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Thursdav. August 23,1973
University Daily Kansan
The Players Was Liddy Most Fun Of All?
By BILL GIBSON
Kansas Staff Writer
Of all the kids on the block, G. Gordon Liddy must have been the most fun to play with. Liddy's tremendous imagination must have encouraged many a playmate to turn up the collar of his trench coat to play "Genstone."
Liddy is the man who formulated two of the capers that plunged President Nixon into his seventh crisis. He is only one of many colorful White House "operatives."
Liddy's first plan was to hire prostitutes to lure delegates to the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami onto a yacht with a crew of two and photographic equipment. The plan also involved bugging the telephones of prominent Democrats and kidnapping various radicals who might have rocked the boat at the Republican convention. Persons were detained.
His second plan would have cost only $200,000 and would have left out the
furniture.
Cost of putting the elaborate scheme into operation would have been $1 million.
But either deputy campaign director Jeb Magruder or Attorney General John Mitchell preferred the third plan costing $750,000 to build Cuban-Americans and former CIA agent James McCord to the Watergate hotel. The Cubans were to find evidence of Democratic connections with Cuban Communists. McCord was to bug the
No evidence could be found and the bug on Party Chairman Lawrence O'Brien's phone didn't work. So Liddy directed the crew to return. There they were caught and jailed
Thus began Watergate, the historic drama being played out today by a variety of actors.
Liddy had begun his career as an erratic FBI agent with a history of bungling his assignments. He had been fired from an anti-marjuana task force when he worked for the U.Treasury Department. He got in trouble once for giving a speech denouncing gun controls at a time when the administration was supporting them.
As an investigator with the "plumbers group," he directed the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. He later revealed that evidence of a break-in was left behind.
the judge that Liddy had to face after the Watergate story was revealed was feisty John J. "Maximum John" Sirica "Maximum John" got his title from his habit of dispensing maximum penalty sentences.
Liddy
The son of an immigrant Italian barber, Sirica had been a semi-pro boxer and a long-time speech writer for the Republican National Committee.
Sirica frequently broke the usual atmosphere of court decorum by asking tough questions that prosecutors were afraid to ask. Sirica often did this during his handling of the trial of the seven Watergate defendants. Sirica's touch penalties and handling him further, McCord to unravel his end of the tale, and that broke the Watergate case open.
"My mooto," Sirica has said, "to what you think is right at the time. It usually causes trouble."
Another player caught in the hurly-burly of the Watergate conspiracy is Charles Colson, former special counsel to Nixon. According to Magruder, Colson urged the approval of the Watergate bugging. Colson has denied the charge.
Colson has a reputation for supervising dirty campaign tricks. He hired demonstrators to pose as homosexuals backing McGovern. He also wrote a newspaper ad praising the bombing of North Viet Nam harbors without divulging that he or the Nixon committee sponsored the ad.
One of the President's defenders in the Watergate hearings was White House Special Counsel Richard A. Moore. Sen. Edward Cursney praised him as a man "without an ax to grind." But Moore's fallering memory had ever violated his attorney-client privilege, and the repeated question Moore replied, "Let my answer stand—whatever it was."
Nearly outdoing Liddy in the field of
Colson
espionage is former policeman Anthony T. Ulaneswicz. Using the code name "Tony", Ulaszewicz was hired as a political undercover agent for the White House. After retiring with 20 years experience on the frontline, Ulaszewicz "thus turned to investigating politicians."
"Tony" tracked prominent people and their relatives after getting tips of drinking problems, financial problems and sexual deviations.
Gordon Strachan, 30, was the youngest of those implicated in Watergate. He destroyed Watergate-related documents in his role as an aide to H. R. Haldenman.
Senator Joseph Montoya asked him:
"Many young people are writing . . . expressing consternation about the future of our country, as saying that public service is not as attractive as before. What advice do you give to young people? I believe they want to hear from you."
"Well, it may not be the type of advice that you could look back and want to give." Strachan replied, "but my advice would be to stay away."
Fishing, Not Nixon Draws Bay Crowd
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)—President Nixon has a house on Key Biscayne. But that's not the reason for the crowd these days on the bridges spanning Biscayne Bay.
Meat is the reason—or more precisely, fish is the reason. Anglers hoping to land a free dinner in these days of scare beef and salmon are going out in record numbers, even at midnight.
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Religious Activities at the University of Kansas
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
12th & Massacushets
Stephen Allen, Paulage. 843-7189
Sunday School—9:45 a.m.
Worship Services—7:00 p.m.
Bible Study—Wednesday; 7:00 p.m.
★
KU BAHAI CLUB
501 Indiana -842-3242
Pat Neve, Advisor, 842-9201
Regular meetings to be announced
★
BAPTIST, AMERICAN
Campus Center, 1629 West 19th
(west of Wilcox Hall)
Dick Orr, Campus Minister, 843-1018
Sunday Services at First Baptist Church, 8th and
Kentucky
Church St. School : 9:45 a.m.
Worship Services : 11:00 a.m.
BAPTIST, SOUTHERN
★
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION
Vyneke Joonee, Director, 843-8167, 842-6710
Kent Gee, Associate Director, 841-3608
Volleyball Game—3:00 p.m., Sunday, August 26,
1410 West 19th Terrace
Weekly Rap Sessions, Prayer-Share groups, and parties
Worship in local churches at 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
★
B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL
COUNSELLORSHIP (JEWISH)
Office—Kansas Union B-107,864-3948 Donald N. Miller, Counselor-842-7821
Services at Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive
★
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
Pete Broesame, Campus Director -842-1373
Bill Washburn, President -842-5786
Discussion Groups—Union Parlors: Thursdays,
7:00 p.m.
★
CATHOLIC, ST. LAWRENCE
STUDENT PARISH (NEWMAN CLUB)
Student Center—1631 Crescent Road, 843-0357
Chapel—1910 Straford Road
Recycle—841-3309
Father Matthew Habiger, O.S.B., Chapain
Sister Dolores Heldrick, Director of Activities
Sister Barbara Overman
Sister Barbara Overman
Saturday Mass at St. Lawrence Chapel—5:00
Saturday Mass at St. Lawrence Chapel—3-10 a.m.
Sunday Midnight Mass at University Lutheran Church, 15th and Iowa
Sunday Mass at St. Lawrence Chapel—9:30 a.m.
Sunday Mass at Woodruff Auditorium—11:00
Sunday Mass at St. John's Church—6:30 p.m.
Daily Masses at Danforth—12:30 p.m.
Daily Masses at St. Lawrence Chapel—4:45 p.m.
★
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION
Mrs. Phyllis Lawton, Advisor, 843-7437
Mrs. Pam Peck, Advisor, 842-6976
Meetings every Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel
★
EPISCOPAL
(CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION)
Center: 1114 Louisiana
Bernie Kintzgal, Director - 843-820-92
Evening Prayers - 5:00 p.m. Daily
Eucharist - 9:00 p.m. Tuesdays
FRIENDS, OREAD MEETING
Mrs. Anne Moore, Coresponding Clerk—
843-8926
Meetings—Sundays in Danforth Chapel 10:00 a.m.
★
Cree McAshon President-843 4455
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
Greg McMahon, President—843-6455
Fridays at 7:00 p.m. (place to be announced)
★
KU-Y (YMCA-YWCA)
Office: Kansas Union—Rooms 110-111B Eleanor Burchill, Coordinator, 864-3761
★
LUTHERAN—UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
15th & lowa—843-6462
Norman Stellen, Pastor (Missouri Synod)
842-4899
Don Conrad, Pastor (ALC & LCA) 842-4425
Worship—10:00 and 11:00 a.m.
Sunday Study—9:45 a.m.
Worship also af
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church—10:30 a.m.
Immacol Lutheran Church—8:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church—9:00 and 11:00 a.m.
★
MOSLEM STUDENT ASSOCIATION
★
Office and Library : Kansas Union 113B
Hassan Ghafoori, President, 864-3084
REORGANIZED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
1900 University Drive
R. J. Miller, Presiding Elder—843-8740
Worship—9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Midweek Fellowship Service—Wednesdays at
7:30 p.m.
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DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Support UNITED MINISTRIES
IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Campus Ministers:
Dow Baldwin and Otto Zingg
Campus Center: 1204 Oread -843-4933
Life Planning Center -843-4948
Sunday Worship Services at
Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont—10:00 a.m.
First Methodist Church, 946 Vermont—9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Central United Methodist Church, 1501 Massachusetts-10:30 a.m.
First Presbyterian Church, 32rd at low-9-10am
and 1:10am. on August 26 and Sept. 2 only.
West Side Presbyterian Church, 1124 Kasold Drive—11:00 a.m.
First Christian Church, 1000 Kentucky—10:15 a.m.
Second Christian Church, 1245 Connecticut— 11:00 a.m.
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