.s..;( ::: ?_ .:_ :.:~:--=: ~ ~~- - . : _ - = ,...- .:- .. -::"' -.· e_.• ... _ _ -=·- = ~ - ::, - , .r - . ,. - - ... - - --.· -- .. a. . .... - . REACTION FOLLOW CAPITOL HILL First reaction to the Pr eside nt's remark s --c'r-ei~~mixeap 1 1 ~ Republicans generally "pro"--D emocrats "con." illlt House and Senate concertatives of both parties--quickly attacking the President's e conomic pr o gram; calling it "ruinous"--"a ~~- surrende~ l;-in effect a blue print for federal bankruptcy. ltil irtH:«t I R'9 The acting chairman of the House ways and means committee, Al Ullman -- .118'1 sayfM he plans to split the president's package into seperate"parcels;" and consider each one--individually. 11-lman adding that "the immediate urgency--is to get a tax relief bill passed at the earliest possible moment." PRICES Th2 U. S. whol - sale price index- -down sharply l ast month for the first time in more than a year; a drop of a full half-a-percent--which seems li ke a lot; except that the wholesale price index--is an extremely volatile figure· --i4 hard and a decline such as this--w•■ to figure. If the trend continues though, " it could mean that spiraling inflation--has finally been licked . MOSCOW Western diplomat in Moscow w re sai d to be shocked today--at Soviet rejection of the newly-passed u. s . trade bill. Th Soviet action seen as a scuttling of two years o f delicate neg o tiations--aimed at making trade ~ the corne~ of aetente. At least one observer saying: "this takes us back / ~ to nineteen seventy-two." Adding: "All is not lost--but it looks as if we . - - .. ""l going~have to start again from square one." ~ 7 fll HOUSE Two veteran house convnittee chairmen have apparently lost their jobs-- in the historic power struggle now under way in Congress. Democratic leaders refusing today to nominate Wayne Hayes of Ohio--as chair~an of the House Administration Committee; e lse, refusing to renominate Wright Patman, of Texas, the Dean of the Senate--as chairman of the House Banking Committee. The Democrats picking instead Frank Thompson of New Jersey--for Administration; and Henry Re s of Wisconsin--for banking. dila; all this ffill subject, of course, to a vote by the i■m Democratic Caucus--when it meets ~ tomorrow. S£NATE CIA d i re c tor N i 1 l' a m Colb y --d witnes s t o y bef o r _ the Senate Aporopriations Committee~m ~ t ~ that in nineteen sixty-seven th& CIA ,f established a counter intelligence off ice--"to look into the possibility of foreign links to American dissident el e ments . dd- Addin~"in the course of this program--files were established on about ten thousand citizens." ..... J Colby •u.e,alt> l i e • ~ the CIA's actions were perfectly legal. Also A indicating they may have helped to thwart a plot--to kill former riaa Vice-President Spiro Agn ew and kidnap former CIA director Richard Helms. LOS ANGELES At Los Angeles--John Dean on Richard Nixon. The former White House council , --saying the former President ''has suffered a great deal. 11 Adding he doesn't "think anyone in this country --wants to see Richard Nixon :m ~ - 'J ~ --he ' s been punished enough . " ,< Dean also saying in the perspective of history--when the full story is known--the fonner President "may be vindicated in a way . " Further noting there were "strokes of greatness"--in many of the things the former President did; especially--in foreign JX>licy . L O N OO N The Br i t is h Roy al F am i l ~ ' s s e v ere st critic--Labor Membe r of Par lam e nt Willi e Hami l t o n?'who now co nt i nu e s h is vendetta ~• i n a n e w b o ok called "My Queen and I ." Hami l t o n obse rv i ng at one po int that Qu ee n Elizabeth and her family--remind him of the chi m panzees at th e Lond o n Zoo; exoe , t that 4. they A re less amus i ng--a~d ~ e e xpensive . In the end t hough, Hamilton vi t . l l v id mitting- -that h i s is a lost cause . "Th e Briti s h Monarchy"--he writes--"has not mearly survived while other s in the w o r l w er , _ toppling--but h a :; tt l. · p , l l>ib y g r wn in esteem and affection."