is y robe goes on I Mb: b>M l imuiUim r'age WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1978 Castro denies foreknowledge of JFK assassination !giei Mh t ediii is a non. United Press International WASHINGTON — Did Fidel stro know in advance that Lee irvey Oswald would kill President h F. Kennedy? he Cuban leader vehemently in- fed to House Assassination Com- ttee members in Havana last April it he did not know Oswald was ngto kill the president and, if he known, “it would have been our iral responsibility to inform the jjnited States. ” The committee touched on the subject during hearings Monday. Two former Cuban consuls in Mexico City and a Mexican secretary for the consulate denied that Oswald mentioned anything about Kennedy or assassinations when he applied for and was refused a Cuban transit visa a few weeks before the Nov. 22, 1963, murder. The committee left for further dis cussion Tuesday a paragraph in its prepared commentary which was is sued by the committee Monday. The paragraph said that despite Castro’s denial of an alleged 1967 interview discussing foreknowledge, “the committee has been informed that the substance of the . . . article is supported by highly confidential but reliable sources available to the United States government.” Staff Counsel G. Robert Blakey never got to read that paragraph be fore the session was adjourned until Tuesday. He cautioned that it should not be taken at face value, since the com mittee at this stage is only presenting “both sides of the argument” and has not revealed its own position. At Monday’s hearing, the commit tee entered as evidence the text of an interview British free lance jour nalist Comer Clark is said to have had with Castro, published in the National Enquirer in 1967. Castro was quoted as saying: “Yes, I heard of Lee Harvey Os- r tlie. Jrganizij ape victim names not open records ill rules after Battalion request wald’s plan to kill President Ken nedy. It’s possible that I could have saved him. I might have been able to — but I didn’t. I never believed the plan would be put into effect. Clark said Castro told him that when Oswald went to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City in 1963 he offered to work for Cuba and “then said something like: Someone ought to shoot that President Kennedy . Maybe I’ll try it .” The committee said Clark died in 1972 but an investigation into his background and reputation for verac ity showed “it was not good.” An excerpt from what Castro told the committee about the alleged in terview was released Monday. “This is absurd,” it quoted Castro as saying. WHAT A BARGAIN! BRASS BELT BUCKLES AGGIE SPECIAL ONLY AT THE $ 8 HOUSE OF SOOTS 112 NAGLE • IN THE GREYHOUND BUS STATION #NORTHGATE DON’T EVEN THINKING OF BUYING BOOTS UNTIL YOU’VE COMPARED OUR PRICES! NOCONA BOOTS/CASUAL SHOES ASTRO TENNIS SHOES [royalfel emo»! le pup no pen The Texas Attorney General ruled at the names of rape or attempted pe victims in the files of university iliceare not open records, in a let ter to James B. Bond, general coun- of Texas A&M University. |i f Whe letter received earlier this the •» e k was * n response to a written ■jueston March 8, 1978, for access ■University Police records by a Bat- Hion reporter. Citing the Texas Open Records Act, the reporter asked to “know the names of the victims, time and place of attack, and circumstances sur rounding the attack,” for the period of March 1977 through March 1978. Under the federal Family Educa tion Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, any records the university police may keep for law enforcement, apart from educational records, are not av ailable to anyone other than law en forcement officials of the same juris diction and are not open records, At torney General John Hill said. If police records are seen by people other than those in law en forcement, or if academic records are open to university police, the stu dent must first give permission be fore they can be released. Bond said he declined to comment on the letter until other university officials have been consulted. Aggie Tidbits llhe “Elephant Walk occurs be- j-e the Thanksgiving Day football Ime each year. Seniors gather in font of the flagpole on Military Talk, near the Corps quad, to wan- kr aimlessly about the campus like old elephants about to die. This ceremony symbolizes the fact that seniors that will graduate the follow ing spring will be of no further use to Texas A&M students. MSC Great Issues presents onretm Fort it! J studio roval i: to 60 li '