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Vol. 67 No. 343
College Station, Ten*
Wednesday, February 6, 1974
Brutal kidnapping
nets Hearst heiress
BERKELEY, Calif. GW—Firing at wit
nesses as they went, kidnapers dragged news
paper heiress Patricia Campbell Hearst, 19,
screaming from her apartment Monday night,
it was disclosed Tuesday.
Authorities and the family awaited a
ransom demand, but none was reported.
During the raid, the kidnapers badly beat
Miss Hearst’s fiance and beat and tied a neigh
bor who ran to their aid. The apartment was
left a shambles and splattered with blood.
In full view of neighbors, the blindfolded
and half-nude victim was dumped into the
trunk of a stolen, car. The empty car was
later found seven blocks away.
“She was screaming, ‘Please let me go’,”
said Sandy Golden, 21, who watched from the
house next door.
Witnesses said up to 12 shots were fired
in the apparently well-planned 10-minute raid
on the handsome townhouse apartment build
ing about a quarter-mile from the University
of California campus where Miss Hearst is
a sophomore history major.
Miss Hearst is the granddaughter of late
publisher William Randolph Hearst and daugh
ter of Randolph A. Hearst, president and
editor of the San Francisco Examiner.
The news media waited more than 12 hours
before releasing the story because the police
and FBI feared that premature publicity
might endanger Miss Hearst’s life.
Bullet holes pockmarked the wall alongside
Miss Hearst’s apartment. Her sliding front
door was shattered.
A next-door neighbor said she was barely
missed by gunfire as she yelled for the kid
napers to release their captive. A bullet
smashed through the window of the house next
door where others watched the getaway.
Berkeley police Lt. Henry Sanders said
a slouching white woman in her 20s, with long
black hair and wearing a loose-fitting jacket
over a light sweatshirt, knocked on Miss
Hearst’s door about 9:20 p.m.
He said Miss Heart and her fiance, Steven
Andrew Weed, 26, decided not to admit the
woman because of the hour, but the woman
tried the door, found it unlocked and barged
into the foyer followed by two black men, also
in their 20s.
Weed said the two men were armed with
rifles and shotguns. “In seconds they had me
face down on the floor in the hallway. They
kept kicking me in the face and forcing me
to keep my face down,” he said.
(See HEARST, Page 8)
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A MOTORCYCLE less than a week old proved too much to handle for its new owner
Tuesday. Kirk Warren Francis, a junior marketing major, took the big spill about noon
near University Drive on the Wellborn Road exit ramp. Francis lost control of his bike
after striking a curb. He was taken to the University Hospital. Francis’ injuries were
not thought to be serious, although the motorcycle was extensively damaged. (Photo
| by Steve Ueckert)
(AP) — Independent truckers
ended their blockade of truck
stops in West Texas Tuesday and
some drivers expressed fears of
violence as other groups of inde
pendent drivers pledged to con
tinue their strike in East and
North Texas.
Truckers who had parked their
rigs in front of diesel pumps at
several truck stops in West Texas
announced Tuesday they were re
moving them “because some peo
ple are taking advantage of it.”
“The strike is not over yet and
I want you to make that clear,”
driver Billy Pugh said at the Wi
ley Truck Stop in Merkle. “Vio
lence will take place now that the
blockade has been broken.”
The blockade of truck stops at
Merkle and Abilene was lifted af
ter a truck stop in Big Spring
opened for business again Mon
day.
“We lifted the blockade vol
untarily because people who co
operate with us will suffer while
those guys are making money,”
said driver Ricky Decker, who had
used his truck to block a truck
stop in Tye.
Decker said it was not fair to
blockade some stops while others
were allowed to remain open.
Joe Waffard, manager of the
Rip Griffin Truck Stop in Big
Spring said he did not share
Pugh’s apprehensions about vio
lence and that was the reason
why he opened his truck stop. He
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MSC constitution revisions Open house, moog
considered by Directorate highlight full week
By MARY RUSSO
Staff Writer
Confusion and conflict has caused the
Memorial Student Center Directorate to con
sider cutting its hierarchy by means of
constitutional revision.
A sub-committee composed of officers, com
mittee chairmen, a former student and a
faculty member has proposed a cut in the
number of voting members and a reorganiza
tion of the executive branch.
“This year the chairmen didn’t know who
to go to for authoritative answers,” said
Constitutional Committee Chairman Chet
Edwards.
Presently there are four vice presidents,
who have neither job descriptions nor self-
drawn conclusions about their areas. This
led committee chairmen into a bewildering
mass of overlapping power and with no one
being able to take ultimate responsibility for
decisions.
Also in existence is an extra strata of
executives called executive vice presidents. For
a problem to get to a “top echelon” officer, it
first has to fight its way through the jungle
of vice presidents into the executive vice
presidents’ domain.
When it reached this level, it was the same
story of overlapping problem areas and which
exec veep would handle it.
“The situation is such that there are people
filling slots that shouldn’t exist,” said Bill
Davis, committee member. “Besides, there is
a need to create slots to cover neglected areas.
The manpower should be put where it’s need
ed,” Davis said.
An executive committee of seven members
is proposed. The president and the vice presi
dents of administrative affairs, committee
affairs and finance would have final authority.
They would also have the knowledge on whom
to contact in the administration for informa
tion.
Under the vice president of administrative
affairs will be the directors of operations,
projects and public relations. They will work
on “paper-pushing” and organization.
The sub-committee also suggested that the
council voting privileges be reapportioned. The
Student Government president would retain his
vote.
The four classifications and graduate stu
dents would be represented by their presidents
together with a Battalion representative, all
of whom would have speaking privileges but
no vote. Two directorate chairmen would also
vote on the council, making ten student voters
on the council.
Also on the council would be five faculty
members, two former students and a secretary-
treasurer. This administrative block would
have seven votes.
Activities range from the Moog Trio to Free Uni
versity registration as the Memorial Student Center
directorate ends the week as they began it, with a bang.
Spring Open House will be Wednesday evening in
the ballroom on second floor of the MSC. Both MSC
committees and outside organizations will have booths for
everyone’s inspection. Members of the various organiza
tions will man the booths to answer questions and help
those interested in joining.
Thursday is marked with Free University registra
tion, the Moog Trio presentation and Great Issues’ Speaker
Joachim Scheilien.
Free U. offers people a chance to learn something
in an informal atmosphere, free from academic restraint.
Registration and information centers will be located on
the first floor of the MSC. Twenty courses are being
offered. They vary from automotive principles and appli
cations to women in literature. Registration will be held
from 7-9 p.m. Both students and non-students are wel
comed in this activity.
Great Issues Speaker, Joachim Schelien, is talking on
“How the Dollar Fell” as part of this committee’s noon
time series. Admission is free to hear this German jour
nalist in room 225 of the MSC.
Finally, to cap the evening will be the Chris Swansen
Mogg Trio, presenting the computerized music, from Bach
through contemporary rock. Moog is the machine that
makes music- without the benefit of traditional musical
instruments. The presentation will be in the Auditorium
of the Theater complex in the University Center. Admis
sion is $1.00 for students and $1.50 for non-students. The
performance begins at 8 p.m.
said some independent truckers
asked him to open for business
again.
At Lone Star in East Texas Bill
Gentry, spokesman for nearly 300
truck drivers said his group would
“sit tight” until their demands
are met.
The truckers are asking for
faster highway speeds, lower fuel
prices and higher freight rates.
Gentry said his group has not
engaged in any violent activities.
And in Dallas leaders of an
other group of truckers said they
were still waiting for some action
by the state government on pro
mises that Texas officials would
carry the truckers’ demands to
Washington.
AUSTIN, (AP)—Gov. Dolph
Briscoe said Tuesday a special
conference has been set up with
federal energy chief William Si
mon in an effort to end the strike
of several hundred independent
Texas truckers.
Briscoe said his special assist
ant on energy, James Rose will fly
to Washington early Wednesday
for the conference with Simon.
Briscoe said in a message to
Simon that “Texas is faced with
a work stoppage among indepen
dent truckers which threatens the
nation’s economy and could result
in severe shortages ... I believe
a meeting between you and Rose
may provide you information
which may lead to an agreement
ending the state and national tru
ckers strike.”
Rose has been negotiating with
representatives of the Texas
Chapter of the United Truckers of
America.
Chris Swansen and an incredi
bly versatile musical instrument,
the Moog synthesizer, will appear
in the University Center Audi
torium Thursday night.
Swansen will perform original
compositions as well as music by
J. S. Bach, Lennon-McCartney,
Blood Sweat & Tears, and Carol
King.
The Moog synthesizer is an
electronic device which simulates
the sound of the various known
musical instruments by allowing
the operator/musician to select
the particular harmonic overtones
the machine will produce when
the keys are pressed. The differ
ence in harmonic overtones, tim
bre and resonance is what makes
one musical instrument sound dif
ferent from another. The syn
thesizer has been used by such
artists as Walter Carlos, Keith
Emerson and Rick Wakeman to
produce all the strange sound, as
well as some of the familiar ones
heard on their albums, “Switched
on Bach,” “Music from a Clock
work Orange,” “Tarkus,” “Brain
Salad Surgery,” “The Six Wives
of Henry the Eighth,” and “Close
to the Edge.”
The concert will be Thursday
night at 8 o’clock in the Univer
sity Center Auditorium. Tickets
for students, cost $1 and are $1.’0
for anyone else.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
Colson documents may implicate
White House in dairy antitrust case
WASHINGTON UP)—Newly disclosed
documents show that Charles W. Colson
raised an alarm at the White House
about a 1971 Justice Department investi
gation of a dairy cooperative that was
donating funds for President Nixon’s
re-election campaign.
Colson said the antitrust investigation
could have “very serious adverse conse
quences.” The investigation later was
shifted from criminal to civil channels.
The documents also show that John
W. Dean III, then the President’s official
lawyer, followed the progress of the anti
trust investigation and prepared a report
on it.
And the documents raise the possi
bility that White House chief of staff
H. R. Haldeman discussed the case with
then Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell.
The documents, released Monday in
connection with a Ralph Nader lawsuit,
are the first indication that White House
officials took an active interest in the
controversial antitrust case.
Previously it had been disclosed that
Mitchell turned down repeated requests
from his antitrust chief, Richard W.
McLaren, to start a federal grand jury
investigation of allegedly illegal monop
oly tactics used by the Associated Milk
Producers, Inc. A civil suit was filed
instead.
The milk producers had promised to
give $2 million to Nixon’s re-election
campaign, which Mitchell later directed.
McLaren’s first request for a grand
jury was sent to Mitchell Sept. 9, 1971,
according to the former antitrust chief’s
sworn affidavit. Fifteen days later Col
son, then special counsel to the President,
alerted Haldeman to the matter.
“For obvious reasons, I should not be
involved with respect to the following,”
Colson said. He said the Justice Depart
ment was conducting an antitrust probe
of dairy cooperatives, without mention
ing McLaren’s recommendation for a
grand jury.
“If this goes too far there will be a
number of very serious adverse conse
quences which I will be glad to elaborate
on in detail,” Colson said.
“I do think this should be taken up
at one of your meetings. I would like
to stay out of it.”
Haldeman and Mitchell met period
ically during this time to discuss political
matters.
Another memo to Haldeman, from his
assistant Gordon Strachan, said Dean “is
checking this report on a very low key
basis.”
“John Dean has been watching this
matter closely,” Strachan added.
Within two weeks, on Oct. 6, Dean
submitted a report on the antitrust probe
to Strachan. Only the cover sheet of the
report was made public, not the contents.
The newest documents were released
in connection with the filing of a new
affidavit by Herbert W. Kalmbach, a
former Nixon fund-raiser and lawyer, in
a Nader lawsuit over the administra
tion’s 1971 increase in milk price sup
ports.
Kalmbach, in a switch from his earlier
testimony, swore that Haldeman person
ally authorized him to receive a secret
$100,000 cash contribution from the
dairymen in 1969.
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The White House has made a written
response to special Watergate prosecutor
Leon Jaworski’s request for continued
access to tapes and documents.
A meeting is scheduled later this week
to resolve a growing dispute.
The letter, from White House Water
gate lawyer James D. St. Clair was
termed “a lengthy communication” by a
spokesman in the special prosecutor’s
office. The spokesman said it “will re
quire further clarification and further
discussion between Mr. Jaworski and Mr.
(See DEVELOPMENT, page 6)
NESTING SEASON brought out by the false spring
of the last week attracted Hart Hall resident Greg Mag-
ruder to his unusual vantage point. (Photo by Gary Bald-
asari)