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Thursday, Mcty 20, 1976 . -,,

f'HE MICHIGAN DAILY

Page Three

Senate OK'S watchdog pane
WASHINGTON UP) - The Senate yesterday over-
whielmingly approved creation of a permanent commit-
tee designed to monitor and control the activities of
the ClA, FBI and other American spy agencies. C A F I w l ln n ~ o f~
A resolution creating the 15-member Senate panel
was approved by a 72 to 22 vote after an amendment the new oversight committee of any legislative or The resolution would give the oversight panel e-
stripping many of its powers was defeated by a two- budgetary authority over Pentagon intelligence activi- clusive budgetary and legislative authority over the
to-one margin, ties. CIA and shared responsibility with other Senate com-
PASSAGE OF THE resolution marked the first leg- Stennis argued that military intelligence agencies mittees over the intelligence activities of the FBIt,
islation to result from the Senate Select Intelligence "just were not in on" the abuses documented by the INA, NSA and the State Department.
Committee's 15-month investigation of spy agencies. select committee.
Sen. Walter Mondale (D-Minn.) called the Senate The senator acknowledged, however, that the Army AT LEAST TWO MEMBERS from each of the four
vote, "historic," while Government Operations Chair- "got a little over the line" in its surveillance of anti- Senate committees which currently monitor intel11-
man Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) noted that the first war groups in the late 160s. gence activities would sit on the new oversight panel,
resolution to create an intelligence oversight was in- The resolution urges the White House to give the
troduced 20 years ago by Majority leader Mike Mans- A RECENTLY RELEASED committee staff report oversight panel advance notice of any major new in-
field. said the Army amassed files on an estimated 100,000 telligence operations.
Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis citizens. Other reports have detailed NSA's massive The panel would not have the power to veto any
m-Miss.) failed by a vote of 63 to 31 to persuade the interception of international communications. proposed spy activities but could vote to reveal pub-
senate to let his Panel retain its exclusive jarisdic- Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.), another member of the licly anv intelligence oneration it disannroa I. The
tion over the National Security Agency (NSA), the Armed Services panel who opposes the new oversight President wvo-'ld be able to annuI the disclosure
Defense Intelligence Agency (DtA) and otherDefense committee, contended that the abuses disclosed by the to the full Senate, which could either annrove or dis-
Den. rtment spy agencies. select committee were "the exception rather than the approve it or send it back to the oversight committee
THE STENNIS AMENDMENT would have stripped rale." for a final decision.

School of Ed. cuts
stir minority fears

By GEORGE LOBSENZ
f dget cuts in the School of Education
tha threaten to shut down that unit's
Office of Minority Student Affairs (OM-
S.A have promped concern among the
,chaat': minority community.
In a memo dated April 30, Associate
E .1cataon Dean Frederick Bertolaet in-
(o:ned OMSA that he and Education
'ean Wilbur Cohen were not in a posi-
tin to commit funds for the upcoming
mamer half-term, nor for the 1976-1977
OMSA DIRECTOR Jesse Dungy ex-
_r-c ed apprehension over the possibility
of discontinuation: "This office serves as
iapstssrtive element for all minorities in
the School of Education," he said. "The
siitg of this office would remove any
sliciat administrative base that minori-
tlsdents would have in terms of
tvj'esentation. '
\mando Rivas, Associate Director of
1SA reiterated Dungy's view saying
I /
Rolling stoned
Bpritish police have arrested Keith
Itichard, lead guitarist for the Rolling
Stones on suspicion of being in posses-
sion of drugs. Richard was busted yes-
terday following a minor auto accident
about 50 miles northwest of London. He
was later released on $92.50 bond. A
police spokesperson said, "We will not
know if there will be any charges un-
ti' laboratory tests have been carried
tAt and the substances found in the car
ide-ified."
Happenings...
. begin at 7:30 with Maud Russel,
an expert on China, speaking on "China:
Compare the old and new," in the Union
assembly Hall.
Weather or not
It will be warmer with increasing
eloudiness. Temperatures will be near:
70 and lows in the mid 40's. Chance
of rain tonight is 30 per cent.

that OMSA served as an "emotional
base" for the school's minorities by of-
fering academic and personal guidance
as well as functioning as a social and
cultural focal point.
"There is a definite and demonstrated
need for these kinds of services," Rivas
added.
COHEN SAID that a statement will be
released in three to six weeks, noting
that, at present, the "total effect" of
the budget cuts has not yet been ascer-
ained.
Also in response to the Bertolaet
memorandum, the Minority Coalition, a
group of minority graduate students,
has been circulating petitions opposing
the abolition or reduction of OMSA.
In addition, the Coalition has dis-
seminated a number of harshly worded
flters terming the Bertolaet memoran-
duo as "simoply the latest measure of
the University to further reduce its
meager support of minority students."
ACCORDING TO Dungy and members
of the Minority Coalition, closing down
OMSA would save little money for the
school while depriving minority students
of needed support.
"With the small amount of budgetary
expense this office incurs," Dungy ex-
plained, "it doesn't seem necessary-
even with the budget cuts-to close down
the office."
Cohen, referring to the possible dis-
continuation of OMSA, said, "We have
advised that office as well as several
others of the impending budget cuts.
"I'VE ALWAYS tried to advise people
of the cuts so they won't assume they're
going to get something which we may not
be able to give them," he added.
Bertolaet was unavailable for com-
ment.
Minority Coalition member Luke Tripp
echoed Dungy's sentiments, questioning
the effectiveness of terminating funds
for OMSA to accommodate the budget
ctacks,
TRIPP ASSERTED that in terms of
salary, the staff of OMSA received only
the equivalent of one half of a graduate
teaching assistantship, along with a
secretary. He estimated the total cost
of maintaining the office was less than
$10,000.
"He (Cohen) is supposedly tryinfg to
economize," Tripp asserted, "but closing .
down the office would hardly save any-
thing-it's just a showcase for what be's
working with."

Idyllic power plant
ANGOLAN BORDER STRENGTHENED:
S. Africa creates free-fire zone

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ( -
South Africa announced yesterday it will
create a 1,000-mile-long no man's land
along the border of Angola in an effort
to stem escalating raids by black na-
tionalist guerrillas into disputed South-
West Africa.
The government also announced
sweeping measures giving authorities
powers to evacuate villagers from "pro-
hibited areas," order curfews, conduct
searches, restrict travel and arrest ter-
rorists.
The announcements marked a sharp
intensification of the struggle with guer-
rillas of the South-West People's Organ-
ization-SWAPO. They followed reports
of a daylight SWAPO raid Tuesday in
which the guerrillas publicly executed a
70-year-old black villager.

SWAPO guerrillas have been waging
a sporadic hit-and-run campaign for the
past decade to wrest South-West Africa
- known among black Africans and in
the United Nations as Namibia - from
South Africa. The mineral-rich terri-
tory is administered by South Africa
under a League of Nations mandate re-
jected by the United Nations.
The South African announcement said
the no man's land between Angola and
South-West Africa would be a half-mile
wide.
The plan, under discussion by South
African authorities for the past several
months, amounts to the creation of what
U. S. troops in Vienam called a free-fire
zone acting as a barrier to guerrias
infiltration.

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