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ir ter, jJ Ci Ulies , J rl es Col — Scott ‘ker, Rid Weicker claims political abuse of »ug Bt ‘vis, Ali McPhjji irles D„ imo, fin - Bradfe - Shift cGilvra] ’'k Zonui federal agencies WASHINGTON UP) — The White House made a total effort dating from the first days of the Nixon administration to use the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies to control its political and ideological oppo nents, Sen. Lowell P. Weicker said Monday. Weicker, R-Conn., made public a flood of memos which he said showed the systematic abuse of the IRS, starting with the cre ation in 1969 of a secret task force to collect tax information on so-called activist groups. Using another set of docu ments given the Senate Water gate Committee, Weicker detailed what he said were 54 separate undercover investigations con ducted for the White House by retired New York City detective Anthony T. Ulasewicz. They included three separate and unsuccessful attempts to link Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., to “wild parties” in California, Hawaii, and Arizona. Testifying before a joint ses sion of three Senate subcommit tees investigating the extent of covert government intelligence operations, Weicker also produced documents indicating the White House had a strong interest in the tax problems encountered by presidential friends, evangelist Billy Graham and actor John Wayne. Wayne has sent a telegram to Weicker saying he never asked for or received IRS favors. Weicker advised Wayne in a telegram to take his complaints to the White House and said he was sending the actor the memos in which White House aides John W. Dean III and John Caulfield discussed his tax difficulties. Weicker produced what he said was an IRS memo that showed that Ronald Reagan, now Cali fornia’s Republican governor, was assessed $13,091 in taxes owed for the years 1962 through 1965. The memo showed Wayne had been assesed $237,331 in taxes owed in 1986 alone. Other years for which deficiency figures were given showed much smaller totals. Specific comparison tax audit information also was supplied the White House on entertainers Prank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Fred MacMurray, Peter Lawford, Jerry Lewis, Richard Boone, and on Lucille Ball and her husband, Gary Morton, the memos showed. Weicker said the IRS memo on the formation of the special in telligence tack force discussed various means by which the tax laws could be used to attack what it described variously as activist, ideological, radical, militant, or subversive groups. The memo, signed by D. O. Virdin, added: “We do not want the news media to be alerted to what we are attempting to do or how we are operating because disclosure of such information might embarrass the adminis tration ...” Weather !air to partly cloudy Tues day with a high of 78°. Southeasterly winds 8-16 mph. Partly cloudy and me ’„ h warmer Wednesday. Low to night 57°. High tomorrow 'is Gti Che Battalion Barry Buske chosen senator from science The 1974-75 senior senator from the College of Science is Barry N. Buske. In the Friday Battalion, due to a typographical error, it was reported that the winner was Michael Collins. Buske received 63 votes and Collins none instead of the other way around. Today in the Batt MSC memos p. 2 Hearne troubles p. 3 UH shelling p. 6 Vol. 67 No. 375 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 9, 1974 PUN iplan igs luntclub '697-5S0CI . Yell leader, RHA elections upheld by Judicial Board '—-dip use □ Bn) 1 m Kuez ’fiC I » 74- XI IMBI Both appeals dealing with last week’s student leadership elec tions were defeated in Judicial Board action last night. The first case, David White vs. the Election Board, centered on four contentions: 1) graduating seniors were allowed to vote in the yell leader race; 2) 167 voided ballots were returned in this race, more than any other election; 3) ballots were faulty by allowing cross-over voting (juniors voting for Class of ’76 yell leaders) ; and 4) candidate lists were seen being passed around at the Memorial Student Center polling place. White, student government treasurer, contended that there were inconsistencies and illegali ties enough to cast suspicion on the outcome of the yell leader election. In reply to these charges, Barry Bowden, Election Board chair man, said that instructions were written and guidelines were given to poll workers to prevent seniors from voting. “I briefed all the workers, and this was a minor problem at best,” Bowden said. “The ballots contained instruc tions to vote for ‘Your class’ only,” said Bowden. “I feel those who violated the instructions were ignorant and deserve to have their votes discounted. We take an atti tude of trust toward the student body.” Bowden said there were few voided ballots in the senatorial races, and that someone was try ing to take advantage of the yell leader elections. “This Is a minor point, too,” Bowden said. Bowden said the hadn’t seen any lists being passed and that he felt this was not campaigning. Bowden said any i-erun of the campaign would be unfair to the winners of the election. Shariq Yosufszai, vice-president of the Senate, then took the floor and addressed point one by say fGreensleeves’ first lay of planned four L With four shows in rehearsal jl( the same time there is a lot of ictivity in and around the domain of the Aggie Players. There is a tree standing in the iudder Center Forum. A play pens there Wednesday. There fas a rehearsal in the workshop ext door. There was a rehearsal mtside on the lawn. There have even been dancers in the Design Studio in Bizzell Hall, with the tafting tables shoved to one Bde. The Rudder Center theaters »nd Bizzell Hall are the stomping grounds of the English Depart ment's Theater Arts Section, oth erwise known as the performing company, the Aggie Players. Four plays are scheduled for performances in the Rudder Cen ter in the next five weeks, creat ing a lot of work for everyone in volved. In “Greensleeves Magic,” a wandering balladeer named Greensleeves teaches the unhappy people of a subjugated kingdom how to thwart the oppression of the evil Grand Duchess with sing ing and laughing and dancing. With original choreography and musical arrangement, the show is the production of the Child- (See ‘GREENSLEEVES,’ page 3) The rich soprano of opera star llarisa Galvany will come to the ludder Center Auditorium to- pght. At 8 Galvany will present the Irst of three Opera and Perform ing Arts Society concerts sche duled this month. The Houston Symphony is sche duled for April 25 with violinist Itzhak Perlmann set for April 29. Club fights to compete Darkroom space scarce i STREET CULTURE takes on a new meaning - to Aggies during the Saturday street carnival sponsored by the TAMU women’s weekend festival. After the sledge hammer broke, a youngster tries his hand with a hammer at the car bash (above, left), while a new style in cosmetics made the scene at the pie throw (above). The rat in the rat race (below, left) makes his way into the College of Science while devotees of painful affections (below, right) check out the shock treatment. Booths were staffed and planned by dorm floor groups. K-FH + O officials proclaimed the weekend bash, which included lectures on careers for women and dances and other social events, a “real success.” (Photos by Alan Killings- worth and Gary Baldasari) ing he received a call from Sena tor Brad Bryant about seniors voting. Yosufszai said he im mediately went to the polling place and corrected the situation. In any election, the Election Board is assumed to give the best possible instructions to poll work ers and on the ballots, Yosufszai said. He added that voided ballots are common to any paper ballot election. “The greater number of voided votes shows the zeal and enthusi asm of the student body toward the election,” Yosufszai said. In questioning, it was brought (See YELL, page 3) Tunney speaks here Tuesday The Senator that the Ralph Nader Congressional Project said will “Help shape and create na tional policy in the Senate,” will appear for Political Forum at 8:30 p. m., April 10, in the Rudder Center Theater. He will speak on “Nixon Vs. Congress: Show down?” Senator John Tunney, (son of Gene Tunney, the famous boxer) is the author of several landmark bills. Since his election to the Senate in 1970, he has introduced legislation for the Noise Pollution Control Act, the Water Quality Control Act and numerous other bills dealing with unemployment conpensation, consumer protec tion and anti-trust laws. Tunney has been a leader in the Senate in its efforts to regain the constitu tional powers of the purse. He in troduced a resolution calling for a joint committee to establish pro cedures by which Congress, for the first time in history, can set for itself a budget ceiling. A law graduate of the Univer sity of Virginia, he was elected to the 89th Congress in 1964, and subsequently reelected to the 90 and 91st. He was elected to the Senate in 1970 by the largest mar gin ever given a Democratic can didate in California in this cen tury, 619,000 votes. He is on the Senate’s Judiciary and com merce committees. Admission will be free for stu dents and 50 cents for non-stu dents. By MARY RUSSO TAMU Salon, the annual photo ^position, will be held this year Pith fewer than usual prints rom the Memorial Student Cen ter Camera Committee. The Salon, sponsored by the Camera Committee to stimulate iterest in photography on cam- ius, is open to all collegiate-con- lected amateurs. It will be all day (8 a.m. to 4 i.m.) Saturday in the Rudder Center Forum. Some 176 prints have been re eked, many from other Texas Ustitutions. But A&M students hemselves have had a rough time bing to get to facilities to print heir entries. The story goes back to last kpril when the committee was old that the west end of the old tSC building, where its dark- "oom was located, was going to renovated during the year and he structure was to be “gutted,” F the inside tom out. This meant that the commit- ■ee, without a darkroom, either University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv. had to fold or move. James P. Hannigan, former Dean of Stu dents, arranged for the commit tee to move into the morgue and other rooms in the basement of the old hospital. “The area we occupied was not air conditioned and had been aban doned since about 1965,” said Darrell Cobb, former camera committee chairman. “We cov ered the window with black plas tic, tapped into the overhead plumbing and made the best of the extremely hot (sometimes up around 103 degrees) and humid (anywhere from 95 to 99 percent relative humidity) conditions.” “The place was dusty, which makes really good printing near impossible. Plaster fell from the walls at inopportune times and anytime equipment was moved from one place to another, the tiles broke under foot. “The equipment was soaked from water seepage when it rained, which was nearly a daily; affair last summer, and a good deal of the committee’s equip ment was ruined or helped along those lines. “A baseboard for an enlarger was totally wrecked, the voltage stabilizer for the color dark room was impaired to the extent that color shifts are noticeable on prints, and a number of the lenses which are used for loan programs are full of fungus growth,” said Cobb. At the beginning of the fall se mester, J. Wayne Stark found the committee more suitable quarters in the Bizzell Hall basement. “We’ve got the best dark rooms that money, $187, will buy,” Cobb said. As time went on, Cobb and Mike Hatch, then MSC vice-pres ident of operations decided to check on the progress of con struction of the new photo labs in the renovated MSC. They found the preliminary work fol lowing the specifications of the Camera Club closely. Hatch then decided to look for the blueprints to find exactly which of the Camera Committee’s recommendations had been ac cepted. The area on the blueprints specified as the photo labs was marked “NIC” or “not in con tract,” meaning no further con struction would be done. The Camera Committee, one of (See PHOTO, page 4) ■ * ir*r.