Senate names WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Watergate committee yesterday said wiretapper E. Howard Hunt will be leadoff witness when televised hearings resume Monday. The panel also called John Ragan, a former FBI man and one-time Republican security • consultant, to testify about his part in attempting to wiretap the home of newspaper columnist Joseph Kraft. The only two other witnesses named were white House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan and former presidential law enforcement aide John J. Caulfield, who previously has admitted assisting in the Watergate cover-up. Missing from?thel witness list were political saboteur Donald H. Segretti, who has agreed to plead guilty to four election law "violations, and Charles W. Colson, who reportedly faces indictment in the Ellsberg break-in. The committee hopes it can hear from Segretti and former presidential counsel Colson despite their legal troubles. Revitalized group discusses organization Ritenouri advisory board meets By ED DINGED Collegian Staff Writer Student input into campus health care was the theme of last night's organizational meeting of the Student Advisory Board to ' University Health Services. Originally - established in May 1971, the board was replaced last October by the USG formed Ritenour Hearing Board. However, after much controversy over the hearings, it was dissolved by USG at the end of last Fall Term. The Student Advisory Board then was revitalized during the summer by University Health Educator Dr. J. Robert Wirag, with Ifull suppOrt of Dr. John A. Hargleroad, director of University Health Services. The Board was planned to be composed of 25 members, 18 representing student organizations and six at-large members. Due to the large number of applicants for the remaining six positions, Dr. Wirag announced his decision to enlarge the board to include anyone interested. "We're not going to hold it to six if 26 are interested," Wirag said. "We're not turning anyone away who's interested." Including student organization representatives, Dr. Wirag estimated 100 as the possible number of members. "It's not just a University health service " -gleroad Welcoming Watergate Committee Hunt as lead-off witness Ragin's name was a surprise. He had been mentioned only once before in Watergate testimony, when former presidential counsel John W. Dean 111 said Caufield told him Ragan helped tap Kraft's telephone - . Ragan, reached by telephone at his home in Massapequa, N. Y., denied tapping Kraft's phone and said he did not know why the committee was calling him. He aid he had conducted a "feasibility study" at Kraft's home in 1969, while working as security director forthe grepublican National Committee. But, he said, he did not know whose home it was at the time. "There was no tap," he said. One committee source said Ragan was believed to have been involved in the Secret Service's reported wiretapping of F: Donald Nixon, the President's brother. Ragan denied that also. Ragan's name was on an initial witness list released by Chairman Sam J.. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., at a news the role of the center to the University community. Ritenour is a health center, not a medical center, thus eliminating sophisticated diagnostic procedure, Hargleroad said. "Our primary interest is in keeping the student healthy enough so that he can take advantage of the educational benefits he has," he said. In relation to the board, Hargleroad said, "I want. them to determine what directions we will assign our priorities." The board should not be a rubber stamp committee, he added. John Onderko, representing the Graduate Student Association, reviewed the purposes initially conceived by the membirs of organizatiohal committee. They were: ' to provide students an opportunity for substantive and •procedural involvement in the policy and program of the Ritenour Health Center; —to improve the health center's services through regular and continual student evaluation and input; to aid in the dissemination of health related information to the students on the University Park Campus (when appropriate to• students on Commonwealth campuses) and conduct periodic surveys of student opinion regarding the health center; to improve the human interaction between the staff of University Health - students for whom cal Blueband drummer Susan Nowlin, one of five women now in the formerly all-male Penn State Marching Blue Band, was in full uniform at practice last night on the astroturf with Band director James Dunlop. See the story on women in the Blue Band on page 7. • tal W of DR. J. ROBERT WIRAG opens the organizational meeting of the Student Advisory Board to the Ritenour Health Center last night in Ritenour. C the daily conference following an executive_ session of the'committee. The leadoff witness for the hearings is for the Republican National Committee. convicted Watergate conspirator Hunt, a former CIA operative and member of the White House plumbers group. Hunt asked a federal judge Monday to withdraw his guilty plea in the original Watergate case and dismiss charges against him. Hunt said he had been told of the ' Watergate break-in had the approval of high White House officials and was connected with national security His Senatvi testimony is expected - to deal both with Watergate and with other political espionage and sabotage and is to serve as a transition to other phases of the investigation. 'Weather Mostly sunny and pleasantly cool today, high 65. Clear and chilly tonight, tow 42. Increasing cloudiness and not as cool tomorrow, high 71. being rendered; and to benefit the individual board member through knowledge derived from participating in the search for solutions to health care delivery problems. Dr. Wirag suggested possible committee to the board members. One dealt with the drug problem. Di. Wirag pointed out some members have had experience with drug - prevention organizationi. Another committee for closing the communications gap between students and the health center also was proposed. "Most people don't know what services are available, and misconception formed from ignorance produces negative attitudes towards the center," Wirag said. A research committee, to conduct a survey of the care given by Ritenour, also was suggested. Ins the board's intent to convene once a month for a general meeting and the subcommittees. to meet as often as they want, Dr. Wirag said. The committees then will bring up their proposals during a general meeting. Dr. Wirag described the atmosphere of the meeting as wholesome. r'`l feel that there's a sincere interest in the group at large," he -said. "I could •detect no animosity whatever." The first regular board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Oct. 2. Kissinger okay granted, wiretapping study slated WASHINGTON (AP) Thd Senate Foreign Relations Cominittee yesterday approved the nomination of Henry A. Kissinger as secretary ',of State. . At the same time, ' the committee resolved to undertake a, study of the use of wiretapping of American citizens in connection with foreign affairs. The committee vote on Kissinger was 16-1, with only Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., recorded against. McGovern said his vote was a symbolic protest against "needless prolongation of the Indochina war," the Agnew silent on resignation WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Spiro T.: Agnew yesterday refused comment on reports he may resign because of involvement in a Maryland political corruption probe. But Agnew's office said no such move is expected. Agnew, leaving a luncheon he gave for visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Ali Bhutto, was confronted by waiting newsmen and asked about a report that he was considering resigning, possibly by week's end. "Gentlemen, as you know it is my practice not to comment on stories from undisclosed sources," - Agnew said. Republican sources, meanwhile, named Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., as the senior GOP figure with whom Agnew was said to have discussed recently the possibility of resigning and who told the Washington Post he was "99 1 , per cent sure that he would resign probably by the end of .the week." But in New York, Goldwater denied this and said he had not spoken in months to the Post reporter whose story touched off the furor. Of Agnew he said, "I don't think he's Junta to try 'extremists' SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) The four man junta announced yesterday military courts will try "foreign extremists" caught resisting Chile's new military government. .Conviction could bring the death sentence. A junta spokesman, giving official figures for the first time, said 95 persons have been killed and 300 wounded since last Tuesday's coup that toppled the three-year-old government of Marxist President Salvador Allende. There have been 4,700 arrests in a week of skirmishes between troops and leftist militants supporting Allende, the spokesman said. SAB votes request end to queen contest By STEVE OSTROSKY Collegian Staff Writer ,The Student Advisory Board Caucus last night unanimously voted to censure the University Union Board and to ask University President John W. Oswald to ban this year's Homecoming Queen contest. Citing problems with the Homecoming Queen Committee and the idea of the contest itself, SAB members decided HUB was ignoring the Homecoming tradition. Doreen Robotti r Association of Women Students president, said UUB and the Homecoming committees were being deceitful and discriminatory. Robotti condemned 'IJUB for not accepting responsibility for the committees it appointed. Robotti said she contacted the Homecoming Committee and Queen Committee MEE legian secret bombings of Cambodia in 1969 and 1970 and "the 1971 tragedy of Bangladesh." The Kissinger nomination is expected to reach the Senate floor for confirmation tomorrow or Friday. The German-born former Harvard professor is to make the opening U.S. speech to the new session of the United Nations General Assembly Monday. Chairman J.W. Fulbright, D-Ark., said the committee's 15-0 vote for a wiretapping study should not be considered a reflection on Kissinger's role in_ surveillance of 13 government going to quit. My hunch is that he's going to stay." Goldwater said Agnew is a close pblitical and social friend who he has seen often recently but that the subject of resignation has not risen. "If it did, I would advise him to fight it out," Goldwater said. The White House refused comment on the matter. But a source familiar with Agnew's thinking said he believed a serious misunderstanding led to the report. He said he believed that "a bad overreading of something Agnew might have toyed with" led to the story. "The source of the story apparently caught Agnew in a moment of reflection and came away with the impression that this was going to happen," the Agnew associate said. "Agnew is a man under siege, and therefore is highly susceptible to being misinterpreted in what he says." J. Marsh Thomson, Agnew's press spokesman, declined to deny the Post story flatly, but characterized it as "no better a story than the rumors that have been circulating about the vice president recently." Earlier estimates by police sources placed the number of dead at 500 and some said the final toll would be much higher. Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, junta president and army commander-in chief, told newsmen the situation throughout Chile is now "absolutely normal." A number of foreigners are believed to be among the 4,700 prisoners. Col. Pedro Ewin, government secretary-general, said the foreigners will be tried by military courts "acting as war councils." Col. Oscar Bonilla, the interior minister, said a majority of the Chileans among the prisoners will be to censure chairperson Richard Schroeder, both of whom claimed no ties with UUB. Robotti said the committees' office is in the name of the UUB. She said she asked Schroeder, who called himself "the Homecoming Queen Committee," why men could not enter the contest, and he replied, "There's no way a man can win." Robotti said she asked Schroeder if it did not depend on the judges, and he replied, "I pick the judges." Bruce Kelly, Organization of Town Independent Students president, said SAB should check to see if the Queen Committee has violated any discrimination rules. One way he suggested to check was to encourage men to enter and see if they would be accepted as candidates by the committee. Patricia Stewart, editor of The Daily Collegian, said she talked to committee members and they said if AWS pressures the committee, it will open the contest to men. Robotti said Schroeder also insulted her personally throughout their meeting. She said, "I was very upset with his attitude." '" ' t , r .-, /Also cited as a problem was the way the committee was collecting queen applications and the fee. The Panhellenic and Interfraternity council offices are being used as collection points for the applications and fees, instead,tt the UUEI office. Ftobotti said this makes it appear UUI3 has nothing to do with Homecoming. IFC President Pete Stainthorpe said, "I'm sick of the frats taking all the flak for what UUB has done. They don't'take the responsibility." Mark Jinks, Undergraduate Student Government president, said the contest was insulting to women and termed the contest a "meat market." University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University Wednesday, September 19, 1973 Vol. 74, No. 19 12 pages officials and four newsmen between May 1969 and Febrary 1971. - A two-member subcommittee secretly examined an FBI summary of the wiretaps and concluded that Kissinger's role "was not such as to bar him from confirmation by the Senate." Fulbright said Kissinger, in both public and private hearings before the committee, expressed .:abhorrence of wiretapping and determination to resist its use in the future. As secretary of state, Kissinger will retain his position as presidential assistant for national security affairs. Meanwhile, Gerald L. Warren, the deputy White House press secretary, turned aside with repeated "no comment" all inquiries about the Post story. Warren said he was taking the no comment stance after discussing the situation with President Nixon. Asked if Nixon and Agnew had talked privately since their two-hour session Sept. 1, Warren said, "I don't believe so." The Post report said . the unnamed senior Republican it talked to had spent two hours with Agnew last week trying to talk him out of resigning but was convinced that he had failed and that Agnew would step down. The Republican was quoted as saying Agnew is determined to prove that he is innocent of the allegations leveled at him during a federal investigation of possible political graft in Maryland. Agnew is personally under investigation for possible criminal violations of tax, extortion, bribery and conspiracy laws. The vice president had steadfastly maintained his innocence. 4 freed once an investigation is completed. Only Pinochet has authority to impose the death sentence en those convicted by the military tribunals, Ewin said. "The courts are going to be very severe with foreigners," Pinochet told newsmen, "because it is unacceptable that these persons, who came to receive education, appeared jater as extremists, killing.pur own citizens." The junta said Allende committed suicide after troops entered the presidential palace following bomb and rocket attacks. The palace battle was followed by four days of stiff fighting. UUB, SAB also decided future policy for SAB caucuses. The . week before the scheduled SAB meeting with Oswald, an open meeting will be held to find out what issues students are concerned with. In .other discussion, Roger Richards, Graduate Student Association president, said SAB should decide whether to have another Encampment or not. Richards said, "The main thing we got out of Encampment was contact with administration." Jeff Wallr Association of Residence Hall Students president, said, "We found out the administration wasn't listening to us because we are not organized among ourselves." Stewart said it might help the situation if Oswald said he would like to see administrators talk to students. Kelly agreed • with her and suggested discussing the contact problem up at the next SAB meeting. Jinks led the discussion on campus bus service. He described the proposal to the State College Borough Council that USG would put-up $4,200 towards campus bus service. He said students will have to show the administration how and why campus transportation is important to them. Jinks said one reason a campus transportation system is needed is for students who are unable to walk to classes because of injuries or medical problems. Jinks said the biggest stumbling block is the University has not taken a position on the transportation issue. He suggested the University get together with Borough Council to set up some kind of bus service. He added there should be some kind of transportation this term even if it is temporary. ' It was decided unanimously to ask Oswald to allow the Free University to be represented on SAB.
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