8 U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER
FEBRUARY 1988
8 U THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER FEBRUARY 1988
Woodward reveals more of Casey's knowledge
By David Burke
University Leader
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We have all heard that in Bob Wood- ar THe G3Te...SaYS He Has
ward's book Veil: The Secret Wars of the - a Few MORe QUeSTioNS To
CIA, the late Central Intelligence Agen- 25K YOU fQFORE He wiaps
cy Director William Casey said he knew uP H is BooK...
all about the Iran-Contra funds diver-
sion.
Veteran Watergate reporter Wood-
ward asked Casey if he knew about the
diversion.
He did.
But how did he know?
According to Woodward, Casey simp-
ly said, "I believed" before he nodded off
to sleep.
Remember, he was in Reagan's Casey
cabinet.
However, knowledge of the diversion
wasn't all the former CIA director knew.
In a sequel to Veil, Woodward's up-
coming book, One-Thousand-and-One
Things Bill Casey Knew and Didn't Tell
You, he reveals many of the other things
Casey never told us.
In the book, due later this year, Casey
discloses facts that only he knew, in-
cluding: CoNtlZA
The complete lyrics to "Louie, Louie." with The Elephant Man's body. And The secret CIA vault containing socks Brady Bunch."
The seven-herbs-and-spices in Ken- why Michael looks more like his sister lost in laundromats throughout the The American Top 40,
tucky Fried Chicken. Janet than she does. eastern seaboard. down every week, from N
, q What Mister Rogers keeps in his That through a mysterious time- through to No. 1 (Oops,M
All of the "Final Jeopardy!' questions sweater pockets. space travel system, John F. Kennedy, The reason hospital go
since 1973. That there were words to the theme Robert Kennedy, Franklin Delano three feet wide in the bat
The plots for the next 10 years of song of "Hawaii Five-0." Roosevelt and Winston Churchill stole Yes, with all that W
"Days of Our Lives." How many licks it takes to get to the their speeches from Joseph Biden. knew, he could have writ
What Michael Jackson wanted to do center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop. , The whereabouts of the cast of "The And Bob Woodward alr
, countin' 'em
o. 40, right on
wrong Casey.) 4
wns are open
k.
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ten a book.
ready did.
Changing the face of currency is a high-dollar idea
By Ed Schubert back of the $2 bill, let's crop thatpic- Joseph's incomparable plea for
State Press ture of the signing of the Declaration democracy:
Arizona State U. of Independence to make room for "Treat all men alike. Give them all
some of it's words: "We hold these the same law. Give them all an even
Next time you cash your paycheck, truths to be self evident...." chance to live and grow. All men
take a close look at the various bills People like to read what's printed were made by the same Great Spirit
the teller hands you. Look at the on currency. Why not use money to Chief. They are all brothers. The
faces on the currency: Grant, Jack- transmit some of the most eloquent earth is the mother of all people, and
son, Hamilton. So? statements of our democratic princi- all people should have equal rights
Well, we pretty much accept the ples? upon it...Let me be a free man-free
fact that there exists within our cul- The same with the $5 bill: Keep to travel, free to stop, free to work,
ture certain vestigial traits of the Abe on the front, but on the back free to trade.free to choose my own
bad old days when white males- have, perhaps, an artist's repre- teachers, free to follow the religion of
especially white Anglo-SaxonProtes- sentation of the Gettysburg battle- my fathers, free to think and talk ana
tant males-lorded it over everyone field the day after it was all over, act for myself-and ITwill obey every
else; and blacks, Hispanics, women with the words of the Gettysburg law, or submit to the penalty."
and others suffered varying degrees Address printed above. (The print " For the $50 bill, I would like to see
of discrimination, persecution and would have to be pretty small, but I Albert Einstein. He certainly sym-
worse. think people could squint.) bolizesajust how much an immigrant
With all due respect to Washing- " For the $10 bill: Martin Luther can achieve in a nation where pat-
ton, Franklin, et al., it seems that the King, Jr. On the back: The Lincoln riotism is not based on blood but on
fact that all the national heroes on Memorial-but from a distance, and shared democratic and egalitarian
Racket
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seconds before you are politely urged to
produce your college diploma.
Many of my friends relish the
academic experience offered by George-
town. But there are others on campus
for whom the four years here amount to
little more than a financial shakedown.
American universities make no distinc-
tion between the two groups, to the de-
triment of both.
In a better world, I would never haves
set foot on a college campus. That would
be reserved for those who value the
academic life or others who desire the
benefit of a "formal" education. And, all
of us entering the employment market-
place would be judged by what we know,
not how we learned it.
In order for that to come about, col-
leges should give up what they never
should have taken on in the first place 4
the task of certifying one's fitness to
work. Their strong suit is teaching and
learning, not issuing degrees in every-
thing from nursing to corporate raiding.
If universities stopped handing out
pretty little diplomas, the burden of
selecting qualified employees would fall
on companies and institutions, some of
which would specialize in that task.
There would be no requirements, no
majors. You could pay for as man4
courses as you want and could start
looking for a job as soon as you feel
ready. Such a nice dream.
In the decade of declining enroll-
ments, universities are unlikely to
allow anyone to slip through their fin-
gers without paying the full fee. This is
why they resemble a bunch of New
Jersey mob enforcers, patiently ex-
plaining to yet another bar owner th
benefits of paying tuition...or...protec
tion money. Such a nice racket.
age, enterprise and vision? For the But who: Cochise? Sitting Bull?
back of the bill, a famous photograph Sequoyah? Crazy Horse?
comes to mind: Earhart's Lockheed I nominate Sacajawe a, the
Electra'soaring above the Golden Shoshoni woman who guided Lewis
Gate Bridge. and Clark across the continent, as a
r For the $2 and $5 bills, I couldn't symbol ofthe infancy ofthe Republic.
bear to part with Thomas Jefferson And for the back, an unspoiled land-
and Abraham Lincoln. But on the scape to use as a backdrop for Chief