Albert rejects Agnew request
House
WASHINGTON (AP) Speaker Carl
Albert has rejected for the time any
House action on Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew's request for an investigation of
charges he was involved in political
corruption in Maryland.
That left a federal grand jury in
Baltimore as the only forum scheduled
to hear evidence- on the allegations_
against Agnew. Atty. Gen. Elliot L.
Richardson has ordered the panel to
begin hearing that evidence this
morning.
Albert announced his decision- on
Agnew's request in a statement
yesterday afternoon.
"The vice president's letter relates to
matters before the courts," the
statement said. "In view of that fact, I,
as speaker, will not take any action on
the letter at this time." He refused to
elaborate or answer questions.
Agnew's surprise request for the
House investigation was made in a letter
Buchanan denies pulling strings
WASHINGTON (AP) Nixon
campaign tactician Patrick J. Buchanan
yesterday said that ghost-written
advertisements, pranks and undercover
operatives are legitimate political
weapons.
He denied to the Senate Watergate
committee, beginning the dirty tricks
phase of its hearings, that he pulled the
strings on political sabotage in the 1972
campaign from his post as President
Nixon s top speech writer.
And he accused the committee of
harboring "character assassins" who he
said orchestrated a campaign to malign
his reputation through the news media in
advance of his testimony.
"A covert campaign of vilification
carried on by staff members of your
committee," Buchanan termed the leaks
to news media.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., the
committee's Democratic Chairman, and
Republican vice chairman Sen. Howard
H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn. as well as
majority counsel Samuel Dash all
said they deplored the leaks.
"There are covert or clandestine
activities in intelligence in my view that
there is nothing wrong with," Buchanan
testified.
He conceded he directed the
preparation of advertisements that
appeared in the name of various
committees, but added: _
"I've ghosted speeches for presidents,
for vice presidents, for senators. I've
ghosted letters to the editor. What's
wrong with ghosting an ad that people
Senate rejects troop cutback amendment
WASHINGTON (AP) Overturning a
vote taken earlier in the day, the Senate
yesterday rejected an amendment
forcing a 40-per-cent cutback in U.S.
land-based troops stationed abroad.
Senators yesterday morning voted 49
to 46 for the withdrawal •but a second
vote was 1 necessary to tie the
amendment by Senate Democratic
Leader Mike Mansfield to the military
procurement authorization bill.
The second vote was 51 to 44 against
the amendm'ent.
The amendment directs that 200,000 of
the 500,000 troops stationed abroad be
withdrawn by July 1, 1976, with at least
50.000 being pulled back by next July 1.
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the
daily
investigation
the vice president hand delivered to
Albert Tuesday.
The vice president was on Capitol Hill
yesterday for lunch with 10 liberal
Republican senators and told newsmen
he had every intention of staying in
office.
"I want to make it very clear that I am
not resigning," he said.
Agnew also said he would hold a news
conference at some future point, but did
not say when.
Sen. Mark 0. Hatfield, R-Ore., host for
the luncheon, told a reporter later the
senators met with Agnew for more than
an hour and that no one in the group
believed Albert's rejection of Agnew's
request was final 'or irrevocable.
Meanwhile, the White ' House said
President Nixon had neither encouraged
nor pressured Agnew to take• any
particular course in responding to or
fighting the graft allegations against
him.
are willing to put names on?"
He admitted freely that he had urged
an early attack on Sen. Edmund S.
Muskie of Maine when he was the front
runner for the Democratic presidential
nomination, but said he was not aware of
any political sabotage campaign against
Muskie or any other Democrat.
And he confirmed he recommended
measures to counter ; tax-exempt
organizations like. the Ford Foundation
whose policies, he said, are "in basic
disagreement with our own political
philosophy."
"My view is that we ought to make the
whole question of tax-exempt
foundations and the use of their funds ...
to unbalance, the political process ... a
public and political issue," Buchanan
said.
He said he recommended creation "of
some of our own institutions"
conservative in nature to be a counter
to institutions he said had a liberal bias
and for withholding discretionary funds
for such organizations.
"I would recommend the President would have been little short of
turn over such grants to organizations catastrophe. The only Democratic
which follow principles' we believe in, candidate I would have been
rather than to such as . the Brookings comfortable with would have been Sen.
Institution, which in my judgment is a' Henry M. Jackson."
government in exile for the Democratic
Party," he said. President "I believe that outside of the
' Buchanan said he was asked in White House, we should keep the heat on
summer 1971 to direct an investigation of Big Ed.. -If, then, he does get the
Pentagon Papers figure Daniel Ellsberg nomination, he will be scarred —as to be
but turned it down as "a waste of my politically ineffective."
time and my abilities." He said he did On July 28, 1971, deputy campaign
It would apply to U.S. troops in all
foreign countries.
The 100,000 sea-based troops would be
exempt from the cutback.
U.S. forces are stationed on every
continent, including Antarctica...
Mansfield had asked for a 50-per cent
withdrawal, but amended it at the last
minute to 40 per cent. A second vote on
the amendment was to come on tying the
cutback to the $2l-billion military
procurement authorization bill.
Before the order could become
effective, it would have to win approval
of a House-Senate conference and later
of both houses, and be signed .by
President Nixon.
Photo by Fred Fellmeth
Deputy White House Press Secretary
Gerald L. Warren said he believed it
would be improper for the White House
to comment on Agnew's choice of
methods for fighting the graft
allegations but added Nixon "respects
the vice.president's rights and privilege
to handle this in his own way."
On another matter, Warren said Nixon
did not concur or need to concur in
Richardson's decision to take Justice
Department evidence against Agnew to
the federal grand jury in Baltimore.
Nixon "did not want to interject
himself into or interfere with the judicial
process and therefore it was not a
matter of the President approving or
concurring in the attorney general's
action," Warren said.
Last month federal prosecutors
notified the vice president he was under
investigation for possible violations of
tax, extortion bribery and conspiracy
not know - that subsequently a group of
"plumbers" was set up for that purpose.
Buchanan2long a vocal defender of
Nixon policies, 'appeared without a
lawyer. He invoked executive privilege
only indirectly in refusing to bring
documents asked in a committee
subpoena. He said he did so on advice of
White House attorneys.
But the committee had 34 memoranda,
from Buchanan and others, obtained
elsewhere.
The documents showed:
On March 24, 1971, Buchanan in a
memo to the President headed "the
Muskie Watch" recommended the
administration's interests "dictate
smoking him out now and keeping him in
front as long is we can."
Buchanan explained he felt then that
political resources should be
concentrated on Muskie, then the
Democratic front-runner.
Of the election, Buchanan said, "If
Muskie or Sen. George McGovern had
won the election, given their views on
American policies in Southeast Asia, it
On April 19, 1971, Buchanan told the
The House voted earlier this year
against a 20-per-cent cutback in foreign
based troops. And Nixon has said this is
the wrong time for a withdrawal.
But Mansfield told the Senate that
action is long overdue.
Sen. John G. Tower, R-Tex., said the
Mansfield amendment would sabotage
planned U.S.-Soviet nggotiations on
mutual and balanced for& reductions in
Europe.
Responding to statements that
European nations have not contributed
their share to the North Atlantic -Treaty
Organization, Tower said, "We, are not
in Europe for some altruistic reason"
but for protection of American security
interests.
Sen. John =O. Pastore, D-R.1., noting
arguments that a U.S. presence in
Europe is essential to the defense of that
Universities may have to borrow funds
College appropriations delayed
By STEVE OSTROSIcY
Collegian Staff Writer
A delay in Pennsylvania
appropriations for state-related
universities is beginning to cause
financial problems for several colleges.
Until the state legislature approves an
appropriations bill, the University of
Pittsburgh, Temple University and Penn
State will have to borrow money. Lincoln
University nd the University of
Pennsylvania will have to borrow money
if the delay continues into November.
Penn State has not yet had to borrow
any money because of the delay in
appropriations, but it -will have to
borrow money to meet its end-of-the
month payroll.
State-related universities normally
must borrow money to meet payments.
Later they are reimbursed by the state.
But in this case, the universities will
not be reimbursed until the legislature
passes the appropriations bill. So,
instield of paying three months' interest,
denied
laws. Agnew has steadfastly proclaimed
his innocence.
In rejecting Agnew's request for a
House hearing, Albert left open the
possibility when Agnew's case is no
longer a matter for judicial action, the
House might reconsider the decision if
the facts warrant.
As leader of the Democratic majority
in the House, Albert's personal decision
is decisive providing he can keep
Democratic members behind him.
Albert made his announcement after
conferring with other House Democratic
leaders and there were indications that
decision would not be challenged.
House Republican Leader Gerald R.
Ford of Michigan said he would not try to
forge any coalition to override Albert's
decision.
"If . their ranks are solid and our ranks
are solid, we don't have the votes," Ford
said. "It's that simple."
-director Jeb Stuart Magruder wrote
John N. Mitchell, then attorney general,
that "in Buchanan's view ... if Muskie is
nominated, he should be painted 'as far
left as possible.' "
April 27, 1972,. Buchanan wrote
Mitchell and H. R. Haldeman, then
presidential chief of staff, that,
Republicans "do as little as possible at
this time to impede McGovern's rise."
Buchanan told the committee, "My
recommendation repeatedly was we
ought not to do anything to Sen.
McGovern to impede his run for the
presidency."
Buchanan defended such practices as
placing someone with a sign "Nixon
Country" in crowds awaitipg the arrival
of the Democratic candidate. Such a
photograph would be carried by news
services and printed widely and would
be advantageous, he said.
He said one idea came out of the
campaign book of Lawrence F. O'Brien,
the former Democratic national
chairman. It was to get Republicans on
Democratic mailing lists.
Buchanan said he found hilarious one
project of placing a large group of
pregnant black women into the Miami
Beach convention area with signs saying
"Nixon's the One."
":Republicans were not responsible for
the downfall of Sen. Muskie," he said.
"Republicans were not responsible for
the nomination of Sen. McGovern... The
McGovern people won their own
nomination and they lost their own
election."
continent, asked: "Why don't the
European nations do their share? Any
time we try to pull back one man, they
shout "the Communists are coming, the
Communists are coming!"
He said that when dependents of U.S.
servicemen, foreign nationals hired to
support them, and U.S. civilians abroad
are included, American taxpayers spend
$3O billion a year for maintaining a U.S.
military presence around the world.
Weather
Mostly sunny and unseasonably warm
today, high 80. Some cloudiness and mild
tonight, low 59. Friday mostly cloudy
with showers and a possible
thundershower during the afternoon,
high 76.
the universities will have to pay interest
on their loans until their funds are
approved. _
Last year the University spent $474,000
on interest payments during- the
appropriations delay and more than $1
million during the 1971-72 fiscal year.
Because of the delay in funding, the
University is holding off on faculty and
staff salary increases.
Pitt borrowed $5 million to meet
summer expenses and is prepared to
borrow another $5 million.
Pitt has paid $79,200 in interest on the
firtt loan, but Pitt budgeted $500,000 for
total interest payments in 1974 in
expectation of a delay in state funding.
Temple will have to begin borrowing
extra money Oct. 1, since it will not
receive its first quarter subsidy Sept. 30
as scheduled.
According to James Logan, financial
vice president for Temple, the university
will have to borrow about $4.5 million at
an interest rate of 10 per cent.
Thursday, September 27, 1973
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Meeting on by-pass
produces no decision
By JEFF DeBRAY
Collegian Senior Reporter
No final decisions. were made on the
proposed middle section of the State
College By-Pass yesterday, after a
meeting in Harrisburg between
representatives of Centre Citizens
Council and the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation.
Sue Smith, president of the
council, which is opposed to present by
pass plans mainly on environmental
grounds, termed the meeting "very
successful."
"It went very well," she said. They
(PennDOT) learned some new things
and I think they are really going to start
doing some more research into the by
pass."
Present PennDOT plans for the middle
section include a trumpet-shaped
interchange connection to the Benner
Pike, a - 30-foot median and a diamond
shaped interchange connection to Park
Avenue.
CCC did not support this proposal and
has been requesting PennDOT to delay
further planning and construction until
next year's completion of a Centre
Regional Area Transportation _Study.
As a result of yesterday's meeting it
Temple originally requested $54.9
million, but the Senate bill provides for a
$52.9 million 'appropriation. Logan said
the difference is "a big problem."
Temple already has had to increase its
yearly tuition by $BO to meet rising costs.
Logan said no big programs have been
cut because of a smaller appropriation.
Lincoln has not yet had to borrow any
money because of the delay, but a
spokesman from the university said,
"We're in the same situation that Penn
State is in: we're in trouble."
He said Lincoln probably will not have
to borrow money until late October.
Lincoln originally requested $2.3 million
in funds, but the Senate bill provides for
only $l.B million.
Lincoln reduced its in-state tuition this
year, but a spokesman said changes
may have to be made if the
appropriation is cut any more.
In• July the House passed a bill giving
Penn, Drexel, Lincoln, Pitt and Penn
State a five per cent increase over last
year's appropriations.
Photo by Marc Silverman
was "suggested that another meeting
with Deputy Secretary David Sims be
arranged by our attorney Robert
Sugarman after some research is done
into several key issues," according to
CCC's official statement.
Smith would not specify what "key
issues" still have to be looked into and
what type of new information the council
presented to PennDOT officials.
"At this time no decisions have been
made, but the door is open for further
negotiations," the statement continued.
Smith said the meeting accomplished
much of what the group desired and
expressed optimism about future
meetings with PennDOT.
In August CCC charged that PennDOT
had not received necessary approval
from the Department of Housing and
Urban Development for use of College
Township park land to construct the By
pass.
But Galen Dreibelbis, D-77th, re
introduced legislation into the General
Assembly authorizing the land sale to
PennDOT. The bill, which passed the
House unanimously in May is now on the
Senate calendar and will be voted on the
first week of October, Dreibelbis said.
Last week the Senate Appropriations
Committee reported to the Senate floor a
bill giving the six universities a six per
cent increase in funds over last year's
appropriation.
Senate members have said there
appears to be little opposition to- the bill
in the Senate. However, members of the
House have indicated the Senate bill
may not be passed in the House.
This split in the legislature, which will
reconvene Oct. 1, may delay the
appropriation until November or later
according to one representative.
A spokesman for Penn said the
university has no financial problem at
the time. He said the earliest there
would,be any effect would be an the end
of November, when the university is
scheduled to receive its first-quarter
payment from the state.
He said the delay in funds will not
affect Penn as much as Penn State
because state funds account for only
seven per cent of Penn's total budget.