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bw-Wow. I to be extej ” she said Homedale, | /e the eitytw ^anfare ” United Press International ill hav'eai WASHINGTON — Congress of erican Indians President Mel lasket is the overwhelming ome whoi ^ 0 f t r ib es surveyed in an ft h0 [ se ; »rior Department poll for the iold the mi j t j on ass i s tant secretary of dvice, and ;r j or f or i n( Ji an affairs. Sen. ies Abourezk, D-S.D., said isday. Tribes seeking nominations to fulfill Carter promise THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1977 Page 9 Abourezk, chairman of the Senate select subcommittee on Indian Af fairs, said he favors the nomination of Tonasket because he can do a “better job of transferring power from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Indians themselves.” Tonasket is a Colville Indian from Washington state who successfully fought termination of federal rights for his tribe of about 3,000 persons. Also under White House consid eration for the job is Forrest Gerard, a six-year staff member of the old Senate Interior Committee. Gerard last winter began his own Washington lobbying which handles ie aldeman and Mitchell jrdered to serve sentences ll be gametabli or United Press International rge enotijj intinuous itemplatinj! .WASHINGTON — John Mitchell and H. R. jldeman Monday were ordered to prison June 22 for lirpart in the Watergate cover-up. S. District Judge John Sirica told the two top aides [ ormer President Richard Nixon they had two weeks lean up their personal affairs before beginning their fences of 30 months to eight years for obstructing tice, conspiracy and perjury in America’s worst litical scandal. s from his! n a brief four-minute hearing in the latest legal hefearedu ipter of the Watergate episode that drove Nixon eh had non m office, Sirica told Mitchell, the former attorney card and i j e ral; and Haldeman, once the White House chief of little" by Oj jf ; erathertk jhe court will grant each of Mr. Mitchell and Mr Jdeman until Wednesday, June 22 to put their per- ct, and It mI affairs in order, ons about! ‘On that date each of you will report to the U.S. in Dallas nt Hotel oi ;ood rest* layboy lid. “Wei hem marshal in the District of Columbia at 10 a.m. or if a specific institution has been designated you will report there by noon on June 22.” John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s chief domestic affairs ad viser, also was sentenced in the cover-up, but last summer voluntarily began serving his sentence while awaiting his Supreme Court appeal. Haldeman has arranged with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to serve his term at the minimum security fed eral prison camp at Lompoc, Calif., 100 miles north of his Los Angeles home. No decision has been made for Mitchell, who probably will go to the Allenwood camp in Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court has turned down appeals by Mitchell and Haldeman to review their convictions. The two have until June 17 — the fifth anniversary of the Watergate break-in — to make a final appeal to the high court. legislation for five tribes including 19 New Mexico Pueblo groups, the Ak-Chin Indian community, Arizona and three Pacific Northwest tribes, the Quinault Indian Nation, Makah Reservation and Yakima Reservation. Gerard, a Blackfeet Indian, also worked for the Indian Health Serv ice and for the Bureau of Indian Af fairs for 15 months. His involvement with the BIA has led to criticism that he would not be effective in making changes in the agency. The BIA told Abourzek it has taken so long to choose a new assis tant secretary of interior for Indian affairs because “President Carter made a commitment to the Indian community that the administration would consult with Indian leaders on all matters affecting Indians.” The BIA listed the results of its questionnaire to 250 Indian tribes on their choice for BIA commis sioner from six names. The survey showed Gerard had the support of 14 tribes while Tonasket had the backing of 37 tribes. The Interior Department under the Carter Administration has up graded the post of Bureau of Indian Affairs commissioner to a full assis tant secretary for Interior. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus has said he wants an Indian adviser close to his office because the department can benefit from the Indian perspective. A White House source said the nomination will be announced within the next three weeks. Post columnist to speak at graduation Houston Post columnist Lynn Ashby will be Texas A&M Univer sity’s summer commencement speaker, announced President Jack K. Williams. Graduation ceremonies are set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, in G. Rol- lie White Coliseum. Ashby is both a University of Texas graduate and an honorary Ag gie. The latter designation with be stowed on him by Texas A&M’s Association of Former Students. Dr. Williams formally presented the award when Ashby spoke here ear lier this year at the Student Confer ence on National Affairs. His column has been a regular feature of The Houston Post since 1971. TOO HOT IN THE KITCHEN??! LET US DO THE COOKING AT (2V2 MILES WEST ON UNIVERSITY DRIVE) LUNCH FROM 11:30-2 TUES.-FRI. FISH CHICKEN CHICKEN FRIED STEAK . FLOUNDER FILET 1 99 WEEKDAYS 5-9 P.M. AND WEEKENDS 11:30 A.M.-9 P.M. — IT’S ALL YOU CAN EAT* CHICKEN AND FISH. 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Miss Walters’ interview with Castro — in his Havana office, at the Bay of Pigs, at his hideaway in the Sierra Maestra mountains where he fought for years as a guerrilla — will be seen on ABC June 9, 10-11 p.m. Eastern time. “We were the first Americans to cross the Bay of Pigs since the invasion in 1961,” Miss Walters said in an interview. “And we were irdholden|crossing with Fidel Castro.” The story of how Miss Walters came to do the first full-length, nto thoselin-depth interview with Castro began two years ago when she was in Fers towoilCuba with the press entourage following Sen. George McGovern. At luncheoffilthe time she asked for an interview and Castro promised her she red by wtlwould have the first when he decided to grant such interviews. ;elebritiei| When she asked Castro why he had promised her the first inter- rporatioBilview, he answered simply, “Because you asked me.” discussioil Castro has granted other interviews — including the one on the and tklCIAthat Bill Moyers will report on CBS June 10, 9-11 p.m., Eastern their rol|time, as part of a CBS Reports on “The CIA’s Secret Army.” But that was a one-topic story, not an interview that included ay endurleverything from normalization of relations with the United States “he s whiletklsaid in the Carter second term — between 1980 and 1984” to Castro’s jxaminaftlniafital status “you’ll have to tune in to find out.” id serioiiif “There were no questions submitted in advance, no areas closed to us,” Miss Walters said. “That doesn’t mean he answers every ques tion. And he is obsessed with the CIA — it almost got to be a joke with us, the way everything came back to the CIA. Then he tells you the number of assassination attempts against his life and when the last one was.” Some of the interviewing was done at the Bay of Pigs and in the Sierra Maestra — through which Castro himself drove the Russian- made jeep with a cigar in his mouth and a gun on the dashboard but accompanied by only one security jeep. Most of the talk was in Cas tro’s office. “That’s where we dealt with matters of substance,” Miss Walters said, “with the Bay of Pigs, and Nixon, and the assassination of Ken nedy. “He has a whole theory of the Kennedy assassination, which he says is still a great deal of a mystery to him. He does not have a solution to it. He tells what he thinks about Lee Harvey Oswald and what he knows of — how shall I put it? — Oswald’s lack of connec tion to Cuba. He says in a sense, to a degree, somebody or some organization is trying to frame Cuba and Castro.” Miss Walters, who found Castro one of the most interesting sub jects among the many heads of state she has interviewed over the years, believes he is generally well-informed, although with occa sional blank spots about the United States and with considerable naivety about the Soviet Union. “He is an extraordinarily charismatic personality,” she said. “He has great humor and vigor. The men in our group liked him as much as the women did, if not more. He has a very funny, wonderful sense of humor. He smokes those cigars and fingers his beard. He said when the embargo is lifted on U.S. trade with Cuba, please send him some Gillette razors. “I think this is a balanced report. We picture this man, so ex tremely charismatic, but also a man who is a totally dedicated revolu tionary and Communist. There are those who think that if we estab lish relations with Cuba, he’ll come around. That’s a mistake, I think. Castro is a total devotee of the Soviet Union.” She said that most of the interview was done with Castro speaking in Spanish, accompanied byr simultaneous translation. He does speak in English in a message to the American people and in the opening of the show when he talks about his thoughts as he crosses the Bay of Pigs. As for her impressions of the Cuban people. Miss Walters said: “Economically conditions still are quite difficult. We saw the worst section of Cuba and also the best. Castro has spent most of his money and effort on schools and hospitals, and he is very proud of them. Living conditions, however, are difficult and food is still rationed, although not in restaurants. “Castro has severe economic problems and I’m sure the middle class is very unhappy. For the poor, everybody at least is fed and there is free education and medical attention. The people in the mountains, in an area he hadn’t visited in more than a year, treated him very easily. 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