Nixon meeting
reassures Meir
WASHINGTON (AP) Prime
Minister Golda Meir of Israel said
yesterday after meeting with President
Nixon that she was reassured of U.S.
support in trying to achieve "a true and
lasting peace" in the Middle East.
Meir told newsmen Nixon did not
pressure her to pull back Israeli forces
from positions taken after the initial
U.N. cease-fire agreement of Oct. 22.
But, she said, Israel would be willing
to discuss with Egypt a straightening
out of the current cease-fire lines. This,
Meir said, could involve "moving forces
on both sides." •
The proposal could provide,a way of
freeing an estimated 20,000 Egyptian
soldiers encircled by Israeli forces on
the east bank of the Suei Canal.
Although Meir resisted a public
discussion of her hour and 20 minutes
with Nixon at the White House, she said
she left "confident that the friendship
between us will be enhanced and will
grow."
"The President assured me that the
security and well-being of Israel are a
major concern to the United States," she
said.
When Meir insisted several times
that "there is no pressure" on Israel, a
reporter asked why she had come to see
the President. "Just to find out that
there was no pressure," she shot back.
Nixon, meanwhile, described . his
meeting with Meir as "very
constructive," as he said was an earlier
meeting with Foreign Minister Ismail
Fahmy, of Egypt.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
said the President's talks with Meir went
"very well."
Meanwhile, U.S. officials said they
have a "firm understanding" that Israel
and the Arab states eventually will
negotiate directly with each other for a
lasting Middle East settlement. Until
now, the Arabs have never been willing
to have such face-to-face talks.
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Administrative unit discussed
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Staff Writer
Discussion on a proposal for a new
administrative unit to take charge of
lower-division baccalaureate
instruction, associate degree programs,
continuing education and . community
services dominated yesterday's
University Council meeting at Berks
campus.
At the open meeting, members of the
Berks faculty expressed dislike of the
plan.
One faculty member said, "I think
each department is better qualified to
evaluate each facUlty member. I cannot
see why we need a new structute."
Provost Russell E. Larson said the
new unit would evaluate instructors on
what they do at the University. Larson
said because many instructors teach
only freshmen and sophoinore courses,
they should not be evaluated on the same
criteria as faculty members who are
engaged in research and upper-level
teaching.
"The faculty members have a choice
on which way to go," Larson said. "The
administration is not pressuring it on the
faculty."
Charles L. Hasler, dean of the College
of Earth and Mineral Sciences, said, "If
I were an assistant professor teaching
freshmen and sophomore courses at a
Commonwealth Campus, I would be all
for the organization."
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support Israel, Meir replied: "Why
should - it be so surprising that a big
power should not want to see a little
power dumped into the sea?"
Meir is visiting the United States
seeking assurances that her country's
interests will be safeguarded as the
United States and the Soviet Union
oversee exploratory talks designed to
enforce U.N. ceasefire agreements and
pave the way for negotiations on a
lasting- peace agreement-.
Egypt, Syria and other Arab foes - of
the Jewish state consistently have
opposed direct negotiations with it. U.S.
officials in reporting such talks were in
the offing would not say where they
would be held or even whether the Arabs
had specifically agreed.
Meanwhile, as the diploinatic pace
accelerated, these officials indicated
that Kissinger may meet with Mohamed
Zakaria Ismail, the deputy foreign
minister of Syria. Washington has no
diplomatic relations with Damascus, but
any substantive agreement between
Israel and her neighbors would have to
include Syria, which along with Egypt,
was a principal Israel foe in last month's
war. The meeting presumably would be
held here before Kissinger leaves
Monday for Cairo and other Arab
capitals.
However, in New York, the Syrian
minister told a reporter: "I know of no
meeting with Kissinger." Syrian
officials reiterated earlier in the week
that they would not negotiate with Israel
and that the only solution to Middle East
problems is a complete awal from
all occupied territor* s.
In another dev ent, Robert J.
McCloskey, a Sta e Department
spokesman, said the United States has
discussed in meetings with Meir and
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail
Fahmy a possibility of opening a
corridor to the Egyptian 3rd Army
encircled by Israeli troops on the east
bank of the Suez Canal.
McCloskey said neither Egypt nor
Israel has agreed. The proposed
corridor would allow supplies to reach
the trapped Egyptians.
Israeli forces opened fire yesterday on
Egyptian tanks and infantry that moved
out of the circle of Sinai Desert in which
Israel has cut off the Egyptians, the
Israeli military command said.
But the incident apparently did not
upset the general calm prevailing on the
Suez Canal front. A U.N. supply convoy
continued to ferry food and medicine
across the canal to the third army, and
Egyptian and Israeli army officers met
again to discuss the prisoner of war
question, a military spokesman said.
Hosier added, "As a dean I do not like
it for two reasons. I do not like to set up
two sets of standards and I am against
additional administrative structures."
Larson said a similar program exists
in the College of Engineering:and there
have been no problems there.
One faculty member said, "I think I
can speak for most of the faculty. I think
there are so many things, such as this
proposal and collective bargaining, that
we are confused about. A lack of
information is part of the cause."
Robert A. Patterson, senior vice
president for finance and operations,
who was asked what was happening with
appropriations, said, "I do not have an
answer. You are dealing with a two
party system. To make a long story
short, there are always different
situations each year."
Since the State House and Senate had
passed appropriation bills, Patterson
said, "We should have been off and
running by the end of August."
"But we have legislative personalties
which are outside the University scope.
It is a human problem," he said.
Appropriations bills are tied up in a
conference committee where neither
side is yielding to the other.
"The legislators are human and have
their own interests. We are sort of a
pawn in the process," Patterson said.
Berks students complained about
campus food service, which consists
President suspected tape missing
WASHINGTON (AP)—The person
who first suspected that a critical
Watergate conversation was missing
from a White House tape was President
Nixon himself, presidential lawyer J.
Fred Buzhardt said yesterday.
Earlier it was disclosed in court that
presidential aide Stephen V. Bull had
checked out in mid-July a recording
made that day—April 15, 1973. It was
also in mid-July that foriner White,
House chief of staff H. R. HaldeMan
received a batch of recordings from
Bull.
only, of vending machines. The students
said the machines are usually empty by
noon and the food is also poor.
The students asked the Council
members what they thought of their
lunch, which was from the vending
machines.
Ingersoll said, "If the cheesesteak I
had was served at a recently opened
cheesesteak house in State College, the
place would be burned down."
Charles N. Coffer, professor of
psychology, said, "I would rate the food
four-star but I won't say out of how
many stars."
Legislative arguments delay appropriations
College money problems continue
By RICK NELSON
Collegian Senior Reporter
Legislative argument over one per
cent is causing severe financial diffi
culties for three state-related univer
sities.
Temple University is the hardest hit by
a General 'Assembly impasse over
whether to grant Penn State, Temple and
the University of Pittsburgh a five or a
Birds of a feather...
The court hearing was called to
detetmine the circumstances of a White
House claim that a tape of Nixon's April
15 conversation with ousted White House
counsel , ,. John W. Dean 111 and an earlier
tape never existed.
Buzhardt 'attempted to show with
three witnesses that there was so much
conversation on April 15—an extra-busy
day in the Watergate crisis—that the
tape ran out on the unattended,
automatic recording device in the
President's office.
Buzhardt thus changed the story
slightly from Wednesday, when he
disclosed that two of the nine
subpoenaed recordings were never
made. He said then that a switching
device malfunctioned in the case of the
late-might conversation with Dean.
"The President was reviewing the
tapes himself," Buzhardt told a reporter
after court, placing the time within the
last two weeks. "He's the first one that
didn't find it (the Dean tape)."
"He called me in and said 'you check
" Buzhardt said. A detailed search
was instituted and "we were pretty sure
they were not there. Yesterday morning
I determined finally that they were not
there."
The last conversation on the tape was
between the President and former Atty.
Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst in the
afternoon, Buzhardt said. The
six per cent increase over last year's ap
propriations.
Temple officials Wednesday an
nounced the university had used its en
tire borrowing margin with banks and
was "in serious, serious circumstances."
Officials said if borroWing powers are
not extended or if state appropriations
are not approved this month, the univer
sity will not be able to meet next month's
payroll.
All three universities have reported
Timber!
Two cars were totally demolished
about 1:30 p.m. yesterday when a
fierce windstorm knocked over a
tree near East Pattee. No one was
injured in the freak accident, but
the tree broke powrges as it fell,
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conversation with Dean was from 9:17 to
10:12 p.m. that day.
Raymond C. Zumwalt, a Secret
Service technician, testified that a
computer print-out showed no one
entered the room where the recorders
were kept on either April 14 or 15.
15.
The tape is considered vital by the
Watergate special prosecution staff
because Dean testified his April 15
conversation with Nixon included the
President's whispered remark that he
was probably foolish in earlier
discussing an offer of executive
clemency for Watergate conspirator E.
Howard Hunt.
Bull, a special assistant to the
President, is one of three witnesses
scheduled to be called today in the
unusual hearing.
There was no explanation for a Roman
numeral one that appeared on the tape
box—a notation that Zumwalt said
sometimes indicated the first of two
reels.
U.S. District Court Judge John J.
Sirica called yesterday's hearing to get
the story of the non-existent tapes into
the public domain.
Haldeman told, the Watergate
committee that he had listened,
sometime between July 9 and 11, to a
recording of an earlier meeting between
Nixon and Dean. He said at that time he
borrowing money at a prime interest
rate near 10 per cent to maintain
operations in the absence of state fund
ing.
A Temple spokesman yesterday said,
"I certainly hope they (the legislature)
will approve the funding quickly." He
added if appropriations are not
News analysis
approved this month, Temple's situation
would be "quite disasterous."
"'We have already conducted very sub
stantial borrowing," he said.
The funding approval will be delayed
at least until Nov. 13 when the legislature
will reconvene from a recess that began
Tuesday.
The Temple spokesman said the
university is currently trying to get ap
proval from its board of trustees to ex
tend its borrowing margin.
He said he saw no danger of a need to
increase Temple's tuition this year.
A Penn State spokesman yesterday
confirmed reports that the UniVersity
has been paying $5,000 a day in interest
rates since Oct. 1. He said Penn State is
not faced with Temple's situation of a
fixed borrowing margin.
He indicated there has been no
discussion so far of raising Penn State
tuition for next term in light of the ap
propriaticms delay, but officials have
said the Board of Trustees could take this
step.
Legislative haggling over the amount
of state funding Penn State and the other
also received several other tapes but did
not listen to them. He said he got them
from Bull, took them home, kept them
for two days and returned them.
Zumwalt said his notes show Bull
checked out three tapes on July 10,
including two reels of the Sept. 15, 1972
conversations Haldeman said he had
heard. On the following day,-Zumwalt
said, Bull received six more tapes,
including the April 15 recordings.
"Do you" know wnetner or not a tape
recording of conversation between the
President and John Dean in the
Executive Office Building office on the
15th of April 1973 was given to Mr.
Haldeman in July this year?" asked
Richard, -Ben Veniste of the Watetgate
prosecution force.
"No," said Zumwalt.
On Wednesday, White House lawyer J.
Fred Buzhardt disclosed that two of the
nine tapes that prosecutors have fought
for so long never existed.
Weather
Partly sunny today with slight cnance
of a shower in the afternoon, high 54.
Tonight chance of rain, low 37. Saturday
variable cloudiness with few lingering
showers, high 55. Sunday colder with
flurries or showers possible in the
afternoon, high 40.
state-related universities should get has
continued since University President
John W. Oswald presented a nine per
cent appropriation increase request . to
the General Assembly in April. -
The House and Senate had little dif
ficulty coming to their respective five
and six per, cent increase recom
mendations for the state-related univer
sities. House Appropriations Committee
Chairman H. Jack Seltzer even com
mented in June that arriving at a final
figure for the universities should be easy
because of the slight difference between
the proposals.
But cries of playing politics have been
directed to and from both houses ever
since, and the.. universities now find
themselvesjour months into the fiscal
year without funds.
As the proposals now stand, the
Democratic-controlled Senate would
give Penn State $87.7 million, $806,000
more than the Republican controlled
House; Temple 52.9 million, $449,000
more than the House; and Pitt $48.2
million, $417,000 more than the House.
Senate Democrats have offered to ac
cept a five and a half per cent com
promise, but Republicans charged them
with political gamesmanship and have
refused to budge.
The Democrats contend the univer
sities need at least the one half per cent
increase over the House proposal to pay
interest fees concurred thus far.
Budget delays are not new to the
universities. Last year's appropriations
were not approved until Nov. 30, the last
day of the 1971-72 legislative session.
Photo by Ed Palsa