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NEW YORK (^—Former Com
merce Secretary Maurice H. Stans
testified Wednesday that finan
cier Robert L. Vesco never receiv
ed a payoff in return for a secret
$200,000 cash contribution to
President Nixon’s 1972 election
campaign.
The former Cabinet member
took the witness stand in his own
defense at the federal criminal
conspiracy trial in which he is a
codefendant with onetime Atty.
Gen. John N. Mitchell.
When Vesco made the dona
tion, he was the target of a mas
sive Securities and Exchange
Commission frauds investigation.
Mitchell and Stans are accused
of seeking to impose this probe
in exchange for the $200,000.
They are charged with conspira
cy, obstruction of justice and per
jury.
Stans said that at the March
8, 1972 meeting in which the
money was pledged, it was he
and not Vesco who raised the
matter of the SEC investigation.
He testified:
“He said, ‘Well that has been
going on almost a year. We have
been trying to resolve it. But the
problem was that the SEC was
harassing us and we haven’t been
able to sit down and settle it.
Our lawyers haven’t been able to
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TONIGHT
PANHANDLE HOMETOWN CLUB will
meet at 8 p.m. in Room 501 of the
Rudder Tower.
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
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Rudder Tower at 7:30 p.m.
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at Professor Michael Murphy’s house
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CEPHEID VARIABLE COMMITTEE will
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of the Rudder Tower at 8 p.m.
SCONA will discuss topics for next years’
conference in the MSC council confer
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The Opera and Performing Arts Society
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ITZHAK PERLMAN, VIOLINIST
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The DIRECTOR'S FILM SERIES presents a film by LUIS BUNUEL
9 : 00pm thursday
TRISTANA
With Catherine Deneuve,
Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Vincent Canby called TRISTANA “nothing
less than the quintessential Bunuel film
of all time.” A haunting and exquisitely
photographed work, TRISTANA stars
Catherine Deneuve as a young and
innocent orphan who moves into the
house of Don Lope, her aging, corrupt
guardian. An aristocratic free-thinker,
Don Lope opposes authority and
champions hedonism. Although he tries
to be fatherly toward Tristana, her beauty
overwhelms him, and he seduces her.
Tristana willingly becomes his mistress,
and begins to practice the corrupt,
perverse way of life he has preached.
“VIRIDIANA is his undoubted masterpiece,
but TRISTANA is more pure and more
consistent, less ambiguous and more
complex... practically perfect symmetry
...a marvelously funny and vigorously
moral movie ... his most perfectly cast
film... the physical production, with color
photography by Jose Aguayo, is
uncommonly handsome, and its story is
the work ot an old master."
—Vincent Canby, New York Times
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Another MSC activity of the AGGIE CINEMA
get to see the commissioners.’
“I said, ‘Mr. Vesco, that should
be no problem. Anybody having
trouble with a government agen
cy should be able to go to the
head of that agency,’ I said some
thing to the effect that T hope
you work out your SEC matter
satisfactorily,’ He said, ‘I’m sure
we will.’ ”
However, Stans said that be
cause of the SEC matter, he
put a hold on the pending Vesco
contribution until he could
“check him out” with Mitchell.
The two former Cabinet col-
Judge criticizes
FBI, prosecution
leagues had resigned their offices
by that time to run the Nixon re-
election campaign.
The liaison man for Vesco with
Stans and Mitchell was Harry
Sears, a political friend of Mitch
ell who had gone to work as a
$60,000-a-year Vesco legal aide.
Regarding his meeting later
with Mitchell, Stans testified:
“I told him I had met Vesco
and talked with Sears and Ves
co was prepared to give a con
tribution of $250,000. I said that
I had discussed with Sears that
Vesco had a matter pending be-
ST. PAUL, Minn. UP) — A
federal judge refused to dismiss
charges Wednesday against Amer
ican Indian Movement leaders
Dennis Banks and Russell Means,
who are charged in last year’s 71-
day takeover of Wounded Knee,
S. D.
However, U. S. District Court
Judge Fred J. Nichol said the
government could not use any evi
dence it had acquired by moni
toring the single telephone in the
village.
The government had an exten
sion to the telephone at a road
block it had set up outside the
village.
The judge coupled his order
with criticism of the prosecution
and the FBI.
He said the government had
Library
honors
donors
Friends of the TAMU Library
honored donors of a J. Frank Dobie
Collection Wednesday.
Jeff Dykes, bookman of College
Park, Md., and his daughter, Martha
Dykes Goldsmith of Clarksville, Tenn.,
received Friends Philanthropic Awards.
The organization also paid tribute
to John B. Smith, director of TAMU
Libraries who resigned to accept an
appointment in New York.
Dr. Llerena Friend addressed the
third annual meeting of the Friends of
the Library. She is the former librarian
of the Barker Texas History Center at
the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Friend discussed early library
history at TAMU. She referred to her
student days and attending cadet
dances at A&M.
Officers headed by Dr. John P.
Abbott were elected for 1974-75.
Abbott, distinguished professor
emeritus of English, will chair the
organization devoted to developing
support for the library.
C. C. “Polly” Krueger was
re-elected vice chairman. Mrs. Eleanor
Nance was elected secretary-treasurer.
Also honored were Mr. and Mrs. H.
L. Ingram of Houston. Civil War letters
of their grandparents were presented
recently to the TAMU Archives. A
Friends of the Library keepsake pub
lication, “Hurrah for the Texans,” was
prepared by Dr. Charles Schultz,
archivist, from the collection.
Among more than 50 attending the
meeting were Clyde Wells, chairman of
TAMU Board of Directors; artist E. M.
“Buck” Schiwetz, and Mrs. Jack
Williams. Liberal Arts Dean W. David
Maxwell represented the university
administration.
PEANUTS
PEANUTS
Joe Anthro was an
authority on Egyptian
and Babylonian culture.
His greatest accomplishment,
however, was his famous
work on the Throat culture.
done a poor job of preparing its
case and presenting some of the
evidence. He said the FBI had
withheld information that should
have been delivered to government
attorneys and turned over to the
defense.
Judge Nichol said the govern
ment’s roadblock phone was not
used to facilitate negotiations,
which the government said was
its chief purpose in installing it.
But he also said there was no
evidence the FBI had monitored
any conversations between de
fense attorneys and clients over
the phone. Attorneys for Banks
and Means had alleged such mon
itoring had taken place, violating
their rights.
In criticizing the prosecution,
headed by Asst. U. S. Atty. R. D.
Hurd, Nichol said, “There was a
serious underestimation of their
responsibilities to assure that
discoverable material was pro
duced.”
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licly or privately by taldli{|l
contribution.”
Stans testified that heilb
Mitchell discussed Sears’sisjl
that the SEC investigation i ^
winding down and that Vi
lawyers said he had done
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