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.
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DR. J. ROBERT WIRAG opens the organizational meeting of the Student Advisory Board to
the Ritenour Health Center last night in Ritenour.
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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
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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."
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/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."
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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.