B. B. sr t tggan tun Eighty-three years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan King has got the blues like nobody else 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 News Phone: 764-0552 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1973 Nixon: Investigating himself By JOAN BORUS After 26 years, B.B. King re- mains the master of the blues. Opening his concert at Hill Audi- torium last Friday with his theme song, "Every Day I Have the Blues," King proceeded to capti- vate the audience with what he has played and known all his life - the blues. Seeing and hearing King is to experience a living personification of the blues, the successful merg- ing of the man and his art. King is totally involved with his art; his rich, soulful voice fraught w i t h pain and anguish, ranging from al- most a sob to cocky defiance. Where his voice stops his guitar Lucilletakes over, throbbing with an intensity that renders it almost to the wailing of a human voice. Backstage King's personal in- volvement and warmth emerges as he relaxes with close friends. If he is one of the few remaining authentic blues musicians left, he to develop and perfect. Of them he says: "It makes me very proud; I feel like the great-great grandfather. It makes me very happy that somebody would think enough of me to want to play like me. Hopefully, I can inspire somebody else maybe not to play like me, but to inspire somebody else to be what they want to be. Doing what I'm doing might motivate them, at least I hope it does." King has created the same basic style, offering to newer younger audiences the opportunity to hear the type of music he has been playing ever since he started out. "I started like this 26 years ago," he told the audience last Friday, referring to, his four-piece band consisting of piano, baritone saxophone, rhythm guitar and drums. King relies chiefly on Lu- cille and his voice to convey the message of the blues. EVEN AS THE Congress took its first cautious steps toward the impeach- ment of Richard Nixon yesterday, the counterattack to save a crumbling ad- ministration had begun. Presidential lawyer Charles Wright's announcement that the Watergate tapes and some related papers would be turned over to Federal Judge John Sirica, con- stitutes an attempt to head off the mounting pressure for the President's re- moval from office. Wright portrays the President's latest move as an attempt to avert "a constitu- tional crisis" but to many it must seem more an effort to div.ert the nation's at- tention from the startling events of last weekend. r E ISSUE INVOLVED in the resigna- tion of Elliot Richardson, and the subsequent firing of William Ruckelshaus and Archibald Cox was not the Water- gate tapes themselves. What the Presi- dent did last week was quash a suppos- edly independent investigation of crimes committed by members of his own admin- istration and possibly himself. The re- lease of Nixon's coveted tapes does noth- ing to replace the deposed Cox investi- gation with a credible alternative. Assurances from Acting Attorney Gen- eral Robert Bork that the Justice De- partment will pursue the Watergate in- vestigation with "full vigor" ignore the pressing question of why an independent investigation has been eliminated. Nor can we take comfort in the fact that this new investigation will be head- ed by Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen. It was Petersen who led Jus- tice Department's pre-election probe of Watergate which amounted to little more than a cover-up. One wonders what will become of the evidence gathered by the Cox team now that it is in Petersen's hands. WVHILE THE ADMINISTRATION and its friends seek to portray Cox as a "Kennedy Democrat" out to get the President, it appears the special prosecu- tor was eliminated because his investiga- tion came too close to the President him- self. Surely no subsequent probe carried out by Nixon's Justice Department will commit the same mistake. While Nixon has given up the tapes he fought so long to retain, his elimination of the Cox investigation constitutes a blatant obstruction of justice. The President's actions have placed two issues on the Congressional agenda: the creation of an independent investiga- tive body to finish the work Cox began, and more importantly the continuation of efforts to impeach a President who would destroy justice for his own protection. concert halls: "Whether you're playing on a college campus or a club, you're still playing to peo- ple." He does feel, however, that play- ing on the college campus is im- portant. "I think playing the col- leges is very much needed be- cause education is the most im- portant thing that will make the world better in the future any- way," he says. "I feel that when I play the blues and play at a college, the students that are learning today will be able to tell people about this tomorrow. They may not dig it, but at least they'll know about it." In commenting about the pre- dominatly white audiences he en- counters at collegeconcerts, King remarks that it was not unusual. "When I first started young blacks didn't like me then - it was al- ways people my age and older. So there hasn't been too much change . onething though,awhites have never had to be ashamed of the blues anyway, but blacks have. "You see, they have felt that blues was something that was con- nected to times of slavery, and they don't want to be reminded of it, at least they didn't. Today they are beginning to realize thatwhat- ever was, was, and today is today." King thinks that festivals like the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Fes- tival also serve to perpetuate and teach people about the blues. "If you've got a good festival, a good musical festival - that's how I like to think about them, and you've got many performers there to perform and allow them that chance, somehow they seem to be able to introduce and com- municate with people if allowed to do so and usually this can be done at a festival. "I think they are good - it's the one place a family can go if they want to and I think there should be many more of them." --, I Daily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI B. B. kii ARTS 1' Training tomorrow's junta RECENT YEARS have seen a prolifera- tion of military regimes in Latin America. Last month's right wing coup in Chile is but an addition to the long list of governments, most of them far from progressive, toppled by military coups d'etat' The United States has historically not only tolerated but supported these im- posed military regimes. Our government's recognition of the Brazilian junta within 24 hours of its seizure of power in 1964, to cite one example, led many to believe there was direct U. S. complicity in the coup itself. But U. S. abettance of juntas and gen- erals is not just the policy of a particu- 'lar administration. Rather, it has be- come an institutionalized part of U. S. foreign policy. One major facet of this policy has been the U. S. Army School of the Americas, which since 1949 has graduated what has become the ruling military elites of Latin America. The school, located in the Panama Ca- nal Zone, has seen 29,000 officers come and go in its 24 years of existence. More than 170 of its graduates serve as cabi- net ministers, directors of intelligence, TODAY'S STAFF: News: Jack Krost, Steve Selbst, C h i p Sinclair, Charlie Stein, Ted Stein, Becky Warner Editorial Page: Marnie Heyn, Zach Schil- ler, Chuck Wilbur Arts Page: Diane Levick, Jeff Sorensen Photo Technician: John Upton M..i. aaaaaN\~\\a\N \aVt commanding generals, chiefs of staff and heads of governments. SHOULD IT THEN come as any sur- prise to find six of its alumni in the upper echelons of the Chilean military, which bloodily overthrew their elected government last month? This year the school is offering new courses in counterinsurgency tactics, par- ticularly in urban areas. But the school does more than train officers for the highly specialized activity of hunting down and eliminating leftist guerrillas; its courses include both combat and sup- port operations as well as industrial man- agement. All in all, the Army School of the Americas probably gives an excellent edu- cation. The leaders of tomorrow's juntas, we can trust, will be well-rounded indi- viduals. THE ALUMNI are apparently happy with the results. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Col. William Nairn, school comnandant, to say as he does that "We keep in touch with our graduates and they keep in touch with us." It would be mistaken to label the Army School of the Americas a primary instru- ment of U. S. foreign policy; it provides but one small part of the complex me- chanism that reaches into every corner of the globe. However, the school is representative, in a certain sense, of what has rightfully led many nations to label the United States as interventionist. For that reason, it should be eliminated. is also one of another vanishing breed, a gentleman. Tired but hospitable, he invites everyone to sit down, shaking hands with well-wishers and play- ing with two of his godchildren. Getting ready to take to the road for another concert destination, he asks for a clean shirt, s aying, 'You ladies don't .nind if I go to my waist, do you - I won t go no further." King's warmth belies the strug- gle and obscurity that preceeded his current success. 3orn in Ind- ianola, Mississippi, King operated out of Memphis, working as a disc jockey and played countless one- nighters on the so called "chitlin' circuit." It wasn't until 1966, however, that King achieved the status he deserved with his debut at the Fillmore West. Since that time he has played at colleges and rock festivals in the U.S. and Canada, as well as playing to capacity houses in Europe. Ironically King's "dciscvery" and recent success may be attri- buted to his countless imitators, the likes of Eric Clapton, J i m Hendrix and Johnny Winter who have made fortunes overnight of what has taken B.B. King years When asked if his playing style has been altered over the past 26 years as a result of changes in the type of exposure he has received, King replied, "I hope it hasn't changed simply because of differ- ent audiences, but I hope it has changed some, because I've prac- ticed hard, very hard. "They tell me that practice makes perfect, but I don't know if I agree with that becausewI'm still not perfect, but I have work- ed hard. So I hope I've changed some for the better." King views the blues as a univer- sal type of experience that forms the foundation for other musical forms. According to King, "the best jazz musicians are the best blues players. You take guys like Oscar Petersen, Jimmy Smith- they'll be able to play more blues 'than I ever will; that's because they know what they're doing." King maintains that this is applic- able to great spiritual singers and soul musicians as well - "It's one of those things that seems to be there for some reason." Nor does he feel that the blues have lost any of their meaning or authenticity as a result of its up- rooting from the bars and private clubs and wider exposure in the 'Showcase' series opens The University Players will of- fer its third annual Showcase Pro- ductions series starting tomorrow night with Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi which will play through Saturday evening. Mississippi is being direct- ed by Lawrence Harbison, a gradu- ate student in theater. It will be followed November 29 -December 1 with the Broadway hit And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Paul Zindel. Both pro- ductions will be presented at the ArenaTheater in the Frieze Build- ing. if you see news happen col 76-DAILY "DRABBLE" MOVES HOLLYWOOD) (UPI)-The cast and crew of "Drabble," starring Michael Caine, has completed filming location in London and moved to Paris for final scenes in the suspense drama. 6N OPEN DAILY AT 12:45 SHOWSAT 1 3 ,5 7, P.M. HELD OVER--3rd HIT WEEK DON'T MISS IT! Rated G -_-- . . -_ , "JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR U DIRECTOR'S NOTES King Richard's comet ALL YOU CAN C EAT Mounds of Spaghetti, Coleslaw, Garlic Bread EVERY WEDNESDAY 4:30-10 P.M. HURON HOTEL & LOUNGE 124 Peorl-483-1771-(Ypsi LEONARD BERSkN Is Coming To Town AM I N ST'RAT'I ON "SECURITl111"; -S W1104 HUNTEERS X CHIDL.M CH.ICAGO SEVEN 10 APM IN . aj H RRSBU G_____28____N" CAMPEN SEVENTEEN 30 AAiN 0 PR. SPOCK 49AIDMIN, 0 5eAT1'-Le E EMN A APIAN 0 ELSE~ 48 A MW4 0 By MARNIE HEYN SKY WATCHERS this fall will be treated to the most impressive celestial event in more than a century. And Shakespeare f a n s will be able to see a serialized version of King Lear, although Cor- deliathas been written out of the script and the Fool looks a lot like Dr. Strangelove. Comet Kohoutek is returning to the solar system after a cosmic sojourn of 10,000 years. Since com- ets are traditionally associated with the downfall of tyrants, poli- tical astrologers have an espec- ially potent reason for exhibiting high energy behavior. Picture the scene: a table at Del Rio's after a day of systema- tic ingestion of psychetropic sub- stances. And imagine the dialogue: "I wunner wha'sh gonna happen thish year." "Well, the millen- nium comet ish coming, an' may- be Congresh will shtart impeach- munk, impearts . . . uh, offing al' Dicky." THE SYNAPSES in my skull shorted out. What possibilities! This could mean the dawn of Aquarius and the dusk of K i n g Richard the Lock-Jawed. Political repercussions have already begun. Rumor has it that Nixon is at- tempting to fire NASA scientists responsible for sending special in- vestigative equipment with the third Skylab crew and the Mariner 10 mission, and that he wants to dismantle or make "inoperative" various rocket, balloon, airplane, and ground probes. He evidently feels that the Justice -Department is capable of conducting a "full and vigorous inquiry." When asked to comment on the impact of Comet Kohoutek on the President's horoscope, a grim-fac- ed White House press secretary responded, "What are you talking AT THAT TIME, Comet Kohou- tek will have moved from one of the horns of Capricorn (the goat) into the house of Aquarius (the waterbearer). That should stop the Old Goat from buting anything that moves, and make him once again a waterboy for the Whittier foatball team. In addition to heralding the death of one king or the birth of ano- ther, comets also promote crea- tive ferment and intensify psychic energy. Comet Kohoutek's parti- cular emphases are on personal integration and compassionate dia- logue. 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