Mondav. September 10, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Fair Play & the IFC
Will the real R. Dennis Mullen please stand up?
rnat was a key question last week in the chaotic case of Jeffrey Titus, Great Bend freshman, former Delta Tau Epsilon fraternity, last of last week, resident of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity (TKE).
Last Thursday the Interfraternity Council, meeting in an executive session, upheld a previous ruling of the IFC's judiciary council: TKE was to be fined $80 for allowing Titus to live in the TKE house in violation of IFC rush procedures.
That move capped a week of closed hearings, phone calls to the Kansan from clever imposters and otherwise odd goings-on in the case
On Aug. 31 the Kansan was contacted by R. Dennis Mullen, Shawnee senior and president of TKE. Mullen said that the IFC planned to fine TKE $500 for the fraternity on probation for six months for allowing Titus to live in its house after depledding at DTD.
The Kansan contacted Bruce Frazey, Hill City senior and the IPFC of IFC. Frazey said the IPFC's executive council had announced that the IPFC had scheduled a hearing last Tuesday to settle the matter.
Frazy asked the Kansan to "not play up the story" until after the hearing, when, he said, he would have had to tell the Kansan had about the case.
The Kansan obliged.
After that hearing, into which Kansan reporters were not allowed, Frazey refused to comment about the judiciary council's decision. The IFC first had to respond to a "formal statement," be said.
Therefore, after the Tuesday hearing, the Kansan contacted Mullen. He said TKE had been fined $80 and told that Titus had to leave the TKE house. Mullen
promised the Kansan that TKE would "fight this thing."
Early Wednesday morning a clever impostor phoned the Kanas. The caller, claiming to be Mullen, retracted practically every statement the real Mullen had made Tuesday, and went so far as to say, "We (TKE) plan to go along with everything IFC says on this."
That was radically different from what the real Mullen had said earlier. The Kansan double-checked by phoning the TKE house and calling the impostor answered the phone and told the same lies again.
The Kansan then published a statement containing the impostor's statements.
Wednesday morning the real Mullen, justifiably angry, phoned the Kansan and protested the attack that had been attributed to him.
The point of this involved tale is simple: the erroneous story that appeared in Wednesday's Kansan as a result of the phone call could have been that it had permitted Kansan reporters to attend the Tuesday hearing.
That was pointed out to Frazey
Wednesday.
Thursday night the IFC again refused to let Kansan reporters attend the portion of its meeting involving the Titus case.
IFC officials have told the Kansan that the case was a "sensitive" matter that should be downplayed in the paper in the interest of fairness to both the IFC and TKE.
The case is comparable, they say, to court cases. In recent years the press and law enforcement people have learned the hard way that the press must be careful not to influence the outcome of court cases.
Fine. But reporters are allowed to attend court hearings. That is why the courts have set up a rule.
—Chuck Potter
Campus Editor
As it turned out, an out one of the investigations led into dead ends or proved unrelated to an assassination plot. However, in total, the incidents caused disruption of Nixon's plans and gave the Secret Service its most serious ambush
NEW ORLEANS—For a city that seems to thrive on conspiracies, real or imagined, New Orleans may have outdone itself (self) in 2015. The President Nikon's visit here on Aug. 20,
Federal and local law enforcement officials were kept busy investigating no less than five separate and unrelated incidents that at various times were thought to be parts of one or more plots against the life of the President.
Readers Respond Lobby Stance 'Misrepresented'
Profiting on Paranoia
De-Bugging Trade Booms
LOS ANGELES—In 1972, according to Tom Walsh, his private detective agency received about a dozen debugging requests, and the agencies about having somebody else bugged.
Here, I am in complete agreement with Buckley. I don't like the idea either and would not support such a proposal. It is true that I support the recommendation but the article fails to mention that this person is on the fifth level in the chain of command, preceded by (among others) the students of the member organization and the members' associations and the board of directors.
BY WILLIAM CLAIBORNE
The Washington Post
Nowhere in the statement of purpose and objectives of the report is there even a mention of higher education or for lower tuition. And it was my impression in the discussions with other student body presidents this summer which activity should not be the direction of ASK.
Customers requesting debugging increased "1,000 per cent" and requests to bug somebody else began coming in two or three times a week. he said.
If I might call his attention to House Bill 1099—an act relating to rental dwellings and dwelling units. Enactment of this bill would provide minimum health and sanitation standards for such dwellings. I don't believe Emporia is unique in having a sub-standard
By MIKE GOODMAN The Los Angeles Times
"Hopefully this 'Watergate paranoia' will continue," declared Walsh, adding that his CosiOfficial Protective Service Inc. of Los Angeles grossed $227,000 last year. He doubled this year. About $7,000 a month is coming in just from debugging services.
How Fear Foiled a Nixon Visit
To the editor:
Then came Watergate.
From the Kansan: "The organization would hire a librarian to express student opinion on such issues as lower tuition and greater funding of higher education in the
It is not the purpose of this letter to interfere with or undermine the workings of the KU student government. Rather, it is intended to present another interpretation of a report on the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK)—a report that I believe has been grossly misrepresented in an August 30 Kansas article portraying the thoughts of students.
"It's unfortunate, but that's where the action is." Justice added.
In particular I refer to the following remarks:
Buckley states that he doesn't think that ASK can develop a singular opinion of him.
LIKE OTHER PRIVATE detectives,
Justice said the recent influx of customers
reflected a wide range, from housewives to
stockbrokers, and often included elderly
"approaching senility" who for no apparent reason think they're being sped upon.
Walsh's story of zooming public interest in electronic snooping was repeated, often happily, by many of those who specialize in it.
"Watergate has created a wave of paranoid," said John Justice, a private lawyer.
But several professional debuggers also reported that they rarely find bugs.
Charging a minimum $25 a room to check for listening devices, Justice said he had made more than $5,000 since January, and charged the $100 for the same services two years ago.
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One of the feared "plots" here was a case of mistaken identity that led to a shootout in the Sangre de Christos Mountains in New Mexico and the arrest there of a hapless former policeman, who, by his own account, had snow Nixon planned to visit New Orleans.
The plot purportedly was hatched by
was spending more time than ever explaining to people that the "clickers" they are caused by the complex workings of a system, not somebody tapping their phone.
"I've checked a thousand phones since I've been here (16 years), and I've never found an actual tap," said Enrique, adding his remarks will calls up the calls down a little.
Walsh, whose fee ranges from $15 to $150 an hour, said he has found a bug in about one out of 20 cases, often in the phone system.
TWO OTHER INCIDENTS were found to involve nothing more than simple theft, and another resulted in a windfall of arrests for detectives of the bank robbery detail.
But Justice said he had never found a bugging device, except one or two times when clients planted bugs themselves to see if he could find them.
The police, the FBI and the Secret Service are left with what they regard as one serious plot to shoot the President during his scheduled motorcade along bustling Canal Street on the way to a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention.
The local telephone company usually will check a phone and lines for bugs if a customer is insistent enough, but usually it won't. The local telephone company checks because it must be done by a repairman.
revealed assassination scare since John F. Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas
"In fact, there's a whole lot of bugging on out there," said John C. Hall, president of Security Unlimited, a Los Angeles private detective agency with 88 employees.
But there is a lot of illegal bugging go on, several investigators said.
Private detectives don't like to talk
"IT'S ALL THESE people over 60. They keep hearing these clicks," said George Enriquez, a repair and equipment superviseur at the company. Enriquez said that since Wakeau began
... bugging may have increased almost as much as debugging since Watergate.
But several private investigators agreed confidentially with Hall, who felt bugging may have increased almost as much as debugging since Watergate.
publicly about their bugging exploits because it is a felony in California to bug somebody else, or even to possess most types of bugging equipment.
Hall, who spent three years as a local policeman and seven years in military intelligence, said there are some situations where he may be done legally by a private citizen.
For an initial one-month fee of $500, Hall will lease bugging equipment, show how to hook it to z phone system, and show how to install a tape recorder "in the attic."
Hall said a bug was found this summer in the home of a wealthy Los Angeles area man who is involved heavily in politics but is not an elected official.
"Business (debugging and the like) is up 50 per cent over last year," Hall said, linking much of the increase to the psychological impact of Watergate.
A BUSINESSMAN WHO is going out of home want to monitor his spouse's phone.
A so-called, "black market" loose-leaf catalog of bugging and debugging devices was made available to the Los Angeles Times.
"He's got his fingers in a lot of pies. It could be anybody," Hall said.
housing problem for many of our students. Nor do I believe that there are students who would object to the establishment of a classroom in which Alleguas will suffer from these conditions.
The easiest part of bugging, it seems, is obtaining the bug.
Most of the items were supposed to be sold only to police-type agencies ordering from official invoices, but one private investigator said "Just add 50 per cent to the police price" and a citizen probably could get what he wanted.
This is only one example of a bill we could lobby for. The possibilities, however, are
I ask the Student Senate to read please the report thoroughly and to draw their own conclusions. Our experiences of a few years ago should show that we need new avenues to express our views and I believe that ASK can provide us with one of those channels.
Victor Miller
Associated Student Government KSTC. Emporia
Persisting on Watergate
To the editor.
To the editor:
Eric Meyer's editorial (Kansan, Aug. 30) asks the question, "Will Watergate gatealize our government?" He replies, "America cannot enjoy the luxury of political sniping by Ervin and his gang in this time of foreign and domestic crises."
It seems appropriate to challenge Meyer's contentions. He claims Watergate with its cover-up activity included only a "small, dirty core" of men, and as such, does not deserve more attention. He claims that because it has not yet been proven that the President knew of watergate or the conspiracy, he cannot and therefore the Ervin committee should stop investigating him. Finally, Meyer shares what appears to be a rapidly growing feeling that the country has had enough of Watergate.
If the only illegal campaign activity had been the Watergate break-in, then Meyer's first contention might be right. But it was not a solitary act and Meyer is not right. It was an act of unethical and illegal acts committed by Nixon men is long—and it is still growing.
Meyer misses the point if he feels relieved that Nixon himself has not yet been proven guilty. The President has grossly failed the task of getting Mr. Obama in his administration or not. If he knew and now won't tell, he lacks the moral and ethical character which a president should have. If he did not know, he lacks the essential administrative and leadership skills he possessed in his staff and the country. The latter qualities are as important as the former.
Clearly, the country must try to find remedies for the disease that spread during the Nixon administration's drive toward reefification. If Congress is to prescribe legislative cures then it needs to know where to apply the medication: to the office of president, to the executive branch organization, to campaign officials or to the president himself. In other words, fervently hope Ervin's committee investigates fully all aspects of the matter, the President included, so that its recommendations to Congress are well-founded.
Finally, the reason we have had so much of Watergate and related liosis is that we neglected them so completely during the crucial months before the election. The country rightly needs to know how so many unethical and illegal activities could be carried out by Nikon and not by Obama, and not during the campaign. This, and how to avoid its re-occurrence, is the enormous problem before the Ervin committee.
It is a real domestic crisis, for we cannot afford another administration like Nixon's. It compels Ervin's committee and Attica to refuse to answer the answers. We as a country will gain by supporting these groups. If Meyer cannot support them, perhaps he will resign to watching those television shows he would now show so dismissed during the hearings.
Don Elbel
1st year law student
Prairie Village
Ruage
Kansas City, Mo. soni
Nancy Barber
St. Louis, Mo. senior
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But New Orleans is a conspiracy-conscious city. It was here in 1964 that District Attorney Harry Applegate applied to link the Kennedy Assassination to a plot involving Clay Shaw,
THE FIVE SEPARATE facets of the assassination scare here began to surface three weeks before Secret Service advance teams and started security preparations.
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The U.S. Attorney's office here uses federal conspiracy statutes more than any other jurisdiction in the 5th U.S. Judicial Circuit and possibly more than any other similarly sized jurisdiction in the country, according to one federal prosecutor.
In another city at another time, the incidents might not have caused as much cumulative alarm among the protectors of the President, and might not have resulted in the cancellation of an event that it was known Nixon was looking forward to.
members of the Black Panther party, and although the police admit they don't have enough evidence to make arrests, federal agents are still keeping five suspected conspirators under constant surveillance in hopes of breaking the case.
They also fear for the life of an informant who, believing that the police have not held information as confidentially as they should have, is no longer cooperating with the authorities, sources close to the investigation said.
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It was against this background that the police and federal authorities began facing some startling developments early in August.
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The first occurred when police learned that a group of about a dozen blacks, believed linked to the underground Black Liberation Army (BLA), moved into the Parkchester Apartments, a complex of 13 residential-income housing units in the central city.
POLICE SOURCES SAID the group was holding up banks here to finance the opening of a New Orleans BLA chapter. San Francisco detectives, who came here hoping to establish a link between the BLA group and the 1971 bombing of a police station in which an officer died, reported seized here had been traced to California.
While the BLA group has not been linked to any threat against the President, police sources said that the presence of the suspects and the knowledge of their background was cause concern for concern at the time of a presidential visit.
"How would you feel with a bunch like that in town and the President of the United States coming?" asked one law enforcement official.
When it learned about the alleged Black Panther plot, the Secret Service asked Police Chief Clarence Giarussu to arrest the two men. The police said Giarussu refused, claiming he did not have
enough evidence, and the suspects were put under watch instead.
The third alarm for the police and the Secret Service attracted the most public attention, but turned out to be the least menacing aspect of Nikon's visit. It infuriated him by his refusal to former New Orleans policeman known variously as "Punchy," "Popcorn" and "The Cat," depending on whether he is walking the streets of the French Quarter or roaming through the Taos, N.M., commune where his wife and three children briefly lived.
FOUR DAYS BEFORE the President's Aug. 20 arrival, Secret Service agents conducted a routine security "sweep" of the Canal Street motorcade route, interviewing shopkeepers and looking for possible trouble spots.
One agent entered *Waterbury*的Drugstore, a cluttered all-night pharmacy at Canal and Camp streets on the Fringe of the city. A police officer in a burglarist (bank clerk named Rongpau) Burkhardt
Burkhardt said that at 6:30 a.m. on the previous Sunday, she heard a breakfast customer say, "Nixon ought to be shot, and if no one else is big enough to do it, I will." Burkhardt complained before about the President and the economy. The Secret Service showed Burkhardt several photographs of people who were believed to have been involved in the 2015 shooting of President Burkhardt picked Gaudet's photograph and made a positive identification.
On Aug. 22, when Gaudet finally gave himself up after a chase through the mountains of New Mexico, Burkhardt retracted her positive identification.
The charge of threatening the life of the President was then dropped but Gaudet is still being held on $100,000 bond for firing shots at pursuing police officers.
Coupled with Black Liberation Army worries, the alleged Malone plot and the Gaudet incident were two other eleventh-incidents that contributed to the decision by the Secret Service to cancel the motorcade.
Late on the night before Nixon's arrival, a police uniform, a badge and nameplate were stolen from a parked car, and officials identified the owner. The suspect could include a gunman impersonating an officer. Then, a few hours later, Police Chief Garusso's车—equipped with a two-way radio—was stolen from the driveway of his home in Brooklyn, La. The key had been left in the ignition.
Police have now ruled out any connection between those two incidents and the alleged Panther plot, but no such confidence was given. It was before the Presidential visit, sources said.
Taken together, all of the incidents convinced the Secret Service to cancel the trip.
Ms. Win at Foggy Bottom
By MARILYN BERGER
(C) The Washington Post
WASHINGTON—“Miss . . . has the zeal to succeed, which is unusual for a woman”*
“Miss . . . would be an asset to any office she occupies, particularly because of her miniskirts.”*
These and other excerpts from old efficiency reports have kept the crowds at the State Department cafeteria laughing this past week. They are included in a poster which is part of the commemoration of Women's Week at Foggy Bottom.
Such remarks in efficiency reports are no laughing matter and have now become "indammissible comments." That means that any reports turned in with references to a person's sex or marital status are sent back for revision.
In the "old days," as they are known here, meaning before 1971, it was not uncommon for women in the foreign service to be deprived of their jobs when they got married and to be held back just because they were women. Gladys Rogers (no relation to Secretary of State William Rogers) is head of the office of Women's Affairs Department in 1971. Mrs. Rogers recalled that in her previous job as an inspector she found many women who lost their status and accompanying benefits upon marriage.
both the passage of the Women's Suffrage Amendment and the "sweeping, new policies to improve the status of women" adopted by the State Department in 1971.
Now women no longer have to resign, and an effort is made to assign couples to posts together or near each other. "We have 70 sales services couples now," Mrs. Rogers said.
Secretary of State William Rogers signed a proclamation declaring the last week in June as National Labor Day.
The drive for women's rights at State has followed a quiet, bureaucratic line, with demonstrations noticeably absent. But, said Ms. Cordova, the director of searching in the street does us a bit of harm."
"It is thus doubly appropriate... to set as the theme for that week the unassailable proposition that women's rights are human rights." Rogers said.
The men appear to be getting the idea. It is doubtful, for example, that anyone these days would be writing into a fitness report about their experience with the poster outside the cafeteria, such as:
"Although Miss — has equine features,
she does not detract from her charming
person."
Or another: "Despite the fact that she married recently, her performance was excellent."
In the 1973 fiscal year, Mrs. Rogers said, there have been no fitness reports with sexist remarks. The year before there were between 20 and 25, all of which were sent back. These went more along the line of:
"She has done well for a woman in a difficult situation."
References to a woman's charm or attractiveness are forbidden, unless the report also indicates that the person is doing an excellent job despite such attributes. In the old days before 1971, Mrs. Rogers said, "You have to contain remarks about a woman's sex."
Those days are gone from the bureaucracy; not, evidently, from other men.
Distributed on each of the cafeteria's tables—just inside the door adorned with those male chauvin remarks of yesteryear advertisements by the MAIA REMA Association "for a package tour to the Miss America Pagent Weekend, Sept. 7 to 9."