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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY. JANUARY 31, 1974
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Nixon su bpoena awa its
California judge signature
LOS ANGELES <A>) — A sub
poena ordering President Nixon
to testify personally in the Ells-
berg burglary case is awaiting
the signature of a California state
judge following his ruling that
the President is a material wit
ness.
The unprecedented subpoena
was drafted and delivered to Su
perior Court Judge Gordon Ring
er late Tuesday by attorneys for
John D. Ehrlichman who re
quested Nixon’s appearance.
The Ehrlichman defense team
said that Nixon’s attorney ear
lier declined their request to have
the President testify voluntarily.
Ehrlichman was Nixon’s top do
mestic adviser until he resigned
in the wake of the Watergate
cover-up.
Ringer, who said this would
be the first time a President has
been subpoenaed by a state court,
said he will sign the subpoena by
Friday. The subpoena commands
Nixon to appear at a pretrial
hearing Feb. 25 and at the trial
April 15.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Ehrlichman, joined in his mo
tion by Liddy and Young, wants
the President to testify about the
formation of the secret White
House investigations unit known
as the “plumbers” and about pres
idential orders concerning a probe
of Pentagon papers figure Daniel
Ellsberg.
The three former White House
employes were indicted last Sep
tember for the 1971 break-in at
the Beverly Hills office of Ells-
berg’s psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis
Fielding. The break-in allegedly
was carried out by persons hired
by the plumbers and instructed
to copy Ellsberg’s psychiatric rec
ords.
The head of the plumbers unit,
Egil “Bud” Krogh Jr., was also
indicted but charges against him
were dropped when he pleaded
guilty to a related charge in
Washington. He is scheduled to
begin serving a six-month prison
sentence next week.
Dalton’s request that Nixon be
subpoenaed to appear personally
was joined by prosecutor Stephen
Trott. Both sides opposed the
alternative — having Nixon an
swer through written interroga
tories.
“My plan is to take the same course under two different
teachers, and take the highest grade and drop the lowest.”
Dalton said testimony sought
from Nixon would concern his
statements to the plumbers about
the urgency of plugging leaks of
secret information, “the fact that
he impressed this on the unit.”
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Kuntsler cancelling draws fir
The judge ruled earlier Tues
day that Nixon is a material wit
ness to the defense case of
Ehrlichman and two other former
White House employes, G. Gordon
Liddy and David R. Young Jr. All
three are charged with burglary
and conspiracy. Ehrlichman is
also charged with perjury.
The White House formally de
clined comment on the ruling
until it receives the judge’s order,
but sources later indicated the
President would decline to appear
personally as a witness.
Ehrlichman attorney Douglas
Dalton immediately prepared the
three-page subpoena. But Dalton
said Ringer decided to study the
subpoena’s legal phraseology be
fore signing.
Editor:
Sometimes things only appear
to be getting better. A classic ex
ample of this is the way this uni
versity in the past several years
has scrambled after an image of
a school growing and changing to
meet the times. It is remarkable
how successful they were, I al
most believed it.
But then someone decidec . . that
radical lawyer William Kunstler
shouldn’t speak here. Then, with
an irony so appropriate. President
Williams announces that Vice
President Gerald Ford will speak
at spring commencement.
We are told that “Kunstler is
not the most popular man at this
time” and this is why they can
celed his appearance — that and
money, of course.
Did anybody stop to ask how
popular Vice President Ford is to
day? I find his politics, policies
and associates just as objection
able as Kunstler’s or more so.
What is evidently only opinion
as well is the concept of a univer
sity as a place for the free ex
change of ideas. A place where
one could listen to the radical, the
conservative and the middle of
the road and draw one’s own con
clusions. Evidently this view is
not shared by those who run this
university and SCONA.
That is evidently another opin
ion of mine that has been shot
down in flames. In moments of
extreme delusion I had assumed
that our leaders had the courage
of their convictions. Now I see
they only had the conviction of
appearances and money. Both
Kunstler and Ford have them out
classed there.
Neither Kunstler or Ford would
have amounted to anything if they
had not had the courage to stand
up for what they think is right.
This university will certainly not
amount to anything either until
it and its leaders stand for some
thing as basic as the freedom to
have disagreeing ideas.
How far we are from this is
evidenced by President William’s
refusal to comment on this affair
—from him I would have expected
much better. But perhaps it is
wiser that he did refuse to com
ment; there is nothing, absolutely
nothing, he could say that would
not end up making the precious
appearance of himself SCONA
and this university worse.
Hayden Whitsett
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Editor:
Although we do not fully un
derstand the possible underlying
intentions of SCONA’s cancella
tion of William Kunstler, we def
initely feel that this was not in
the best interest of TAMU, as
was previously cited as a reason
for the cancellation.
It is in the self-interest of the
university, its faculty and its stu
dents to promote activities which
deal with all aspects of society.
This includes the nonconformist
whose expressed political and
moral views conflict with those
of the majority.
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Editor:
We are writing in regard to the
page 5 article in Wednesday’s
Battalion concerning the Tuesday
Shuttle Bus Committee meeting.
The committee members seemed
very concerned about the over
crowded situation on the shuttle
buses, mainly Route Two. Com
mittee member and Staff Assist
ant to the President Roger Miller
was quoted as saying, “The prob
lem was a matter of educating
people with 8 a.m. classes to
catch the first bus at 7 a.n
Do Mr. Miller and other
mittee members who live
shuttle bus route ride the h
Would they agree to wait In
bus at 7 a.m. after getting
approximately 6 a.m, and
arriving at campus waitli
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