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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Wednesday, January 22, 19715
MORE WATERGATE WOES
Colson says Hunt gave info to CIA
WASHINGTON 0P) - Former
White House counsel Charles
Colson has said that convicted
Watergate conspirator Howard
Hunt frequently passed infor-
mation to the Central Intelli-
gence Agency after the time the
agency says it severed its re-
lations with Hunt, two sources
said last night.
Colson told Sens. Howard
Baker (R-Tenn) and Lowell
Weicker (R-Conn.) that Hunt de-
livered sealed envelopes and
packages to Richard Ober, a
CIA counterintelligence officer,
who forwarded them to then
CIA Director Richard Helms,
the sources said.
COLSON said he suspected
that the envelopes contained
tapes and other material relat-
ing to operations of the White
House plumbers unit, the sourc-
es said.
Both sources stressed that the
two senators, both of whom
served on the Senate Watergate
committee, had obtained no in-
dependent confirmation whatso-
ever of Colson's assertions.
Spokespersons for the two
senators confirmed last night
that they had met with Colson
on Monday at their request.
Colson was brought from Ft.
Holabird, Md., to the federal
,courthouse in Alexandria, Va.,
for the meeting.
COLSON is serving one to
three years in prison after
pleading guilty to one count of
obstruction of justice for at-
tempting to defame Pentagon
Papers defendant Daniel Ells-
berg.
Colson said Hunt continued to.
pass the material to Ober until
late May.1972. The CIA has
said it stopped providing Hunt
aid for his projects on the
plumbers unit on Aug. 27, 1971.
However, it has acknowledg-
ed providing a psychological as-
sessment of Ellsberg as late as
November 1971, but the agency
maintained it was unaware of
Hunt's role in requesting the
profile.
IN LATE May 1972. a group
under Hunt's supervision enter-
ed the Democratic National
Committee headquarters to.in-
stall bugging devices.
The June 17, 1972, break-in
was prompted in part by the
malfunction of one of those de-
vices.
Ober has been named by the
New York Times as manager
of a massive, illegal domestic
spying operation undertaken by
CIA during the Nixon adminis-
tration.
CIA Director William Colby
has said a unit was established
in the agency's counterintelli-
gence division to monitor do-
mestic radicals in that period.
Dems stand by
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ting through the Congress now.
"I don't think the votes are
here in the Congress at the
present time to pass .a ration-
ing bill, but I think there's aI
growing feeling for rationing,''
Mansfield said.
SEN. HENRY Jackson (D-
Wash.), a frequent critic of
Ford's energy program, said
there are other solutions to the
energy -crisis besides gas ra-
tioning and Ford's plan to im-
pose tariffs on imported crude
oil.
Jackson said Ford's reference
to mandatory gas rationing is
"a straw man. No one up here
that I know is advocating man-
datory gas rationing," he said.
Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.),
chairman of the Republican
Policy Committee, indicated a
planned attempt by Jackson
and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-
Mass.) to force a delay in the
oil import tariff might face a
filibuster in the Senate.
"IT MIGHT be debated a
long time," Tower said. During
the news conference, Ford said
he would sign the presidential
proclamation imposing the tariff
this week.
Echoing Ford,. Tower said
ioning
gasoline rationing "is exactly
the wrong way to go. Itsub-
stitutes government controls for
the market."
Senate Democratic Whip Rob-
ert Byrd of West Virginia said,
"I think the proposal to levy
a $3 tariff on oil imports is a
prescription for economic dis-
aster in that it will push up the
price of gasoline, home heating
fuel, bus fares, airline fares,
fertilizer and other items."
FAR FROM reducing gasoline
consumption, Byrd said, the
tariff "will initiate a new spiral
of inflation . .."
Like Jackson, Byrd suggested
there might be some middle
ground between rationing and
the tariff.
AP Photo
PRESIDENT FORD answers questions raised by reporters at a press conference yesterday. Although Ford presented a
direct challenge to opposition Democrats, he claimed his programs, if adopted by Congress, would cure the country's eco-
nomc woes by late summer.
Ford rejects gas rationing plan
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(Continued from Page 1) Earlier yesterday, the Labor
proposed permanent tax cuts Department reported that the
to compensate Americans for cost of living rose 12.2 per cent
higher oil prices as his program last year, the worst year for
achieveed the hoped-for result price increases since 1946. f
of cutting oil imports by one Ford said that opponents of
million barrels a day by the end his program had no clear un-
of this year and making the derstanding of rationing or of
United States invulnerable to what it would mean for the
oil embargoes by 1985l American people.
Rationing would have to last
HE ALSO urged Congress to more than five years, it would
approve a 12 per cent rebate hurt farmers who needed to
on 1974 tax payments, with a harvest crops and people driv-
maximum of $1,000 a person, ing a long way to work, and it
as an anti-recession measure, would not provide any stimulus3
for increasing domestic petro-
leum supplies and encouraging
the development of energy re-
sources.
MAKING IT clear he did not
intend to budge, in spite of
pressure from the Democrats,
he declared, "We will not sit
by and, talk about the energyj
crisis and not do anything
about it.
much worse condition."
On other issues, Ford said:
-The United States must
continue to supply arms to the
Middle East, in spite of a dan-
ger of renewed war there, to
maintain a military balance
while peace efforts are under
way.
-Detente between the United
"I believe it is the right med- States and the Soviet Union
icine for our current 'illness," would continue despite Mos-
the President said in reference ! cow's cancellation of an im-
to his energy program and pro- portant trade treaty because
posed anti-recession tax cuts. of what Russia felt was Con-
"If we had done nothing, the gressional interference in its
patient would have been in emigration policies.
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Ford announced he will sign
a proclamation later this week!
putting into effect his contro-
versial plan to impose an addi-
tional fee on imported oil, be-
ginning with one dollar a barrel
on February 3, and raising that
to three dollars a barrel on
April d.
T4e wx~nt ihao,4 with i rl n'
GEO mediation collapses,
parties call in fact-finder
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despite the introduction yester-{ (Co"ti""ed fomPage1>
day by Democratic Senators proposed that a fact-finder be
Henry Jackson and Edward ' called in.
Kennedy of a resolution calling The union claims that fact-
for a mandatory 60-day delay finding, since it is not binding
in imposing the new tariffs, on either party, is an ineffec-
tive way of resolving the prob-
THE PRESIDENT'S critics lem, and acquiesced only be-
claim his plan would hurt poor cause the University has re-
Americans and would result in fused to agree to binding arbi-
a new and severe round of in- tration.
flation for the e m b a t t I e d "Although fact - finding w iIlI
economy. oc-cur," said Gordon, "we don't
feel that's a very constructive
step to take. We really feel that
what the University is trying to
CHECK US OUT do is stall. It's to their advant-J
, age to drag out the negotiations
WAe have a good until the end of the academic
R~ ~year. By that time most of usi
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mepuaTlon
UM STYLISTS
at the UNION
will have completed our job
service. We are willing to
make the fact-finding binding.
They're noat."
LEMMER held that fact-find-
ing resolves most contract dis-
putes, and that binding arbi- 31, 1974, or have it cAncelled.
tration is only a last resort. Consequently, with the addi-
"The Employment Relations tional four per cent hike the
Act provides for fact-finding," University's offer now stands
he said. "That's the prescribed at 12 per cent.
procedure. It's the same law GORDON objected to the Uni-
that takes them (GEO) to the versity's position. "We've fallen
bargaining table in the first back significantly," he said.
place. There's no advantage for "We feel that this (the GEO)
either party to bind themselves ' demand can very reasonably be
in advance to somebody else's met by the University. With our
view of what you should have present package, we can barely
in a labor contract." keep up with inflation."
During the meeting yesterday, As the bargaining moves into
both sides made concessions on these final stages and the GEO
economic issues. January 30 contract deadline
THE NEW GEO proposal calls approaches, the possibility of a
for an eight per cent wage in- strike 1 o o m s large. Though
crease retroactive to Septem- Michigan law prohibits state
ber, 1974; an additional five per, employes to strike, Gordon in-
cent increase effective January, dic'ated that such action is a
1975, and a seven per cent in- definite possibility.
crease for the 1975-76 academic* "We really hope it's not go-
year. The union also proposed!' ing to come to a strike, but the
a $200 per term fee in lieu of prospects for that are becom-
tuition. ing bleaker," he said. "If we
The University, making its do have to strike, it will be to
first economic concession since put pressure on. the University
October, proposed a four per to go to binding arbitration."
cent increase over what it has Though Gordon would only say
already offered, or the raise that the union has been gain-
given to the faculty, whichever ing strength in certain key de-
is higher. They also proposed' partments, other sources claim-
to freeze the tuition level of all ed GEO has now mustered the
Graduate Student Assistants strength to shut down most of
(GSAs) who have more than a LSA, including the English,
ten-hour teaching load. mathematics, a n d Romance
The University also withdrew language departments.
its ultimatum that the union When asked about the possi-
accept its offer of an eight per I bilities of a strike, Lemmer re-
cent pay raise by December1sponded, "I have no idea."
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Probably not.All things considered you do
what you do pretty doggone well. After all, no one
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But...
But have you ever considered what doing your
job just a little better might mean?
Money. Cold hard coin of the realm.
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for all of us:Savings of much of the cash and frayed
nerves it's costing us now for repairs and inefficiency.
Point two..By taking more pride in our work
we'll more than likely see America regaining its
strength in the competitive world trade arena. When
the balanceof payments swings our way again we'll
all be better off economically.
So you see-the only person who can really
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