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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, November 17, 1972
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By TERENCE P. YORKS
George McGovern has another
serious mistake left to make. To
be certain, he made enough dur
ing his campaign, but he is a sen
ator now, as indeed he has been,
and he, like most of the rest of
that august body, has forgotten
it.
Frank Church spoke here al
most two years ago on the issue
of the place of the President and
of the Congress.
He noted the Constitution’s
specificity on the issue, since it
was instituted primarily to pre
vent a rule by kings. The Congress
was to be elected, by the people
and was to make all of the laws.
The executive was only to carry
them out, to execute them.
But the very meaning in of
executive common usage has
changed since 1787, and very few
people are aware of that change.
Through business usage of the
term and the manipulations of a
multitude of presidents, it has
come to mean "one who makes de
cisions.”
The office of the Presidency
happily continues to nurture this
new use of the term. The meaning
and the intent of the Constitu
tion are thus ignored, but they
remain unchanged, a warning to
us if we can see it.
Richard Nixon has been more
blatant in his overstepping of
original limitations than perhaps
any other man occupying his of
fice, for he is the first to openly
try to re-orient the budget after
its approval by the Congress.
He now has what he can (if
foolishly) consider to be a man
date behind him. The Senate has
been successful twice before in
blocking incompetents chosen by
the President from taking office
within the Judiciary. It will re
I Batt News Summary
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUNEAU, Alaska — The help
less Coast Guard cutter Jarvis
was towed to an area of relative
safety in Alaska’s stormy Aleu
tian chain Thursday by a Jap
anese trawler which officials say
kept the craft from being beached.
Rescue came after the Jarvis
sent an SOS late Wednesday when
what it called “mountainous seas”
flooded the engine room, silencing
both jet engines and standard
diesel power plants.
Henry A. Kissinger in the next
few days. There was no official
word on the date of Kissinger’s
arrival in Paris.
PARIS — On the eve of Hanoi
peace negotiator Le Due Tho’s
return to Paris, North Vietnam
warned the United States Thurs
day it will reject any major
changes in the draft peace agree
ment.
Tho is due here from Moscow
Friday and is expected to resume
his secret negotiations with Pres
ident Nixon’s security adviser
LOS ANGELES — Reporter
William Farr was sentenced to
an indefinite jail term Thursday
for refusing to disclose the source
of a story he wrote while covering
the Charles Manson murder trial.
Superior Court Judge Charles
H. Older ordered Farr confined
to county jail after Farr said
he would not answer the judge’s
questions.
Older ordered Farr confined to
jail until the newsman agrees to
answer the court’s questions un
der oath.
mates assaulted three guards,
seized the maximum security
block and set fire to mattresses.
The rebelling inmates held the
block for nearly three hours.
PHILADELPHIA — State Po
lice used tear gas Thursday to
quell a brief disturbance at the
huge Eastern State Correctional
Institution near here after in-
WASHINGTON—The Western
Allies Thursday invited five Com
munist bloc countries to join them
Jan. 31 to prepare a conference
on troop cuts in central Europe.
The United States sent indi
vidual notes to four countries of
the eastern bloc: the Soviet Un
ion, Hungary, Poland and Czech
oslovakia. Similar notes to the
same four were dispatched by the
foreign offices of Britain, Canada,
West Germany, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg.
An invitation to East Germany,
a country with which the United
States has no diplomatic rela
tions, was sent by the West Ger
man government.
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main to be seen if they can rise
to his new challenges as he enters
his second term.
This is where George McGov
ern is almost bound to make his
second set of mistakes. He, like
Ted Kennedy and Edmund Muskie,
is under the executive spell, and
even the best of his moves have
been conditioned by the possibili
ties of one day obtaining the
overgrown powers of the chief
executive for himself.
If he, and the others who pos
sess at least some degree of char
isma, were to recognize their
place as does Frank Church, and
see to a new ascendency of pow
er within the legislature itself,
we could see the most important
move in our government since its
earliest days.
One real possibility for such
an event has been proposed by
those who’ve watched Nixon
greatly overestimate his national
status and blatantly usurp au-
ISA Debate
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of sabotage,” said Mack, a gradu
ate of the University of Munich
working on a Ph.D. in agricultural
economics. “We have to judge
Allende not by the state of Chile
today but by the state 10 years
from now.”
“Sabotage is a myth Allende
has used to gain support,” said
DeCastro, a management major
from Brazil. “Allende is just
inches away from bankruptcy and
Chile is considered a poor credit
risk by other nations.”
Refereeing for the debate was
economics professor Alan Rufus
Waters.
thority. They favor a call for im
peachment.
I just cannot see Richard Nix
on as trying anything openly
enough as to bring this about.
He listen to his polls, which can
not help but tell him that his
landslide is not one of support,
but of the erosion of acceptable
alternatives.
His moves are more of the
quiet kind, like the spreading
about of monies in ways that the
lawmakers did not intend, and in
areas of lower visibility, like his
single-handed repeal of lawful
abortion in military hospitals.
So we must again return to the
issue of leadership on Capitol
Hill. After November 8, we Tex
ans have hardly helped the upper
house regain its place. One can
just see the unleashed dishrag,
John Tower, leaping to his feet
in the Senate to censure the Pres
ident at whose feet he has bowed
in worship or to second a recamp
ing of our misplaced legal struc
ture.
There are still real representa
tives, though, and people like
Barbara Jordan are outstanding
examples.
I do not feel that the system
will go berserk, that Nixon will
so cement his business backings
that his power will continue un
abated after four more years
for there is too much time for
him to make mistakes and too
many good people who still will
stop him.
I just feel that it is sad that
those who should be our leaders
aren’t, and do not even really
realize that they could and should
be.
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