Ervin lacks authority
to get tapes—Sirica
WASHINGTON (AP)—A federal judge
yesterday ruled the Senate Watergate
committee has no authority to sue
President Nixon in an effort to obtain
White House tapes of presidential
conversations.
U.S. District Court Judge John J.
Sirica’s dismissal oL the committee’s
civil suit marked thajßrst legal victory
for the President in his battle to withhold
the tapes from the committee and
special Watergate prosecutor.
Two court decisions have affirmed the
special prosecutor's argument that the
President must give the tapes to a
federal grand jury investigating the
scandal.
But Sirica said the committee failed to
get congressional authority to sue the
President.
A committee spokesman said the
OD promised funds
By JEFF DeBRAY
Collegian Senior Reporter
On Drugs, Inc. yesterday received a
"verbal commitment” of money to keep
the group in operation- until county
funding is approved.
OD Training Coordinator Barbara
Wakshul said Dr. John Swisher, acting
secretary of the County Council on Drug
and Alcohol Abuse, told her the money
would be made available, after he talked
to Chief Centre County Commissioner J.
Doyle Corman.
Wakshul said Cormqji, who last night
was unavailable for comment, would not
reveal the source of the funding.
But Corman last week confirmed that
a possible source of OD funding was
some $20,000 the county received about
three weeks ago from settlement of a
class action suit against 12 major oil
companies.
Wakshul said OD has not received any
indication of when it will get the money
but added it must be before the end of
next week or the group will be without
funds.
“I guess wetwon't believe it until we
get a check or some kind of a definite
written statement,” she said. “We all
have experienced so much bursting of
bubbles.”
OD. which announced at a press
Williams new chief
_ By CARL DiORIO
“Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Borough Council
yesterday unanimously accepted Lt.
Elwood G. Williams, Jr. as a temporary
replacement for recently resigned
Police Chief Herbert Straley.
Williams, second in command of the
force for the past year and
recommended by Straley for the interim
position, will assume duties as police
head Nov. 1.
Plans for selection process' of .a
permanent chief were presented by
Public Safety Committee Chairman
Arnold Addison. ‘A hiring advisory
committee comprised of representatives
from local organizations will be chosen
by Jan. 1, Addison said.
Although a number of organizations
already havg jjetitioned to work on the
committee, Addison said, all groups not
represented will be invited to speak at a
public meeting on the police chief
selection.
According to Council President
Lawrence Perez, independent citizens
cannot serve on the committee because
the confidentiality of the group would be
jeopardized.
But Perez emphasized that citizen
input by mail is welcome.
AAUP ready to actively
for PSU collective bargaining
By ROBYN MOSES
Collegian Staff Writer
The American Association of
University Professors has decided to
work actively toward collective
bargaining at Penn State. I
A decision O on whether to elect AAUP
as Penn State’s bargaining agent will be
made at a meeting 8 p.m. today in 112
Kern.
Faculty non-members are invited and
everyone will be given an opportunity to
present his views. A representative of
the AAUP national office also will be
present.
After the meeting ballots will be
mailed to all active AAUP members.
This will determine whether to hold an
election campaign.
Weather
Partly cloudy and cool today with
increasing cloudiness, high 50. Tonight
mostly cloudy : 'with a chance of a few
showers, low 39. Friday variable
cloudiness, high 55. .
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decision probably would be appealed.
Meanwhile, three corporations which
admitted making illegal contributions to
Nixon’s re-election campaign pleaded
guilty to misdemeanor violations of
federal law.
In a brief order, Sirica said the court
lacked jurisdiction in the tapes suit, an
argument made by the White House in
its opposition to the committee’s civil
action.
“No jurisdictional statute known to the
court, including the four which plaintiffs
name, warrants an assumption of
jurisdiction, and the court is therefore
left ■ with no alternative here but to
dismiss the action,” Sirica said.
Sirica’s decision followed by less than
a week the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling
upholding his earlier order in the case
involving nine tapes subpoenaed by
conference Sept. 27 it would suspend all
services Oct. 31, needs $B,OOO in funding
for the rest of the year. A Sunday night
hot line service remains in effect until
the month’s end.
OD’s financial problems stem from
the commissioners’ failure thus far to
appropriate 10 per cent in matched funds
so the county can receive $90,000 in
social service funds. The $90,000, of
which OD has requested $26,000, has
been approved tentatively by the
Governor’s Council on Drug and Alcohol
Abuse.
OD President John Elliot called the
commissioners’ failure to appropriate
the money “a bureaucratic conflict.” He
said there was a lack of communication
between the state and county councils
about the funding.
A meeting is scheduled for tomorrow
with the commissioners, the county
council and the Mental Health-Mental
Retardation Board, at which a decision
about, the funding could be reached.
“We are going to hope for some
action,” Wakshul said.
Corman said last week there is a good
chance the matched funds will be
provided.
“It looks optimistic,” Wakshul said,
“but until we see something concrete,
we won’t get our hopes up too high.”
Councilman Allen Patterson urged
that student representatives!be invited
to attend interviewing sessions to screen
applicants on matters of student
concern. J
Advertisements for the position will be
placed in various state and national
publications, Addison said. Candidates
for the $15,000-a-year job must|be'3o to 55
years old and . five years police
experience, at least three in a
supervisory capacity. |
Atthe urging of Straley and Police Sgt.
Ron Smeal, Council agreed to I waive die
supervisory time requirement for
applicants from within the jborough’s
police force. Of the department, only
Williams has supervisory experience.
“We’re looking real hard at the
possibility of hiring from a local
source,” Councilman Edwin Frost said.
In other business, Perez asked Straley
if Council could take action against D
and D Parking Lot Security Co. when
complaints of abuse arise, i
Straley said although (“they’re
conducting it (ticketing) more on a
bounty -basis than they are trying to
solve problems,” Council] has no
authority over D and D.
All criminal complaints against the
company should be reported to the
police, Straley said. 1
In its meeting Sept. 25, the board of the
University Park Chapter (decided
unanimously “the time has arrived for
the AAUP to work actively toward
collective bargaining.” ;
This decision was prompted by a
membership poll the board took last
spring. Results indicated members
desired a collective bargaining election
be held with AAUP listed as bargaining
agent. A 71 per cent majority of votes
cast favored either preparation for or
initiation of this action.
According to a letter by Robert
Scholten, University Park chapter
president, “A decision on this issue is
probably the most important one this or
any other chapter has ever 1 had to
make.”
In a newsletter to AAUP members,
several criteria were cited which played
a major role in the board’s action.,
Included are:
the erosion of the faculty’s
economic position due to decreasing
public understanding and support of
higher education. Average percentage
raises to faculties in institutions where
collective bargaining exists were said to
speciaf Watergate prosecutor Archibald
Cox.
In that case Sirica ordered the
President to give him the tapes to hear in
private so he could determine if Nixon’s
claim they must be kept secret was
valid.
The President is expected to carry his
appeal in that case to the Supreme
Court. He has until Friday to ask the
Supreme Court to review the case.
The three companies yesterday
charged with misdemeanors over
campaign contributions are American
Airlines, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.,
and 1 , Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing Co. Charges were also
filed against the board chairmen of
Goodyeartand Minnesota Mining.
Goodyear and its board chairman,
Russell deYoung, pleaded guilty in
federal court in Cleveland. The company
was fined.-$5,000 and deYoung* $l,OOO, the
maximum fines for each.
After entering guilty pleas in federal
court in St. Paul, Minn., Minnesota
Mining was fined $3,000 and its board
chairman and chief executive officer,
Harry Heltzer, $5OO.
American Airlines entered a guilty
plea and was fined'ss,ooo.
The companies and their executives
were charged with violating federal law
which prohibits-campaign contributions
from corporate funds.
United States, Soviet Union
seek solution to Mid-East war
WASHINGTON (AP) The United
States and the Soviet Union have
engaged in extensive discussions in the
last few days in efforts to find a solution
to the Middle East conflict, it was
learned yesterday.
U.S. officials are known to feel the
discussions have not reached the point of
specific language for a solution. But they
believe there has been a change in the
diplomatic situation.
The talks apparently have taken place
between Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger. and Anatoly Dobrynin, the
Soviet ambassador to the United States.
Sources at the United Nations
indicate, meanwhile, that there have
been little, if any, meaningful
discussions in New York on the matter.
Among the possibilities coming from
Arabs cut oil production;
Sinai
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Israeli command yesterday
claimed destruction of at least 90
Egyptian tanks along the Suez Canal,
and its top military man declared “we
are now calling the tune.”
The Egyptian command reported
“fierce battles” along the central and
southern Sinai front and claimed Israeli
forces suffered “heavy losses in tanks
and armored cars.”
On the Syrian front, Syrian artillery
barrages crashed down on Israelis
stalled on the road to Damascus.
In Kuwait, an organization of Arab oil
producing countries announced it has
decided to cut oil production by not less
work
be greater than in institutions where it
does not exist.
increased centralization of decision
making at the higher administrative
levels in large universities. This move
has produced a corporate structure in
which the faculty’s role is changing from
a partner to an employe.
a feeling that faculty should be
given a choice between organizations
with significantly different philosophy,
experience and organizational structure
than PSUBranch, which soon will seek
signatures for an election.
the fact that two state-related
universities, Temple and Lincoln,
already have chosen AAUP as their
bargaining agent.
that “funds needed for a successful
campaign have been promised by the
National Headquarters without strings
attached.”
“Although chapters are supported by
the national organization, they remain;
free and flexible in their individual
policies and are exclusively under local
control. While pursuing its' goals with
vigor, the organization continues to seek
harmony and cooperation 1 in the
academic community,” Scholten said.
the U.S.-Soviet discussions are a cease
fire in place or a return to the boundaries
existing before the Arab attack nearly
two weeks ago.
The talks with the Soviet Union are
understood to go beyond a cease-fire
itself to cover an over-all settlement of
the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In a related matter, State Department
spokesman ■ Robert ~J. McCloskey
yesterday said an American route has
been established for the air delivery of
arms and other military equipment to
Israel.
McCloskey declined to outline the
delivery route but the United States has
an agreement with Portugal allowing
American military aircraft to land and
refuel in the Azores in the Middle
Atlantic.
tank battle
than 5 per cent immediately and an
additional 5 per cent each succeeding
month until Israel withdraws from
occupied Arab lands and Palestinian
refugees’ rights are restored.
Israel’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. David
Elazar, the head of Tel Aviv’s armies,
said Israel’s main effort was now
concentrated against the Egyptians, and
“we are now initiating the attacks on
both sides of the Suez Canal.” .
The Israeli state radio’s top
commentator, former army intelligence
chief Maj. Gen. Haim Herzog, called the
Suez battle “the biggest armored clash
in our military history.”
The Israeli command said “large
scale armored battles” raged in the
central area along the canal.
Elazar did not indicate if assaults by
Tel Aviv forces on the west bank
involved an Israeli task force the
command Tuesday said had crossed the
waterway to operate in Egypt proper.
Another military spokesman
yesterday said the task force, whose size
has not been specified, “continues to
operate.”
In Cairo, Gen. Izzettin Mukhtar said
over television an Israeli task force
operating on the west bank of the canal
had been destroyed.
An Israeli military spokesman said in
Tel Aviv the task force “had
encountered rear command posts. It has
tried to destroy them and has
succeeded.”
President Nixon met at the White
House with four Arab foreign ministers
dispatched to Washington from U.N.
duty to discuss American military aid to
Israel.
Nixon acknowledged afterward that
the four from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
Morocco and Algeria • had
“differences” with American policy in
the Middle East. But he expressed
confidence “a fair and just and peaceful
settlement” can end the war, now 12
days old.
King Hussein of Jordan said the future
of the Middle East will be shaped by the
outcome of the conflict, the fourth major
Arab-Israeli war since the birth of Israel
in 1948.
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President Nixon and Secretary of State Henrv A. Kissinger
Guided tour escort the foreign ministers of four Arab nations on a tour of
White House grounds after talks on the Middle East situation.
Meanwhile, President Nixon
yesterday met with the foreign minister
of four Arab nations and proclaimed
afterward a Mideast peace “can and will
and must be achieved.”
Nixon and Foreign Minister Umar al-
Saggat of Saudi Arabia, talked briefly to
newsmen in the White House' rose
garden after a 50-minute conference that
included the foreign ministers of
Algeria, Kuwait and Morrocco.
Kissinger and the Arab ministers
decided after the White House
conference to continue the discussions at
the State Department, a spokesman for
Kissinger reported.
Nixon conferred with the foreign
ministers after they spent 45 minutes
with Kissinger and prior to their trip to
the State Department to continue
discussions with the secretary of state.
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called '
“We may still be very far from peace
... Yet we may be very close to it,” he
told newsmen in Amman in his first
public statements since fighting broke
out. “I believe very strongly that Israel
isnow in a position to make up her mind,
and should do so.”
The 37-year-old monarch, who lost
much of his kngdom including East
Jerusalem in the. 1967 war, is reported to
have come under heavy pressure from
other Arab nations to enter the warjfull
scale and turn his 250-mile border with
Israel into a third front, draining Israeli
energies from Syria and the Sinai.
The Israeli push into Syria remained
blocked for the fourth day on the
approaches to Sasa, a town about 21
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban
declared yesterday that if Israel’s
security is guaranteed, the government
is prepared to make “the most
substantial compromises” in an effort to
achieve a final peace settlement with the
Arabs.
Eban was responding to a question
about possible concessions Israel might
make in negotiations leading to a lasting
Middle East settlement.
He said Premier Golda Meir had just
communicated Israel’s position 'to
several friendly heads of state.
He stressed that there must be a
separation between a cease-fire and
negotiations for a settlement.
“If you want to say to us what will we
give for a cease-fire in return for ; a
cease-fire, we will give a cease-fire,”
Eban told newsmen.
“If you want to know what we will give
for peace, then we will certainly be
ready for the 1 most substantial
compromises provided, of course, that
our basic security is not affected.” |
miles southwest of Damascus and about
19 miles beyond the cease-fire lines
drawn when Israel seized the Golan
Heights from Syria in 1967.
Syrian artillery rained shells on the
battle-scarred road to Damascus.
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Nixon, while acknowledging the
United States and the Arab nations have
differences over means toward peace as
well as “certain ends,” said all were
dedicated to the goal of “a fair and just
and equitable peace.”
“A major goal and an urgent goal at
this time, which we believe can and will
and must be achieved is a fair, just and
peaceful settlement in the Mideast,”
Nixon- said.
Saqqaf, acting as spokesman for the
foreign ministers, who in turn said they
represented 18 Arab nations, told
reporters, “We think the man who could
solve the Vietnam war and the man who
could have settled peace all over the
world can easily play a good role in
settling having peace in our area of
the Middle East.”
ierce'
Faas said from the front that dust
swirling up from explosions was so thick
it clouded the view of Mt. Hermon
looking down on the battleground.
Syria said its armor a
counterattack against the Israeli forces
that have punched into Syria along a
jagged 20-mile wide front.
The Syrians said Israeli planes also
attacked Syria’s two main
Mediterranean ports of Latakia and
Tartus for at least the third time in war.
The ports are said to be funnels for
Soviet military aid reported pouring into
Syria and Egypt.
Damascus said three Israeli jets were
shot down during the raids but it
disclosed nothing on any damage. The
Syrians said an Israeli Mirage also was
knocked out of the sky in a dogfight 13
miles northwest of Damascus.
The report brought to 559 the number
of Israeli aircraft claimed shot down by
Syria and Egypt. Israel was estimated to
have 488 planes in its air force before the
war started and military analysts
considered the Arab claims inflated.
The United States nevertheless has
mounted an emergency program to
resupply Israel with F 4 Phantom jets,
tanks and other war material. U.S.
officials in Washington said American
transport planes are delivering 700 to 800
tons of equipment a day.
U.S. officials in Washington said the
Soviets are bringing in supplies for the
Arab side about as fast as the Americans
are bringing them in for the Israelis. The
Soviet effort also includes tanks and
fighter planes, they added.
Oswald
to speak
£: University President John W.
Oswald will hold an informal talk
g session 8 p.m. Thursday in the
& Shunk ground floor lobby.
S: All students are invited to attend.