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USG veep offer
By SHEILA McCAULEY
Collegian Stafriter.
Albert Mische, a 56-year -old adjunct
student, last night said lk has accepted
an offer to be vice president designate of
the Undergraduate Student Govern
ment.
Mische said USG President George
Cerntisca offered him the position last
Thursday, the same day he accepted. He
said at that time Cernusca'expressed his
intention to call a press conference today
to announce the choice.
Cernusca denied he had decided on a
designate. He said he still was con
sidering three people for the position. He
later said two of those people were
Mische and Jim Maza (10th-pre-law).
Cernusca did say Mische showed in
terest in USG and was "capable and
experienced." He also ; ;said he was
confident Mische could assume the vice
presidency.
Maza, the second person Cernusca
named, said he was awarr he was under
consideration for the vice presidency,
but would not comment .further:
Mische, a former UniverSity employe
in Mailing Services last year endorsed
USG's audit efforts. He said an audit
would reveal that some University
department's were making a profit.
Mische also appeared briefly at the
USG Senate Select Insurance Com
mittee's hearings. Mische testified that
on May 1. he saw Cernasca talking to
insurance representativekßryan Hondru
of the Frank B. Hall and Co. Cernusca
had claimed Hondru offered him ; a bribe
at the time Mische saw them talking. •
Cernusca would not name the third
person he claimed,he is considering for
his vice president. He said his choice
would "raise eyebrows, especially in Old
Main."
Last night's S4nate action included
two more resignations, those of Scitith
Halls Senator Lynn Heibling and North
Halls Senator Joanie Mccarthy.
Heibling cited personak health and
academic resons for her•_- resignation.
Coal negoti
WASHINGTON (UPI) Negotiators
for coal producers and the _United Mine
Workers agreed to resume bargaining
yesterday after the White House urged
that they try to avert what one union of
ficial described as an "inevitable" coal
strike Nov. 12.
The two sides arranged to get together
at 9 p.m. (EST) in a downtown hotel. The
agreement to resume bargaining
followed separate • meetings with
President Ford's chief labor trouble
shooter. William J. Usery Jr.
Spokesmen for both sides indicated the
industry, at last night's meeting, offered
a counterproposal to the union's
economic package presented Saturday.
Usery told reporters earlier in the day
that he did not think a strike was
necessarily inevitable, and that "the
holdup is trying to get an atmosphere and
trying to get a meeting going."
Apparently relying on Usery's efforts,
White House Press Secretary Ron
Nessen told reporters that FOrd believes
"talk of a coal strike is premature." He
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McCarthy said she could not work any
longer for USG because she no longer
believed in it.
Cernusca said those involved in USG
who resigned for other than health
reasons were "cowardly." He com
mended those involved in USG who had
"stayed and fought" .nd had resisted
the pressures and criticisms which
resulted from the USG impeachment
matter.
In other Senate action last night, the
Senate defeated a motion to impeach
-and remove Cernusca from his seat on
the USG Executive Council.
Several senators accused Cernusca of
taping Council meetings without the
knowledge of the other Council mem
bers. The Senators also said Cernusca
- had missed several Council meetings.
Cernusca denied the first charge, and
said he had missed only one meeting,
last Sunday's.
The Senate also set up a USG In
surance Commission which will consist
of a three-member Senate ad hoc
committee, an insurance bureau and a
group of advisers.
The ad hoc committee will recom
mend to the _full Senate an insurance
plan on which different companies will
bid. The committee alqo will recommend
its three choices of bidders to the
Senate, and will submit the lowest
bidding company for discussion even if it
is not one of the commission's three
choices.
The Senate also revised its agenda in
order to overcome the problem of
missing quorums whiCh have occurred
in the last two weeks.
The new agenda calls for old business
immediately after opening roll call and
Senate committee meetings before
Opening roll call.
Former USG Vice President Marian
Mientus's resignation took effect at 8
last night. Mientus thanked the student
body and everyong in USG for giving her
the opportunity to serve as vice
president.
'.also said it was "much, much too
premature" to discuss whether Ford
might invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to
postpone a strike.
But UMW Secretary-Treasurer Harry
Patrick disagreed with Nessen. Asked if
'he believed that a strike is inevitable, he
replied "that's my judgment."
A long strike could have "a very
serious impact" on the nation's already
shaky economy, said Albrt Rees, head
of the President's Council on Wages and
Stability. Even a brief shutdown could
boost inflation by damaging industrial
production.
Usery first talked Monday to UMW
President Arnold Miller, who led his
negotiating team out of the talks Sunday
night and accused the coal operators of
refusing to discuss economic issues.
Usery then met with Gut Fa4mer, chief
negotiator for the operators.
Later in the day„ Usery, Patrick and
Farmer were seen entering the hotel
where the suspended negotiations had
been held. Miller, however, appeared to
be absent.
Collegian Phow
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Hunt's testimony supported
with '.ombshell document'
WASHINGTON (UPI) The chief
Watergate cover-up trial prosecutor
dramatically disclosed yesterday a long
sought "bombshell document" accusing
the Nixon administration of failing to
provide promised money and pardons for
the seven Watergate break-in defend
ants.
The document, while containing little
new information, apparently served, to
authenticate the testimony of its author,
E. Howard Hunt Jr., a mastermind of the
Watergate bugging and a key witnes in
the cover-up trial of five former aides of
President Richard M. Nixon.
The memo also apparently spelled
serious legal problems for William, 0.
Bittman, Hunt's former lawyer andl an
unindicted co-conspirator in the trial,
who had testified repeatedly before in
vestigators that he had never received it.
, •
James F. Neal's disclosure of the
document, made before the jury of eight
blacks and four whites entered the court
room, highlighted the trial's 25th day,
during which Jeb Stuart Magruder,
Nixon re-election deputy director anti a
key prosecution witness, finished his
testimony after five days on the stand.
Robert A. F. Reisner, Magruder's for
mer ,administra4ve assistant and now
director of pOlicY planning for the De
partment of Housing and Urban Develop
ment, also testified briefly.
Neal said he would call three FBI a
gents Tuesday to testify about false
statements allegedly made by former At
torney General and campaign director
John N. Mitchell, and John D. Ehrlich
man, Nixon's former No. 2 aide, both
defendants in the cover-up trial.
Other defendants on trial for con
spiracy to cover up top-level involvement
in the Watergate bugging are former
Nixon chief of staff H. R. Haldeman, for
mer Aisistant Attorney General Robert
C. Mardian and-Kenneth W. Pirkinson,
who did legal work for the Committee to
Re-Elect the President.
Thomas Green, lawyer for Mardian,
questioned Magruder and Reisner in
detail about the events around the time of
the June 17, 1972, arrests at the
Watergate.
Magruder testified about telephone
calls he received and made in California
that morning to G. Gordon Liddy, also! a
Watergate mastermind. Magruder said
he believes that at Mitchell's suggestion,
Mardian called Liddy in Washington to
see if Attorney General Richard G.
Kleindienst could free the five members
of the burglary team from jail.
"There is a possibility that this call is a
figment, of your imagination?" Green
asked.
"That is absolutely untrue," Magruder
replied.
S. Allen
the approved lane will be used.
Council tabled a proposal to put similar
lanes along Calder Alley paralleling
College Avenue. Police Chief Elwood
Williams said delivery trucks unloading
in the alley make bicycle movement im
practical.
The bicycle lanes stem from a bicycle
study conducted last spring which
recommended lanes on South Allen' and
other streets in the borough. The original
study by the Student Environmental
Counciling Organization (SECO) recom
mended a lane be built from College
Avenue, along Easterly Parkway to
Waupelani Drive.
Council •members have been reludtant
to remove parking from the first block of
South Allen between College Avenue and
Beaver Avenue. Local merchants have
openly opposed the move.
Council members last night referred to
the approved bicycle lanes as an "ex
periment" and the council hinted that
p fu r t o ure se b_ik a e ne la ,s nesmay depend on the
resum d success.
Next month, the Council will recon
sider the Calder Alley proposal. A group
of Speech 200 students last night • an-
Farmer later told reportersoKa was nounced their own findings that the route
a possibility the two sides might get back is impractical.
together :shortly 'and that negotiators A group spokesman suggested
might reach agreement on a new con-, e, elimination of parking on one side of
I tract before Nov. 12 too late to block College Avenue for a west-bound bike
strike, bait soon enough to increase
chances a walkout would be fairly sh9rt.
The two 'Odes had appeared very close)
By DAVE SHAFFER
Collegian Staff Writer
The parking lanes on • South Allen
Street should soon be the official
domain of the bicyclist. '
The State College Borough Councißast
night approved the elimination of present
parking on the street between Nittany
Avenue and Easterly Parkway and the
painting of a special lane restricted to
bicycle use.
The parking will be eliminated im
mediatelY, but painting may be delayed
until as late as next spring due to the cold
temperatures, according to Donald Dor
neman, director of public worki.
The bitcle lanes will be five feet wide,
running n both sides of the road.
Councilman Dean Phillips requested
an extension of the lane past Easterly
Parkway Ito Solath Atherton Street, but
Council decided to wait to see how much
to agreement on a new contract before
the breakdown Sunday night, according;
to sources close to the talks, and Miller;
said a walkout was not absolutely
inevitable.
There appeared little chance, however,!
of preventing at least a short strike byl
120,000 miers in 25 states who supply 701
per cent of the nation's soft coal .
I Weather
Cloudy, cool, and rainy today. High 58,
Rain ending late tonight, and becoming
breezy. Low 41. Continued Mostly cloudy,)
breezy, and cool tomorrow with. the)
chance of a few lingering showers. Higlr
55.
The memo said that the seven defend
ants had not wanted to break into the
Democratic headquarters in the
Watergate either on Memorial Day
weekend of 1972 or the following June 17
because-Democratic National Chairman
Lawrence O'Brien was rarely in his of
fice.
"Ohlections were overridden and the
attempt was loyally made," Hunt wrote.
The memo said the defendants' spon
sors "compounded the fiasco" by in
decisiveness, failure to qdash the initial
investigation, permitting an FBI in
vestigation of "unprecedented scope and
vigor," permitting defendants to fall into
the hands of "a paranoid judge" a
reference to presiding Judge John J.
Sirica failure to provide promised sue:
port funds, and "an apparent wash
hands attitude now that the election has
been won."
"The administration, however,
remains deficient in living up to its com
mitments," the memo said. "These com
mitments were and are: 1. finance sup
port, 2. legal defense fees, 3. pardons, 4.
rehabilitation."
International food parley
to hear . Kissinger speech
ROME (UPI) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew to
Rome yesterday to give the keynote speech at a conference
called at his own urgent suggestion which will consider how to
feed the world.
Kissinger scheduled meetings with Pope Paul VI, Italian
President Giovanni Leone and other Italian officials before his
address today to the 1,000 delegates to the United Nations
World Food Conference.
The conference was convened at Kissinger's request to
tackle the problem of how to better feed a world in which one
out of four people is undernourished.
Hundreds of police surrounded Rome's Ciampino airport for
Kissinger's arrival. Leftists have accused Kissinger of med
dling in Italian affairs. American-affiliated firms in Rome
have been bombed for the past three nights, though nobody has
been hurt.
The secretary of state flew to Rome from talks in Yugoslavia
with Prqsident Josip Broz Tito. Kissinger was spending only 24
hours in the Italian capital before starting a three-day tour of
the Middle East in his continuing effort to bring about peace
negotiations between the Arabs and Israelis.
Kissinger announced in Yugoslavia that he would follow up
his Middle East tour Tuesday through Thursday with a visit to
Turkey on Friday and Saturday in search of a settlement of the
Cyprus conflict.
The Turks have a 40,000-man invasion army on Cyprus.
Kissinger will try to persuade them to start cutting back on
this garjson. Turkey is irked at the U.S. Congress for voting to
cut off military aid, though President Ford so far has managed
to block any such cutoff.
St. bike
Ford urges
WASHINGTON (AP) As
Republicans braced for major off-year
Democratic gains, President Ford urged
Americans to vote Cosshow confidence in
the nation's political system —a system
struggling with economic woes and
shaken by scandal.
"You will not . just be voting for
Democrats or Republicans," Ford said
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ye,sterday. "You will be casting your
vote of confidence in the United States of
America."
Ford's election-eve statement from the
i i White House Rose Garden did not men
tion Watergate. But it was implicit in the
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The memo also pointed out that the lawyer for the Committee to Re-Elect the
Watergate bugging was "only nne of a President. immediately asked for a
number of highly illegal conspiracies mistrial. Judge Sirica denied the
engaged in by one or more of the defend- Haldeman motion, and did not act on the
ants at the behest of senior White House Parkinson motion pending his con
officials." sideration of the circumstances of calling
It also pointed out that."congressional Hunt back to the stand.
elections will take place in less than two •
Courtroom observers said the memo
years." provided little new information. But it
"Half measures will be unacceptable:" serves, they said, to "rehabilitate" Hunt.
the memo said. who has admitted he has lied in the past,
as a witness, and it poses new problems
"The foregoing should not be misin- for Bittman, one of 20 unindicted co
terpreted as a threat. It is among other conspirators in the case.
things a reminder that loyalty has' Neal admitted he was upset and em
always been a two-way street." barrassed by the disclosure, which he
Hunt had said he made no copies and said caught the prosecutkin by as much
did not know where the memo was. With surprise as it did defense lawyers.
the jury of eight blacks and four whites Neal and Bittman are past colleagues
out of the courtroom, Neal said Bittman in the prosecution of former Teamsters
disclosed to him during the weekend that President James R. Hof fa. Bittman
he had received the memo which he prosecuted him for mail fraud in Chicago
characterized , as a "bombshell and Neal in Nashville for jury tam
document" but had not divulged this to pering.
the grand jury or the special prosecutor. Meanwhile, former White House aide
Lawyers for defendants H. R. Jeb Stuart Magruder, who was deputy
Haldeman, former White House chief of
staff, and Kenneth W. Parkinson, former
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lanes approved
lane, with east-bound bicycle traffic
routed on Calder Alley.
The SECO report to Council last spring
also suggested bike lanes along College
and Beaver Avenues, but said alleys
make poor routes because of the
necessity for bicyclists to cross traffic at
intersections.
Councilman Edwin Frost, reluctant to
approve the lane, said most bike ac
cidents have occurred at intersections
and not along South Allen Street. He later
voted for the proposal.
Councilman Dean Phillips said
bicycling in present parking lanes can
become a "fearsome experience" when
the cyclist is caught between a passing
car and a parked car.
The borough still will allow cars to stop
and unload on the bike routes, but other
legal implications, such as restrictions
on automobile crossing into the bike
lanes, were left to the borough solicitor
for consideration.
Also at last night's meeting, the Coun
cil postponed decision for the third time
on the Planned Residential DevelopMent
re-zoning of a tract of land next to the
Centre Hills Country Club.
The 33-acre tract is owned by the 322
Corporation. For the past three months
owners have sought a rezoning from
present single-family R-1 to the PRD.
The development as. proposed would con
.
'vote of confidence'
prospect of a voter backlash facing his
Republican party.
The final Associated Press survey
shows Democrats have a chance at two
thirds control of both the House and
Senate and a record number of gover
norships in the first election to feel the"
full brunt of the Watergate scandal and
the natioii's economic problems.
Some surveys, indicated a record low
turnout of less than 40 per cent, a figure
cited by Ford in his message.
SENATE The Democrats have a
good chance of holding all 20 of their own
seats up for re-election, and to gain from
five to seven of the 19 Republican seats at
stake.. This could mean a new Senate
director of Nixon's re-election com-
'mittee, was on the stand for his fifth day
"I am here to express the American point of view" about the
world food situation, Kissinger said at the airport.
Kissinger was expected to make a new appeal to the oil ex
porting countries to help pay for feeding the hungry of the
world. In Brussels, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz said not
only the oil producers but also the Soviet Union should take
part in a new world food organization.
The latest developments in the Middle East gave Kissinger
faint hope for a definitive settlement there. The Arab countries
decided last month to recognize the Palestine Liberation
Organization as sole spokesman for the Palestinian people.
Israel has refused to negotiate with the PLO.
On departing from Belgrade, Kissinger said, "The United
States would like to do its best to prevent a stalemate in the
Middle East from developing."
A communique issued at the end of the Belgrade visit said
Kissinger had presented Tito with a message from President
Ford but did not disclose its contents.
Anarchists and neo-Fascists staged rival demonstrations
against and in support of Kissinger. Police allowed neither
group-near the Excelsion Hotel where the secretary of state
was staying with more than 100 special agents on guard.
One anarchist group passed out leaflets saying Kissinger's
visit "verifies the servile obedience of the Italian government
to the interests of the U.S.A."
Young neo-Fascists passed out other leaflets that said,
"Throughout the world, beginning in Moscow, Kissinger's trip
progressed without incident. Only here in Italy this visit
became the pretext for a mobilization of red warriors! which
the government tolerated and authorized."
sist of about 130 single family homes in
cluding two sections of row housing.
Council officially closed the public
hearings and is scheduled to make a final
decision at next month's meeting.
The postponement resulted from the
owner's request that a report from the
Centre Regional Planning Staff be con
sidered before final decision.
Borough Planning Commission Chair
man Wallis Lloyd first appeared before
Council to reiterate the Commission's
recommendations concerning the
development recommendations to
which the 322 Corporation made written
''objections.
Lloyd said the commission opposed the
placement of the 14 proposgd row houses
next to a single-family residential area.
He also questionetl the off-street parking,
which would require 'home owners to
park a considerable distance from their
homes. He did not hack down on any of
the commission recommendations.
322 Corporation Attorney Padl Mazza
asked Centre Region Planning Director
Ron Short if his planning staff had'ap
proved the PRD. Short said the staff
report was foreworded to the planning
commission and that it was not part of
Proper channels to submit it to Council. f
Council then agreed to put the, report
on the record and consider it before final
decision.
with 63 to 65 Democrats, compared with
the present 58-42 margin.
HOUSE Democrats could gain as
many as 50 seats and probably no less,
than 30 if pre-election trends hold. nay
now have a 248-187 edge, and a sweep of
close races could mean a House majority
rivalling the 295-140 edge they achieved
in Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide.
GOVERNORS Already holding 32 of
the 50 governorships, Democrats ap
peared likely to gain from six to as many
its 10 state houses now controlled by
Republicans. The record for the most
governorships held by one party is 39
Dethocrats in 1939.