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Liddy: US must face reality
By M. WALTER CARROLL
Battalion Reporter
G. Gordon Liddy, mastermind of the
Watergate break-ins, told an audience at Rud
der Auditorium Monday night that the
United States and its people are engulfed in a
world of illusions.
Liddy’s speech on “A Retrospect of Ameri
can Politics” was sponsored by MSG Great
Issues.
He said illusions that Patrick Henry had
warned the American people against are now
deeply embedded in American politics and
society.
would have said it.
Liddy also painted a dim view of the U.S.
role in world politics, saying that today “the
world is a bad neighborhood at 2:30 in the
morning.”
The United States is now taking the role of
the “little old lady” in world politics, he said,
whereas a few years ago it was the “270-pound
Philadelphia Eagle offensive tackle.”
An illusion, Liddy cited, is the fact that
citizens of the United States are looking at the
world not as it is, but as they would like to see
it. People are not looking at situations realist
ically, he said.
Liddy said people are turning away from
the harsher aspects of life.
Examples he cited were using euphemisms
such as underprivileged and sanitary workers
for the poor and garbage collectors, respec
tively.
He blamed the abolishment of effective
intelligence gathering as a factor contributing
to the demise of U.S. power.
The top 15 friendly nations to the United
States have recently shut our country off from
any clandestine information, Liddy said, be
cause of indiscriminant leaks of top secret
information to the press and other sources.
Intelligence gathering is a norm of interna
tional politics, Liddy said. “Spies are the na
tions eyes and ears, and without them you are
blind and deaf.”
These examples, Liddy said, are how the
public has lost its sense of reality.
Liddy said another illusion is how the
words of Thomas Jefferson were taken out of
context and placed on his memorial. The peo
ple rearranged Jefferson s words, he said, be
lieving that if he was alive, that is how he
He said a spy’s job is to discover the capa
bilities of other nations, and decide what
these nations’ intentions are.
Another aspect which has added to this
country’s decline in world power is its loss of
military prowess, Liddy said.
He said today’s all-volunteer army is a “hol
low army” because of the low-quality
serviceman. He added that many of those in
the army now are in the lowest I.Q. range
allowed.
Liddy said it is unfair to the country to
populate the armed forces with these people
and expect them to defend it properly. He
said the country must have intellectual sol
diers like those of the Soviet Union.
Man cannot be taught how to use a firing
mechanism, controlled by laser, if it had ta
ken him two weeks to learn how to brush his
teeth, he said.
Consequently, Liddy said, you can count
on the draft returning. The American public
cannot continue to turn its back on reality.
He said the American people must be
ready for war and if the country is powerful,
others will not “mess with it.”
Liddy said comparison of the United States
to the Soviet Union is an illusion of equality
and will not work any longer because of the
U.S.S.R.’s dominance.
He said the only way to rebuild the Ameri
can people’s outlook on this society is to bring
the country back to its respected position.
But, he said, “There’s no cheap way to get
away from illusion.”
Liddy told the audience that during the
time he was on trial for his part in the Water
gate break-ins, and afterwards, he kept quiet
and refused to cooperate with prosecutors
because he was “the captain of the ship. ” He
said he felt nothing could be done if only
those below him on the ship spoke out.
Liddy said he “believed in the presidency
of Richard Nixon” at that time and still does.
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By NANCY WEATHE RLE Y
Battalion Staff
[Texas A&M professors became
jdents Tuesday as they listened
I a psychologist from the Person-
Counseling Center explain
lys to detect and help students
Bering from stress.
The psychologist. Dr. Nick
Bobrovolsky, was a guest of the
■niversity Mentors Program — a
■rogram in which faculty mem
bers volunteer to counsel stu-
l|ents about academic and person-
al problems.
* A professor should try to place
imself in the student’s shoes
hen counseling, he said.
“A counselor needs to become
mphathetic towards the person
ith a problem,” Dobrovolsky
aid. “Listen to what the person is
lying and then paraphrase it
ackto them.”
Paraphrasing puts the problem
n a different perspective for the
indent and enables him to con-
entrate on it, he said. But, he
uggested, “Allow the person to
Ik; you can't be an over-
istener.”
Dobrovolsky said some conn-
ion symptoms of stress include
inexplained weeping, withdrawl
md inability to sleep.
He suggested several simple
dutions to help alleviate stress
mce it is dedicated. “A common
nethod is deep relaxation,” he
aid. “At the Personal Counseling
inter we have tapes students
epttol an listen to so they can relax. ”
Dobrovolsky demonstrated the
class# :a P es ' messages by hypnotizing
lisaudience for 10 minutes. The
process involved making the pro
fessors aware of their breathing
habits and the way their bodies
felt while they relaxed.
“Relaxation is very important,”
he said. “Stress builds up and
then something makes it break,
sometimes so severely the person
might consider suicide.”
In a second part to the meet
ing, Ed Guthrie, assistant direc
tor of academic services, pre
sented 10 students who talked to
the professors about situations
they encounter at Texas A&M
which have been stressful and
frustrating to them.
Problems the students ad
dressed included communication
gaps between students and pro
fessors, prejudices of professors
to certain groups and qualms stu
dents have in approaching profes-
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