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Testimony by Eric R'hardson, for
mer executive assistant for Un
dergraduate Student Government
President George Cernusca, last night
suggested that- a second tape may exist
in the insurance scandal.
Richardson said he attempted to tape
a conversation with Arthur Williams,
former USG insurance adviser. But he
answered questions about that tape's
existence with "No comment."
Richardson said his unnamed legal
counsel advised him not to implicate
others in the USG Senate's special in
surance investigation hearings.
Richardson did admit to taping a May
23 conversation with USG office
secretary Clair Brown in the USG office.
That tape's existence was revealed
Tuesday and the tape was delivered to
the committee Wednesday night. '
Richardson said there was more than
one microphone in the room to pick ul3
Brown's conversation. But. Richardson
Greece reconsiders
NATO membership
ATHENS (UPI) Greece may
consider rejoining the military arm of
the North Atlantic alliance if its allies
help find a solution to the Cyprus
problem. a high, and unimpeachable
official source said yesterday.
But if no solution is found, the source
saki. Greece may yet go to war with
Turkey and may ask the United States to
ithdraw its military bases from Greek
territory.
At the same time, the source made
clear that Greece, despite its differences
nit') the United States, is not flirting
ith the Soviet Union and does not look
to Moscow to settle the Cyprus problem.
The source, who declined to be iden
tified, provided in a wide-ranging in
terview the first authoritative outline of
Greek policy since Turkey invaded
Cyprus last July and effectively par:
t:tioned the island republic,
Greece's first response to the invasion
was to withdraw from the- military arm
of NATO and accuse its allies of failing
to do all they could to head off the in
vasion.
"The decision to withdraw from the
military Side of the North Atlantic
alliance is definite," the source said.
Nixon displeased by funds cut
WASHINGTON (UPI) In what former President Richard
M Nixon reportedly considers a "begrudging attitude,"- a
Senate subcommittee voted yesterday to deprive him of more
than half of the $850,000 requested for his return to private life
and insisted none of it be spent for household servants.
The subcommittee voted unanimously to cut the request for
Nixon to 5328,000, a figure expected to be approved by the full
Senate Appropriations Committee next week.
The vote followed a disclosure before the subcommittee that
the government has been paying salaries amounting to
$420.4)00 a year for 22 employes on the payroll at Nixon's San
Clemente. Calif.. estate including a butler and maid.
An administration source meanwhile said that Nixon, now , ,
hospitalized, has been "very irritable " about the " begrudging,'asncan.'
Montoya said the subcommittee, in its report to the full co
=in
attitude" in government to deny him the special privileges af
mittfe, will insist that Nixon's federally paid staff confine its
forded all other former presidents. "He feels everyone is
giving him a hard time," the source added.
activities to "direct transition acts, rather than perform
' chores in the household..." V _t_'
The Senate subcommittee approved $55,000 for 11 months of However, the $12,000 a year butler's salary and thp $13,000 an-
Nixon's pension and $200,000 for one-shot transition expenses, nual federal paycheck for the maid are not affected ry the sub
such? as moving. But a requested $llO,OOO for a vault and committee's cuts.
guards to protect Watergate tapes and papers and $50,000 for The House Appropriations Committeeearlier t voted to
office equipment we cut. - , provide•only $398,000 of President Ford's requested $850,000 for
Staff members said the subcommittee felt that the 186 Nixon's transition expenses through next June 30.
COligiari
the
daily
USG, tape likely
would not say how many microphones
were in the office.
Richardson said he saw nothing
unethical in taping the, conversation- with
Brown. i He said h made the tape
because he was suspicious of an "im
migrant stink;" forces outside USG in
the insurance matter.
Richardson also testified about a
gatheringwhich took place at the end of
May in the USG office with former USG
president Mark Jinks, Richardson,
Cernusca, and an unknbwn man.
Jinks said the fourth man told him he
was involved in taping Brown and
Williams.
Richardson tonight identified the
fourth man as "Cliff." He said he did not
know Cliff's last name. He also said Cliff
was not a student and was not a State
College resglent.
Richardson refused to say how he
knew Cliff or why Cliff was present at
that gathering.
Richardtonrefused to answer a total
of 41 questions at the bearing. Richard
son was asked:
If he taped any conversation with
"But if our allies contribute to a just
solution of the Cyprus probjem, we do
not exclude the •reexamination by
Greece of its "position vis-a-vis the
alliance."
The source said Greece would accept a
solution providing for a federation of the
Greek and Turkish Cypriot com
munities, "provided it does not involve
the movement of popUlations and
provided• the Turkish cantonments are
related to the percentage of Turkish
Cypriot population."
But a federation based on the current
division of the island imposed by Turkish
arms would beocme in a few years time
a definite partition and therefore
unacceptable, the source said.
"We want a just soltition," he said.
"But if we do not get it We will fight.lWe
may go to war, and Mat is no joke:, No
people can expect such a blow and
humiliation."
The source expressed continuing
Greek dissatisfaction with the role of the
United States in the Cyprus crisis, and
suggested this could lead ,to a demand
for the removal of U.S. bases from
Greece.
Calley's release postponed
while Army ponders appeal
WASHINGTON (UPI) An appeals
court judge late yesterday delayed until
Monday the release of former Lt.
William L. Calley Jr., while the Army
considers appealing a federal court
ruling overturning Calley's conviction
for murder in the My Lai massacre in
Vietnam,
Chief Judge John R. Brown ok the sth
Circuit Court of Appeals in Ne*Orleans
ordered a four-day delay in carrying out
the direction of a lower federal court that
Calley be released "forthwith."
U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork
authorized the Army to seek ihe new
delay yesterday, and Brown granted a
temporary stay only minutes la
The Army sought a 15-day delay while
it considered the lower Court decision
issued Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge J. Robert Elliott of
Columbus, Ga., who overturned the con
viction and ordered Calley's immediate
unconditional release, had refused an Ar
my request that he stay his own order to
allow time to decide whether his, ruling
would be appealed.
A Justice Department spokesmaniaid
Brown acted within an hour after Elliott
Arthur Williams
If he' taped conversations with
anyone other than Claire Brqwn.
When he told George Cernusca
about the tape.
If he has any other tapes relevant to
the insurance matter..
Committee member .than McCarthy
said last night that any rumor con
cerning former Penn State football
player Franco Harris' stock investment
in a company involved in the case is not
based.on fact.
In separate action yesterday, USG
president George Cernusca introduced
two new members of his executive staff.
Tom Downing and Greg Lord were
appointed to the positions of press
secretary and executive assistant.
Cernusca's former executive
assistant, James Newton, resigned
Wednesday morning as a result of Cer
nusca's retusal to comply with a corn
mittee subpoena for a tape recording
concerning the insurance investigation.
Both appointees are graduate students
in political science. Downing received
his degree from Smith College. Lord has
served as Alabama field representative
in the presidential campaign of ' U.S.
Rep. Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey (R-
Calif I.
Downing said he is .to serve Cernusca
in , two capacities as a mouthpiece
when Cernusca is unavailable for
comment and as a sounding board to
Cernusca's political actions.
Lord said that as executive assistant
he will act as a personal adviser to
Cernusca and provide a counterbalance
of opinion and rationality to his , ad
ministration.
Cernusca said Lord's name might
come up for ratification at the next USG
Senate meeting.
Cernusca said his two new advisers
will be working closely with him in any
matters concerning USG, including the
insurance situation.
He also said he will consult them on
the audit of University spending:
Cernusca said he is extremely con
fident about the insurance investigation.
"We are riding the waves, but the
shore is in sight," he said.
Downing and Lord shared Cernusca's
optimism.
USG Vice President Marion Mientus
said :she had no part in the appointments.
Morning fog followV by partly sunny
days. Warm and more humid. High 69
to 74. Showers likely Friday night into
Saturday morning. Fair Saturday night. "
Lows both nights, 52 to 56.
chairs, 21 sofas and 77 typewriters which Nixon has already
received from the government should suffice.
The subcommittee also cut a requested $lO,OOO travel budget
to $3,000, trimmed a $35,000 communications request to $21,000
and reduced the "miscellaneous contingency" fund from
$26,000 to $3,000.
Subcommittee chairman Joseph Montoya, ° D-N.M., said
Budget Director Roy Ash prompted some of the cuts when he
tried to justify the expenditures for a maid and butler, saying
that with servants to shine his shoes and do the housework
Nixon was thus freed for activities involved in the transition of
power.
"Mr. Ash said that," Montoya said, "and we threw it in the
Weather
had turned down an Army motion for a
15-day stay. Elliott also refused an Army
request for clarification of his order that
Calley be given immediate unconditional
freedom.
The legal moves were needed to give
the Army time to study the legal issues
contained in Elliott's 132-page opinion in
the Calley case and decide whether to ap
peal his overturning of the conviction in
1971.
Army officials, after being turned
down by Elliott, went to Bork, the
solicitor general, for authority to make
the emergency appeal to Judge Brown.
The sth Circuit Court is based in New
Orleans but panels of the court travel
throughout its southeastern jurisdiction
to hear cases and conduct their business.
The Justice Department did not know
where the Army lawyers reached Judge
Brown.
Elliott's order to release Colley im
mediately was mailed to Ft. Leaven
worth Army disciplinary barracks Wed
nesday. The Army took the position that
it could not act on the court decision until
the order was in the hands of the
authorities who have Colley in custody.
Bork first figured in the news a year
ago when he fired Special Prosecutor Ar
chibald Cox on President Richard
Nixon's order after Attorney General
Elliot Richardson and his assistant,
William Ruckelshaus, resigned rather
Long inflation battle seen
WASHINGTON ( UPI) President Ford, preparing for
today's economic summit conference, was told by his
economic advisers yesterday that the battle against inflation
will take 18 months to three years.
Press Secretary Ron Nessen reported that prediction on the
eve of the long-heralded two-day conference of top economic
leaders from business, labor and government. He said Ford's
advisers also expressed the opinion that the nation is no longer
beset by fears of depression.
Nessen said Chairman Alan Greenspan of the Council of
Economic Advisers reported it may "take between a year and
a half and three years from the time we start until we have it
(inflation ) under control."
Asked to elaborate on Greenspan's prediction, Nessen said
he did not know precisely what was meant by the words "from
the time we start." He said he assumes Greenspan believes
some actions already have been taken and added "maybe I
should say from the time we started."
Nessen said Ford, who plans to attend most of the sessions
and speak at both the opening and the closing ceremonies, will
•have some recommendations of his own to propose. He did not
say what they would be.
He said both Greenspan and L. William Seidman, executive
director of the summit meeting, reported a general consensus
that the pre-summit discussions held throughout the country
during the past two weeks"have calmed the fears" of a'major
depression similar to 1932.
Prostitution remains a crime;\
but patron usually goes free
By BETH Bovp
Collegian Staff Writer
Editor's note: Following is the last of
a three-part series examining
prostitution in the State College area.
Some of the names have been
changed.
The first efforts to smother her
profession began 70 years ago, when
the popular image oflhe prostitute
was of a syphilitic nymphomaniac
who ran rampant through the slums
seducing weak, misguided boys.
Even though the moralistic view of
the 19th century has long since been
abandoned, in every state except one
anyone maintaining a business of
prostitution is a criminal.
Penalties for conviction vary from
state to state. They are as slight as
South Dakota's $lO fine and as severe
as the five years imprisonment that
threaten the prostitute in Rhode
Island and lowa.
In Pennsylvania, prostitution is a
misdemeanor of the third degree,
which means a convicted woman can
be fined as much as $2500. Arrests for
prostitution have been rare in State
College, as in most smaller com
munities across the country.
State College Police Sergeant Ken
neth Hannah could recall only three
arrests for prostitution in the last five
years. "„The crime has to have a vic
tim before we really go out and work
hard on it. Now if we get a complaint
on it, certainly we will act upon it, but
we don't send men out looking for
prostitutes," Hannah said.
The last conviction was in June,
1972 after a series of articles on the
business of sex were published in The
Daily Collegian. Two Pittsburgh
women were sentenced to two days in
jail by Centre County Court, and each
was fined $lOO.
"We really don't make a lot of
arrests in, that field. If we make an
arrest in that, it's because somebody
called in and complained," Borough
Police Officer Jones said. "Either the
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than do so..
The court order was mailed to Ft.
Leavenworth from Elliott's court in
Columbus, Ga., and the Army has taken
the stand it cannot act on the court
decision until the order is in the hands of
Ft. Leavenworth authorities.
"The court decree called for the Army
to release him (Calley) forthwith and we
hoped they would release - Ifim forth
with," said Kenneth Henson, one of
Calley's attorneys.
"WithirT a matter of three hours they
released 145 convicted deserters from
Leavenworth Prison pending a hearing
to determine how they would qualify un
der the President's clemency program."
Henson noted.
"I feel that Mr, Calley should be af
forded equal treatment at least," Henson
said. "Thpy've got a different set of rules
one setlfor draft, dodgers and deserters
and one set for one who willingly served
and willingly obeyed orders."
Calley contended fhroughout his court
martial that he nierely was Obeying or
ders when he and his men opened fire at
My Lai, which had previously been pin
pointed as Viet Cong stronghold. He
initially was sentenced to life im
prisonment for histrole in the massacre:
but this sentence was reduced to 10 years
through the military appeals process.
The 31-year-old ex-soldier sought fur
ther relief in civilian courts after
Greenspan testified yesterday in a meeting of the
Congressional Joint Economic Committee, and repeated his
views that no short-term solution to inflation is in sight
Greenspan apologized for his widely quoted statement last
week that stockbrokers had been hurt worse. relativel
speaking, by inflation than had the poor.
He said he had been misinterpreted, and added
the poor are suffering more "
• Nessen said an announcement will be made soon on
widespread reports that treasury Secretary William E Simon
will become the President's economic coordinator, and Seid
man will become Simon's deputy and Ford's economic policy
adviser at the White House.
The spokesman said Ford still is strongly oppOsed to wage
price controls, and will not ask Congress for rollback author) t 3
"because you can't have rollbacks unless you hive wage and
price controls."
In response to a question, he quoted Seidman as saying that
a tax break for the poor is one of a number of ideas under study
for easing the impact of inflation on low income groups.
- Nessen said he had discussed the economic outlook with both
Greenspan and Seidman. Greenspan, he said, feels the
greatest urgency is to reduce the present high level of inflation
which strains the entire economy.
He 'said Greenspan predicts that a start can be made on
meeting the inflation problem, bunt will take one and a half to
three years before it is brought under control.
chick had some disease or he didn't
get the service he paid for."
One of the reasonswhy there is such
a small number of arrests made is
because proof is difficult to obtain.
"You can be sitting in the bar and you
can see the chick. You see her leave
with a guy and come back in five
minutes and she can leave with
somebody else but you don't really
know what she's doing," Jones ex
plained.
Even if an officer suspects the
woman is a prostitute, he cannot en
courage or proposition a woman to
engage in sex for a price since "in
tentionally causing another to become
or remain a prostitute," according to
state law, is also a crime.
"It's pretty tough to catch one
unless she actually walks up and
solicits, you," Jones explained. The
woman must mention money before
she can be apprehended. If she does
not, all evidence against her is invalid
once she is in the courtroom.
Police claim the best they can do is
try to keep the problein under control.
"They know most of the police of
ficers in town," Jones said. "I
wouldn't call it a working relation
ship," but he added that the women
realize how difficult it is for the of
ficers to get sufficient incriminating
evidence that will hold up in court.
"I think the county handles it in the
manner that it should be. Fine them.
Give them probation, , and get rid of
them get them out of town," Han
nah said.
Though laws against the prostitute
herself are not strictly enforced,
police put forth even less effort to
'II punish the male participant.
Only six states have laws under
which police may 'arrest the patron.
Pennsylvania is one of them. But
there has never been an arrest of a
customer in State College.
Sociologist Kingsley Davis believes
the demand for the prostitute is so
broadly based that prostitution would
be harder to control if stronger action
exhausting his appeals route in the
military.
Elliott, in striking down the Calle% sen
tence, said: "If there ever has been a
case in which a conviction should he set
aside, this is it."
The judge said Callev had been the vic
tim during his trial of "unrestrained and
uncontrolled" prejudical publicity, that
the charges against him had been im
properly drawn and that he had not been
given the right to confront unfriendly xvit -
nesses.
In addition, Elliott contended in hi, 1.32
page ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court
had decided the Calley case when it held
that former President Nixon had to turn
over the Watergate tapes to
congressional investigators.
Nixon had claimed executive privilege,
but the high court ruled that the need to
get at the heart of the evidence in a
criminal proceeding took precedence
Calley had asked for hearing tran
scripts from a House Armed Services
Committee that investigated the - My Lai
affair, claiming they were vital to his
defense. The .committee refused to turn
them over on grounds of legislative
privilege.
"If we substitute the word 'legislative'
for the words 'presidential' or
'executive,' we see that the Supreme
Court in deciding the Nixon case also
decided the Callev case," Elliott ruled
were taken against the client
- It is economically and politically
foolish to punish a large number of
society's productive and otherwise or
derly members. It would cause more
social disruption than correcting the
alleged crime would be worth." I tai. ;s
claims.
Frequent attempts across the coun
try to limit prostitution have resulted
in failure, according to Davis. He said
he believes the answer lies in•legali
zing prostitution.
There is only one part of the country
that follows Davis' advice. In Nevada,
prostitution may be legal if a county
decides to take Advantage of this op
tion offered unddlOstate law.
The busiliess flourishes in 15 of
Nevada's 17,cpunties. There are quite
a few small . towns that welcome the
revenue from such establishments.
Storey County has fewer than 700
residents and the brothels' license
fees provide about one fifth of the
county's annual budget.
Amidst all the debate about the
business of sex there is one alter
native that is constantly overlooked
by legislators:. That of doing nothing.
The National Otganization for Women
and the Washington Commission on
the Status of Women believe
prostitution should cease to be a
criminal offense.
Venereal disease is the subject of
the most heated debates over
prghibition, legalization or
decriminalization of prostitution.
"Venereal disease is very low via
prostitution." Dr. J. Robert Wirag of
the Ritennour Health center said. "In
spite of what the vast majority of
people may think. Those girls are in it
for the business and they have
periodic cheCkups," Wirag explained.
Control of venereal disease is a
medical rather than legal problem, as
far as Washington Commission on the
Status of Women is concerned. "It is
not by blaming prostitutes that VD
will be controlled, but by educating
the public," the commission said.
obviously