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Feb. 13 25C Draught Beer 0 Register for Three Atari Home Video Games to he given away Sunday Feb. 14th Aggie Arcade — Woodstone Shopping Center behind Hamburgers by Gourmet 913-H Harvey Road College Station 696-0616 Open Noon to Midnight Seven days a week <CV) e> 0 tickets on saue jn rflSc, rupoek swf off ice CLASS of 85 Pj-Ae tS^ekAman 05a// “I ’T HAVE MISSED national Battalion/Page 1 February 10, Nixon expected to appeal Court OKs tapes’ release United Press International WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday the government may release some 6,000 hours of Oval Office re cordings taped secretly by Richard Nixon. The decision was a major de feat for the former president, who has waged a lengthy legal challenge to the General Service Administration plan to release the tapes at 11 regional listening centers across the nation. The ruling by the LT.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a federal dis trict judge’s decision that mak ing the tapes public would not violate Nixon’s privacy rights. “We find Mr. Nixon’s consti tutional challenges unavailing,” the three judge panel said in a unanimous decision that Nix on’s lawyers are expected to appeal to the Supreme Court. Nixon has claimed the tapes should be presumed confiden tial unless the government proves otherwise on a tape-by- tape basis. But the court said Nixon, who resigned Aug. 9, 1974, in the Watergate scandal, “can claim no such broad right of privacy to his life while with respect president.” The court explained: “For presidents and ordinary citizens alike, a personal privacy interest protected by the 14th Amend ment must find its source in a legitimate expectation of pri vacy. “Mr. Nixon while president could have had such an expecta tion in some materials, such as diaries or other communications respecting personal matters un related to his public duties, but not in materials relating to the conduct and official duties of the presidency.” In oral arguments before the appeals court, R. Stan Morten- son, Nixon’s lawyer, contended he should be permitted a pre sumption of confidentiality re garding the tapes, stemming from both executive and per sonal privilege. “Idle conversations are de serving of the presumptive pri vilege,” Mortenson said, adding that Nixon’s challenges against release of the tapes “shouldn’t have to be made on a case-by case basis.” Nixon may still make such case-by-case challenges. In addition, Nixon wanted the government to shoulder the burden of proving the indi vidual tapes non-confidential. The GSA had warned that allowing Nixon a presumption of confidentiality would place a heavy burden on government archivists. With 6,GOO hours of tapes, the GSA calculated it would need 2 million man-hours to produce such transcripts — a task that would take 200 years with cur rent staff levels. Nixon was appealing a 1979 ruling by U.S. District ]udge Au brey Robinson, who concluded release of the tapes would not violate privacy. He approved a General Ser vices Administration plan that included establishing 11 rt|i al listening centers acrossth don. Some tapes, perttf Through th( only to Watergate coi g 2 basket ball s< tions, have been availabli University of T public listening at the Nj (0 the gi or y of Archives. ■The Longho Robinson also had ruledli} 16 national i an ernment archivists couldscISjn sophom taped diaries recorded or wh 0 cont '' o c< taoelts to determine wk pl os ' ve of fense Nixon’s thoughts were scorm § reflections that could nul G^ wa ^ made public. ■niniscent or i » . assistant coc As an alternative to tnroT - es yj ie 5. out the GSA plan, MortcL^ in Texas ^ told the appellate judges 2 ference charnp i could send the case backtci ^y acker pla\ district court, where ) Jesses and t would seek to uncover mo:: an( i pi a yi n g V vel deuce about the governme: an u ^ defeated velopment of the plan, ||^ v i ori court rejected that suggest® twasagamt Opposing Nixon’s Plvon and probal were the Justice DepartJ| er not struck and the Reporters Conui^ a jf time intern for Freedom of the Press, Q SCHULMAN 6 THEATRES 775- 2468 2002 E.29th 775 2463 SHARKY‘S MACHINE 7:45 9:45 MODERN PROBLEMS 7:55 REDS 6:50 8:50 CINDERELLA 7:25 9:40 ABSENSEOF MALICE China’s purge affects hundreds of thousands United Press International PEKING — Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping’s purge of lef tists, corrupt officials and bureaucrats began taking on massive proportions Tuesday with reports that hundreds of thousands of officials will be sacked or sent to factories. Deng, 77, had not appeared in public for four weeks, hut di plomats agreed his campaign to revamp China’s ruling structure was gaining momentum. “The man is in charge, and his policies are being carried out,” one West European diplo mat said. 7:15 9:40 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK The Peking Daily newspaper reported the arrest of another Communist Party member — this one a factory official in Pek ing who engaged in a kickback scheme that cost the state more than $65,000. More than 50 people have been reported arrested or expelled from the party within the past 10 days. “We are like swallows build ing our nests in a socialist edi fice, whereas they (corrupt offi cials) are damaging this edifice like rats digging holes,” the newspaper said. Although corrupt officials were one target, Deng’s drive to streamline the bloated bureauc racy and eliminate holdovers seemed likely to affect hundreds of thousands of people. “The purge has hardly be gun, but it seems it is going to he quite drastic,” a Third World di plomat said. The pro-Peking Ta Kung Pao newspaper of Hong Kong re ported one-third of China’s cen tral government personnel — about 200,000 people — would be eliminated through mergers of ministries and departments. The newspaper, considered a semi-official source of informa tion because of its access to Chinese officials, said the “sim plification” would cut the num- |A shot went bbed the re lance, fractui tecap and s< is leg. |: IT lost Wai game 69-59 to incentive to win | The oddity Longhorns hav lociated with The MSC Committees Cepheid Variable and Aggie Cinema present her ot government unitsbvil,, . Provincial governments'G la ' faced similar major si# else - Hubei province party boss® Ningfu was quoted assay® “rectification, reform anty posal” process had begunil province. “It is decided by the piil cial party committee onjtj of the cadres in offices co| led directly by the pro| party committee and goij inent will go to factoriestoj first-hand experience,” ] said. Another sign of the poa scale of Deng’s purge camel radio broadcast from Heba| vince, far to the north of saying 50,000 inconi teachers had been disi there in recent months. The broadcast Saji teachers got their jobs d| the 1966-76 cultural re 1 and were unqualified diplomats believed their al orientation also markedll as targets. Disciplinary actions so have been reported in liii dozen provinces and diploc say they expect the cornf cases to begin dragging cials of the central bureai in Peking as well. 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