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_ > WMI * Nixon By Walter R. Mears ! AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON ? So Richar l Nixon has come and gone aj Big deal. ! It's hard to see what all the was about. j A dinner at the White House not rehabilitate a discn politician. In Peking, perhaps, ! reappearance of a purged lead* an affair of state can sign; return to power. But Washington is not PeV Nixon purged himself rather 1 face impeachment over Waterg and his return to the White Hi was no more than a diversion. Dennis' co I sVirm lrl m K^xiV UL1VA L j sale of hi I i * I I gamecock Founded 1900 AAark J. Lundgren Editor in Chief | Don Fobes Copy Desk Chief I Tftm Trawi* ov.a News Editor I David Baker Entertainment Editor I Brett Friedlander Sports Editor ft Dave Roback Graphics Editor Barbara Mathews Wire Editor IH Jim Phillips Editorial Page Editor fi|| Leigh Grogan Assistant News Editor |||| Lehman Stiles. Assistant Entertainment Ed. Mike Chlbbaro .... Assistant Sports Editor Janice Wood Graduate Assistant Jilt Griffin Advertising Manager H Fran George Production Manager ragj Jon Clemmensen General Manager SamMcKee Business Manager B' Mark Ethrldge Jr Adviser ! y . ... moim iai COfl- J talned herein may not be reprinted without the permission of the editor. Opinions expressed in the Gamecock are ^H| those, If signed, of the writer and, If unsigned, of the senior editorial staff. y Ui vv 11 ICtU There was a political ration for President Carter's invitatior Nixon to attend the state dim dM. honoring China's Deng Xiaoping *ain. Democrat Carter now I completed the process Republic fuss Nixon began. Carter now fa< Pnncfrpccinnol l- - ..D> v^juiunui ciiiiClblll DCCBl does the agreement that extend iced diplomatic recognition to Chi , the offers no guarantee of the futi 2r at safety of Taiwan. al a Under the circumstances, Nix served as a handy reminder :ing. angry conservatives that it was; than all Carter's idea. [ate, "One of the major achievemei 3use of President Nixon was to open an avenue of communications ai The should expens garmei The j j j landfoi nstituents sesa Now, . tract ol IGStlOIl senator Funn; _ _ _ _ A position ? < Finance is land 'tr, possibly will im] Corner, We w( anythini cerned. Fipnni complet that "e^ JOE COLLEGE HEARS I THE FIRE ALARH... Rl 1777 irns to Whi ale consultation and negotiation with 1 to the Chinese which resulted ner ultimately in normal relation{. ships," Carter said in defending the icis invitation to Nixon. lan He said the invitation was purely :es social. It was more than that, but lse still hardly worthy of all the words led of protest that have been spilled na over it. ire Besides, the Chinese had said Deng would like to see Nixon. Deng on has twice fallen from power, so he to wasn't around for either of Nixon's i n't visits to China, the breakthrough t mission in 1972 or the return in 1976, < its after he had resigned the White ] up House. i nd So they met Wednesday for j Santee Cooper utility company them, feel like the housewife who buys an ive coat only to find the same well it selling for half price the next day. so how utility recently purchased some c?*n r a new office complex ? from state sactior - Rembert Dennis, D-Berkeley, and utility .hers. state g the utility could have purchased a 4t.Ca." ? land the same size as that owned inside inis for half the price it paid the positioi markel y thing is that Dennis, in his we i i as chairman of the Senate not on 3 CommiHwi *o 1 v^, jlo v.wnaiucreu one oi siaerir t powerful men in this sta te. Dennis he reason the utility gave for the xihe^ r over-priced purchase is that it }10wev( prove the appearance of Moncks where the land is. Resp jnder if the purchase will improve goveri g else as far as the utility is con- aemoci in the i s said Friday that the sale was ' 'a his con al * 7 nlnnn * ?" ? 1" ** v.ij ^ican u-aiisacuon," and added They /en if we had given the land to do so. AND GETS OUT OF I fT~ THE. WADE HAKPTON \ ite House nearly an hour. It was all very low n key, and there was no word on the topic of their discussion. Had the Chinese done it the other way and gone to see Nixon in San Clemente, the meeting would have concentrated a lot more attention 41 on me resigned president than he got as a bit player in Deng's round of Washington conferences and social affairs. None of it really changed a thing. Ironically, it probably won't do much to change conservative attitudes about the new China policy, either. The complaints about the ack of guarantees for Taiwan are lot going to diminish because Vixon came to dinner. there would be questions. I welcome ins " , senator, we love to ask questions, about answering a few of these: you honestly say that this tran1 will not affect your thinking if the involved wants something from overnment? you deny that you did not have an ; track" to the sale because of your ti, thereby denying a free and open t? are not charging that the sale was the up and up. In fact, when conig the long years of faithful service ; has given to South Carolina, we tend to think everything is in order, vhole situation smells a little, sr. *i i - onsioiiity and accountability in iment are cornerstones of racy. Sen. Dennis, despite his years statehouse, may nave to answer to stituents on this count. should feel it their duty and right to HE']