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I nation ^Columnist, Liddy in RiA I y * talk of murder plot ¥. $2.S)d 53 at tltj kA$i will be k I, lOUOKQI ditionsiij United Press International ■NEW YORK — Watergate con- llpirator G. Gordon Liddy and the man he 1 once considered killing, syn dicated columnist Jack Anderson, met face to face Thursday on the ABC-TV “Good Morning America” Wogram to discuss the proposed itlurder plot described in Liddy’s autobiography. s* 3 “You were a pain in the butt, ” Lid dy scolded Anderson. “You were se- Hously damaging the United States” in conducting foreign policy. That was Liddy’s explanation for a idiscussion he said he held in Febru ary 1972 with Watergate co nspirator Howard Hunt and an un ion tified former CIA physician to eutralize” or kill the columnist. Liddy’s recently published book “Will’’ detailed the plot to discredit or kill Anderson because Anderson allegedly revealed in a column the identity of a U.S. intelligence agent who, if not already dead, would have en killed within days because of the disclosure. At the meeting in the Hay Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C., Hunt suggested that Anderson be drugged with LSD so he might discredit him self in public. But the physician “shot down the idea,” Liddy said. Liddy said Hunt later told him to forget the project after it was vetoed by unidentified superiors. Hunt, who was interviewed on the NBC-TV “Today” program, denied Thursday that he gave tacit approval to any plot to kill Anderson. He sug gested that the discussed plan to dis credit Anderson might have come from President Richard Nixon. “The picture that one gets, ” Hunt said, “is that Mr. Liddy was forever volunteering to rub people out. Himself on one occasion, Jeb Mag- ruder on another occasion, Bernie Barker on another occasion, possibly Jack Anderson, and ultimately my self. ” Hunt apparently referred to “Will, ” in which Liddy wrote that he at one point considered killing Hunt because Hunt testified in the Water gate case. Liddy, who was recently released from jail after serving 52 months, said in the book and on the television program that it was his idea to kill Anderson. Anderson denied ever revealing the identity of a CIA agent and sug gested Nixon himself might have been behind the plot to kill him. “This kind of thing doesn’t come spontaneously,” said Anderson. “The president of the United States had a deep hostility toward the press.” But Liddy denied Nixon had prop osed the idea to kill Anderson. “I wasn’t following orders. I prop osed it,” he said. Anderson told Liddy it would have been “cold-blooded murder.” “I would consider it to be justified given the truth of the situation,” said Liddy, although he admitted he didn’t know for sure that Anderson had revealed the identity of a secur ity agent. i the ml id by an' nteer can I!1W§P United Press International /hich ijP WASHINGTON — An influential will b foreign policy group Thursday prop- anthef osed that the United States and Band' Soviet Union negotiate a “Non- ter at4;li Intervention Pact, ” which would ban both superpowers from using their own combat forces or proxies to in terfere in the Third World. The American Committee on East-West Accord, headed by for mer diplomat George Kennan, eco nomist John K. Galbraith and busi nessman Donald Kendall, made the proposal because “the competition needs to be constrained by a code of conduct if we are to survive.” Under the committee’s proposal, the agreement would cover Africa, the Middle East and Southern and Southeast Asia. The proposal would bind both su per-powers “to a ban, without excep tion, of direct or indirect interven tion by combat forces, by either of the powers — even if a state in the Third World territory should re quest such assistance.” It would also forbid intervention of proxy forces, such as the Cuban operations in Africa, or the Soviet- backed Vietnamese invasion of Cam bodia. It would have banned U.S. intervention in Vietnam. The proposed pact would not for bid military aid programs, non combat military advisers or arms sales to Third World countries. Former CIA and State Depart ment official Arthur Cox, who helped prepare the proposal, said preliminary talks with Soviet diplo mats have shown the Soviet govern ment might be interested in the idea. jingchos 1 Kenne j ate Jcfc r 21 in' House panel OKs registration funds United Press International WASHINGTON — The House ic Cb some tij pecfed’' illis arei »toe®' rtymeffl mocrab ^'. Appropriations Committee Thurs- . j( | 1( day narrowly voted to provide the )Sl ,, money President Carter needs to be- 11 ' gin registration of men for a possible ' draft. thDi The measure now goes to the 1,11 House floor, where opponents are 'dy "j expected to wage a hard fight to de- fld® feat the plan. lidatf* The committee voted 26-23 to approve an amendment providing 1 $13.3 million to begin registration of efion. 19. an( l 20-year-old men this year, epfi# ]sf 0 money would be provided for esiifc 1 registration of women, which Carter ledpjiad originally proposed. That idea 2, win was voted down earlier by a House e To Armed Services subcommittee, ate # Carter announced the registration plan as part of the overall U.S. re sponse to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The administration, fearful of an embarrassing setback in Congress, has been pushing hard for approval of the necessary funding. The president has the authority to order registration of men, but has been waiting to issue that order until he is assured of the funds necessary to carry out the process. Under the plan that he announced Feb. 8, men would be required to go to their local post offices to fill out registration cards that would then be sent to the Selective Service System. Registration of 19- and 20-year- olds would provide a pool of 4 million men from which the military could draft the estimated 650,000 needed if the president orders full mobiliza tion in time of national emergency. Although the committee vote was close, the action gives a new push to the president’s registration plan, which has languished in Congress for over a month. An appropriations subcommittee considered the issue in late Febru ary, but was unable to decide on whether to provide the full money needed for a peacetime mobilization or just enough to allow the Selective Service System to get ready for reg istration in time of emergency. Now you know The United States purchased Alas ka from Russia for about two cents an THE BATTALION Page 5 I FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1980 Trapped krypton causes problems United Press International HARRISBURG, Pa. — State Health Secretary H. Arnold Mul ler said Thursday a new study showing citizens were upset ab out Three Mile Island couldn’t necessarily be used to block the proposed controversial venting of (radiation at the crippled plant. The new study, released Wednesday by the Health De partment, suggested more than 10 percent of the 300,000 people living within a 15-mile radius of Three Mile Island continued to be “quite upset” a year following the nuclear crisis. “I don’t think you can conclude anything from this study” about the way the krypton should be removed, Muller said. The federal Nuclear Regula tory Commission is considering the proposal of the plant oper ator, Metropolitan Edison Co., to vent 57,000 curies of radioactive krypton now trapped inside the reactor containment building into the air. Before the Health Department study was released, the NRC staff, which had recommended the NRC commissioners approve the Met-Ed proposal, said it would re-evaluate its recommen dation and take citizen unrest into account. Earlier this week, scientists in cluding Karl Z. Morgan, a former director of the federal govern ment’s nuclear research lab at Oak Ridge, Tenn., said the vent ing could have physical and psychological effects. Many who did not flee the Har risburg area during the week- long nuclear crisis that began March 28, 1979, believed their fates were “in God’s hands,” the study revealed. PLITT Southern T&ajrrj 846 <>714 & 846-1151 CINEMA I ■Sometimes when the body is held captive, L the spirit is set free. 16-foot great white shark caught on California coast Croup wants to stop . S-Soviet meddling United Press International AVALON, Calif. — A 16-foot great white shark — one of the largest such sharks ever caught off the West Coast — was trapped in a fishing net three miles off Santa Catalina Island. “In the darkness we thought at first it was a whale, ” boat owner Rob bie Barker said Wednesday. “When we saw those teeth flashing, we back ed off fast.” Robert R. 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