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.