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THE BATTALION
Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 7, 1973
Watergate Study
Upsets FBI Head
WASHINGTON <A>>—L. Patrick
Gray III warned senators Tues
day they run the risk of drying
up FBI sources if they continue
to spread details of the Water
gate investigation on the public
record.
He also said he would have
preferred that White House coun
sel John Dean III not be pzesent
while FBI agents interviewed
White House personnel in the Wa
tergate case but that he acceded
because the information was need
ed.
Gray said the senators, mem
bers of the Judiciary Committee,
had reached the point in his con-
firmation hearing for director of
the FBI where “I may be impact
ing upon national security, con
stitutional due process and the
right to privacy as I respond to
questions.”
Gray, who has served as act
ing FBI director since May 3 last
year, asked the committee’s guid
ance “in order that matters of
national security are not discuss
ed in the public forum.”
“People will talk to the FBI,”
he said. “The proof is here in
this Watergate investigation.
They will and they did furnish
information one-on-one with our
agents at their own request, but
they will not continue to do so
if we continue to spread this in
formation on the public record.”
FBI summaries submitted to
the committee while it was in
recess Monday showed that Dean
sat in on interviews which the
FBI had with White House per
sonnel about the bugging of Dem
ocratic party headquarters at the
Watergate last year.
At the White House, deputy
press secretary Gerald L. War
ren said the White House staff
“completely and thoroughly co
operated” with the FBI investi
gation. He pictured Dean as hav
ing been helpful to the FBI in
expediting scheduling of inter
views.
Dean headed a White House
probe of the Watergate affair.
The FBI summary of the first
month of inquiry, made public
Monday, mentioned the Nixon
campaign committee. It quoted an
unidentified source from within
the Committee for the Re-election
of the President as telling agents
that campaign officials “were
sending FBI agents on fishing
expeditions to keep them from
getting the truth.”
“Unless you . . . become like
children, you shall never enter
the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Aw c’mon, J.C., can we really
be like children ? Not now, es
pecially since we are big, frown
ing adults. Like Ms. Helen Red
dy said in her dumb little song,
“I know too much to go back
and pretend.”
Well, I don’t think it will
cause any sort of rush on the
Pearly Gates by the populace of
America, but I just listened to
something that made me feel
like I was close to doing it, close
to becoming like a child. It was
“Holland,” the Beachboys’ new
album. The trick in becoming
like a child is to do this without
losing any knowledge or under
standing. In fact, the trick is to
do so by gaining, not losing.
“Holland” was recorded in the
lowlands of the same name, but
don’t worry, the songs are still
about Southern California. Ex
cept for “Sail on Sailor” (the
radio song that was composed by
Van Dyke Parks in the pre-
“Surf’s Up” days) all the new
album’s songs are Beachboy orig
inals. And except for “Leaving
This Town,” the weakest cut on
the record, they’re all by the
three Wilson brothers and their
cousin Mike Love.
When you listen to “Holland,”
play side two first. It opens with
five year-old-Wendy Wilson’s
“Hi!” which leads into “Trader,”
my favorite track. Except for
one brief drag (“Leaving This
Town”) the whole side flows un
interrupted, smooth and familiar
yet always complex just under
the surface.
Most of the other side is taken
by a three - part “California
Saga.” The first and third parts
are two more additions to the
B.B.’s endless chain of tributes
to Sunny California. The saga’s
third part, called simply “Cali
fornia,” runs through so many
snatches of near-identifiable mel
odies, that afterward I felt like
I had listened to two or three
old B.B. albums, rather than just
one song.
But the second paxt of the
saga, “The Beaks of Eagles,” is
the one; the one that concerns
so much more than eagle beaks.
It is a song interwoven with a
poem by Robinson Jeffers. “The
Beaks of Eagles” is filled with
seemingly clashing thoughts, but
they’re only splinters off the
same log. I don’t usually try to
interpret songs, since everyone
has their own views and no one
is all right or all wrong. But this
one is too easily overlooked in
its beautiful package.
A few weeks ago, one of their
fellow Californians, Dr. Paul
Saltman, a genetics prof at the
University of California, spoke
here at A&M. Though his speech
was science oriented he began by
stating some acts of faith neces
sary for undertaking any in
depth scientific study. Basically,
these were: there is order to the
universe, and secondly, it is good
for man to know this order. This
is the subject of “The Beaks of
Eagles.”
In order to believe the song
when it says, “Man’s needs and
nature are no more changed in
10.000 years than the beaks of
eagles [are changed],” one has
to not only accept an exact or
derliness of a largely unknown
universe, but also one has to
disregard as superficial all the
changes civilization has brought
about, both good and bad. This
acceptance of a lack of under
standing, is the key to becoming
like a child.
And I can’t help thinking of
this book I read about a philoso
phy teacher who lived around
2.000 years ago. When some
dudes asked him where the King
dom of God was, this teacher
told them not to bother to look
around, because it was “within
you.” And I can’t help seeing
Siddhartha sitting on the river
bank, hearing all the sounds of
his life in the deep voice of the
river. And then I listen to the
last line of “The Beaks of
Eagles,”
“A whisper of the word will
let you soar with your soul.”
And I feel like it was I, not
Wendy Wilson, that said “HI!”
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