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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 10, 1973
THE BATTALION
Political Card-Marking Queried In Sharp Case
By RICK BROWN
What’s this? John Mitchell testifying
upon subpoena from Frank Sharp’s law
yers? But the Watergate Hotel isn’t in
Sharpstown is it? Or did Frank Sharp
own the Watergate? Maybe he put it up
as collateral. I know, he’s the one that
loaned Nixon all that money for his houses.
But why would the Justice Department
wiretap his phone if he is a friend of the
President? Oh, I forget, Nixon taps every
body, even his own brother. He must have
a new Sony or something.
Wagonner Carr, former Texas Attorney
General, said shame on those nasty Republi
cans. He said the only reason he was.
prosecuted was because he was a Democrat,
never mind the fact that he might be guilty,
A Priority Question
By almost any standard one cares to use, America today
possesses the highest standard of living the world has ever
known. Yet, individuals have seemingly been lost some
where in the assembly line of a mass-production society.
Involvement in Viet Nam has shaken up America’s
foreign policy, while resources have dwindled due to ex
panded defense and social welfare programs. It’s beginning
to look like it will be necessary to give up some environmen
tal gains in order to keep up with soaring energy require
ments.
A re-examination of our personal and national priori
ties is going to be necessary if we are to develop as a “whole”
country in the future. This re-examination is the topic of
this spring’s nineteenth Student Conference on National
Affairs.
In an effort to consider a broad spectrum of re-ordering
priorities, SCONA workers have broken the topic down to
two broad categories: individual and national priorities.
In our highly industrial society, it seems that Americans
are beginning to shift away from mass-produced materialism
toward stronger inter-personal relations. Many questions
arise from this, such as will this trend lead to a revolution
ary new life-style? Does a man owe society anything? If
so, how great is his dept and how should he be forced to
pay?
In the national outlook, student delegates will be ana
lyzing America’s gradual shift to isolationism in contrast
to the pursuit of diplomatic relations with China and the
USSR.
As military cutbacks continue and governmental re
strictions on economic policy increase thought is being gen
erated as to the effects these will have on our military
posture and worsening market stability. High on the Amer
ican priority list, of course, is the increased need for energy
supplies and the threat this holds for an environment al
ready in jeopardy.
These are the basic elements for roundtable discussions.
No sweeping answers can be found for these issues in
SCONA. But, it will give students an opportunity to hear
and evaluate pertinent facts and opinions on each issue.
Hopefully, they will leave the conference with a better under
standing of the problems of our time.
Currently, SCONA committee members are screening
interested A&M students for participation in the conference.
Everyone has an opportunity to listen and some will get the
privilege of being delegates. If you are interested in being
a delegate, check by the MSC Student Programs Office for
an application to be a delegate.
Requirements aren't that a person be “Student Govern
ment material” because it doesn’t necessarily help in the
interviews. What counts is the “burning desire” to take an
active interest in the future of America.
Listen Up—
Turnabout Deemed Fair Play
For Corps Car Pranksters
Editor: investigation is done it could lead on this campus to be dealt with.
Everybody understands the to retaliation by Krueger-Dunn Mrs. Janice Kramer
parking situation on campus and residents. Turn about is fair play, ★ ★ ★
I am sure everyone feels some- and I don’t think the Corps would Editor:
thing needs to be done about it. like that too much. Corps students Re: Listen Up, Oct. 9, “I don’t
This includes the corps, civilian, wouldn’t sit back and let happen care what the peace queers think,
faculty and staff alike. But I feel to them what they are doing to I just want to kill some chinks.”
that bashing in the sides of cars. When I was four years old, I
slashing tires, and letting the air e .f & . ye , ea ls " would play army. I also had many
out of peoples tires is certainly cu . s f . a ^ 1 en ® an f 1 e a nursery rhymes and songs. At
not the answer. ^ y f prac ice, w y one t j me there was a verse “Eee-
I am referring to cars with a doe ^ n 11 he this problem out ny> meeny> minnie , mo » that I now
KD parking sticker on them that m ® open. eas warn rue- realize was quite a horrible slam
have to resort to parking in the pr-Dunn residents of what may upon a certain race. At the time
Corps parking lot because of lack h& ?^ n ^ th f r c& ™ ^ nothing is I sung it, I was ignorant to what
of space . . . eohie to be done about I was saying.
I agree with the police that it If some students feel that the Therefore, I ask for a little un-
would be a task to try and find toothpick problem at Sbisa is a derstanding, for some day those
out who the culprit is, but I feel problem (reference to letters to children will stop playing- army
that they are letting the problem the Battalion), I really hope that and realize they too didn’t really
go ignored. If no night patroling students will realize that there know what they were saying,
or guarding or spot checking or are far more important problems Casey Cutler ’76
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that is beside the point.
But that doesn’t sound right. Republi
cans prosecuting officials for being crooked.
And besides, it’s hardly fair prosecuting an
attorney general for being crooked, it’s all
backwards. I keep forgetting though, that’s
the way it works nowadays, witness
Mitchell. Why do they put possible crooks
in charge of catching crooks anyway ? May
be it just take one to know one.
Patrick Gray is being subpoenaed, too.
I didn’t know he was a Texan. John Osorio,
former state insurance commissioner, said
Gray, Mitchell and Assistant U.S. Attorney
General Peterson will prove that Osorio is
just an innocent victim of cruel Republican
persecution, which certainly wouldn’t be
anything new. But wasn’t Osorio found
guilty in court? Was it an all-Republican
court?
All these scandals are too confusing. Why
can’t those crooked Republicans stick with
ITT and all that far-away stuff and leave
Texas Democrats alone? Besides, we can’t
have any crooks in Texas government, we
haven’t had a Republican governor in a
hundred years. All the crooks are Republi
cans, aren’t they? I have even heard said
that Texas has the best politicians money
can buy. But how can one buy a politician?
It must be possible.
I talked to some milkmen who bought a
politician once, a real important one, too.
Say it was the best money they ever spent.
TRiS GOUNlkY
HAS TOO MW
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'DID YOU KNOW THAT IN 1970-71 I PAID THE SAME AMOUNT IN TAXES AS THE PRESIDENT?'
And they ought to know about money, what
with the way milk has been going up lately.
But Sharp doesn’t own any milk. He
owns a town. No, that’s not right. He
owns a bank. No, he doesn’t even own that
anymore, all those nasty crooks in Austin
took it away from him.
If the above sounds vaguely reminiscent
of the style of some Hollywood gossip col
umnists, I apologize. I hoped to capture
the mood of the sometimes childish denunci
ations, accusations and excuses offered by
officials caught in the act of being some
what less than public spirited.
U.S. officials and former officials sub
poenaed to testify on Justice Department
handling of the Sharpstown scandals were
brought to court by lawyers of Osorio and
Carr. They requested the subpoenas in
hopes that testimonies would indicate parti
sanship in the methods used by the U.S.
Attorney General’s office in handling the
affair, specifically regarding immunity
granted Sharp in return for testimony im
plicating his cohorts in the operations. That
may be true.
The Justice Department should handle all
cases on their legal, not political merits. 11
the present hearings do in fact indicate
that political considerations figured heavily
in the Sharpstown Bank prosecutions, then
presumably the judgments could be re
versed, not because the defendants are any
less guilty, but because the Justice Depart
ment isn't all that saintly either. No one
should be denied his constitutional rights,
but two wrongs do not make a right and
the guilty are not made innocent through
their prosecutor’s ineptitude.
Sharp said he was the biggest loser in
the whole Sharpstotwn deal. But, that is
a lie, of course. Because when we get
crooks in government, at any level, the
biggest loser, the real loser, is you, my
fellow voter.
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