We were discussing the Pentagon Cuntacted at his home In Washington CUE's Plans and Promises for 172- papers as relea d and the fact tbat they Boorstin said: "1 can tell you I did no l were ideologically tedentiou . write that document. I have never hearc Buckley said tha while he initiated of thai committee." tht' idea , he had a hand in compoSing the The National Review had said 111 the false documents, but wouldn 't say who i' ue that it obtained the documenu Pugsley: Groups Cost H Bread on the magazine 's staff wrote what. from an unnamed source who madE "We mentioned a lot of people we did them available "in protest against what Thi& ie the ~ecolld 0/ a tllrce part age and it's inexpensive and not forced ment demanded it to protect the bask· Fieldhouse from now on . not have to mention ," Buckley said. "In the informant held to be distorted im· series explaining CUE and it's role on on you at the last minute . It's adver etball court from Cigarette burns. They HELLAND: What was the admini tra· that sense. we invited discovery. We pression conveyed by the documeSltf tised as a package. That's a different wouldn 't have been surprised if within published in the New York Times," , l/te Uf campus. Part three tomorrow. had to replace lhe court after the Grand tions reaction to the Dead concert with story. Funk concert. That cost something like the Ripple bottles and the roaches and two hours after It appeared it had been reference to the Pentagon papers. HELLAND: How much is a group? Then the groups have insane, no, in $30,000. CUE lost a lot of money on the chairs being moved out? PUGSLEY: Well the cost of a concert, I ane stipulations in the contracts. Like Laura Nyro. That, in my opinion was PUGSLEY: They were disturbed by guess that's what we are talking about. Grand Funk wanted to be picked up due to poor planning. Nyro is very tal· that whole thing. They were worried Right now we can book Leon Russell in a limousine. They got a truck and ented but she doesn't have the draw· about nymg bottles. 1 don't know what PAT Gets O'rientation Space and Jackie Lomax In a package deal wouldn 't get into it. CUE had to send ing capability that would warrent put to say. J've never been to a concert for $10,000 against a percentage. We a sedan. It's asinine stipulations like ting her into the Fieldhouse. Somewhere where oomeone wa hurt in a Rippte bot· By STEVE BAKER tive" to a Unlverslty orientation th~ can book the Jefferson Airplane for $20,· that that hassle you. They're not called in the Union would have been bettcr. tle fighl. I don't think that it is legiti Daily towan R.porter PAT and New University ConferenCE (NUC) leaflets are. 000 against 60 per cent of the gate. for, they demand it because they want She could only fill 4,000 or 5,000 out of mate to call off a concert for 8,000 The Protective Association of Tell· James Taylor and Sly are closer to $25 ,- to be super .Lars. 13,000 seats. when a couple of people, if anyone, is ants (PAT) reopened its information Six tudents had pa ed out tho t 000. So Is Three Dog Night. The cost HE LLAND : Who controls the concert HELLAND: Can the Athletic Depart tossing bottles. The administration has table at summer orientation Wednes "unauthorized" leanets after Monday's 01 a Grand Funk or an Airplane concert dales? ment take away a date if they don ·t been o[ficially quiet ; they feel thal they day, brin!!ing immediate criticism from orientation, and a plea for an anil·ROTC would be about $23,000. It would be a PUGSLEY: The Athl~ie Department like who you booked, like another Dead have a respon ible administrator in some Univer Ity officials who claimed NUC table was rejected by the commit· moderate price Cor like the Dead or controls the Fieldhouse. "bey let us concert? Wockenruss to handle concerts and that the group's literature still wasn't "con tee Tuesday. Leon Russell. know last spring what dates we would PUGSLEY: They've ne\er done it be· CUE can handle problems. structive." "You 've got to be po IUve, they say , HELLAND: A lot of perCormers are get for the upcoming scbool year. We fore . 1 don't know if they'd ever threat HELLAND: How safe are concerts, "I don 't think they Jived up to the but they don't want to admit that any putting a limit on their incomes fo r tax get six dates. en it. I know that hearsay has it that safer than driving a car? spirit of the orientation committee," difference of opinion should exist here," reasons. Like a group could do 50 shows HELLAND: Why only six? they are going to be a tittle more par· PUGSLEY: A lot safer than tlliking to Director of Admissions Robert D. Leahy Cain said. "They prefer to hide the but they only book 35 because of the PUGSLEY: 1 asked about that last fall ticu lar about what groups play in the a county sherif! on a spring night.