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■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.
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/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.
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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
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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.
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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
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“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. Johnson, curator of the
Cabrillo Marine Museum, con
firmed the identity of the huge fish
lying dead on the deck. Barker, 23,
had shot it with a .22-caliber rifle.
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