Miami Hurricane, April 03, 1981

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Volume 57. No.40
Friday, April 3, 1981
Phone 284-4401
Bleak Picture Of U.S.
By HOWIE BURNS
Editorials Editor
G. Gordon Liddy, one of the truly mysterious and ominous figures in recent political history, painted a bleak picture for the future security of the United States’ national interests. He named government complacency and illusionary perspectives as the key reasons why America now faces an uphill battle in the quest for supremacy.
Liddy pointed out on several occasions the need for better U.S. intelligence around the world. Being a former FBI agent, he expressed extreme distaste for America’s de-emphasis on intelligence:
“The nations of the world want to know two things about their neighbors in this world. One, what are the capabilities of the other side.
What do they have that they could deploy either for us or against us if they wanted to. Second, and far more difficult to ascertain, what are their intentions.”
Liddy stressed the need for a viable “clandestine branch” of American intelligence. He outlined the two options he felt would be available to the U.S., without a clandestine branch, in the event of a possible threat to the national interests of the U.S.:
"Option one — do nothing, let the situation deteriorate and just go down the drain along with your national interests in that area. Option two — the other extreme — go to war.”
With a secret intelligence branch, however, Liddy believes the gov-
ernment would then have the crucial third option it would need to avoid the other two.
He referred to the role of the U.S. in getting the Shah of Iran back on the throne for “25 years more of policies in that area roughly parallel to our national interests. Last time around |the hostage crisisj we t>uldn't do that ... The CIA has been gutted."
Relations with the Soviet Union, according to Liddy, are at a crucial stage. He pointed to the quality of American hardware and the quantity of manpower as the two vital areas where the U.S. is lagging behind the Soviets.
Liddy also theorized that a long range draft would soon be reinstituted by the Pentagon.
Midway through the lecture, Liddy began to express his views on the Watergate affair.
He blasted Judge John Sirica for his pre-trial handling of the jury selection. Liddy called Sirica “stupid”, and said he was a “hypocrite”.
At age 42, Liddy was sentenced to 21 years in prison for his role in the Watergate debacle, and it was in prison, he said, where he finally learned to appreciate his overall educational prowess. “There is one weapon which happens to be the | most powerful one you could have had in the first place, that they can-1 not take away ... your education."
Liddy described how he was able to use the power of knowledge, especially in intelligence tactics, to intimidate the guards and get himself transferred to nine different prisons in a span of four and a half years, until "finally, they threw me out of
"The Romans had it
correctly when they
said, if you want
peace be prepared
for war — right now
we are not prepared
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G.Gordon Liddy
the whole system.”
He was later asked about his proposed death wish on columnist Jack Anderson in 1979. He blasted Anderson for publishing CIA wiretaps of a private conversation between Soviet President Brezhnev, Prime Minister Kosygin, and other top Soviet officials.
Liddy claims that the director of the CIA at the time, Richard Helms, j asked Anderson not to publish the 1 dialogue, and Anderson “promised ; he would not (publish the informa- ; tion].” Anderson subsequently pub- j lished the information anyway.
As a result of the published story, j Liddy said, top CIA officials were i being killed. Based on his original “promise”, it was felt that Anderson would continue to publish top-secret information, thus the only way to stop Anderson would be to kill him.
Liddy said: “Murder means art
uniustifiable homicide ... inasmuch as Anderson was now killing our people abroad, and there was no other way of stopping him, we were justified.”
Following the lecture, Liddy was questioned about a variety of topics.
QDid you threaten to kill Jeb • Stuart McGruder?
A1 think that’s technically cor-• rect ... He | McGruder | was j complaining about a memorandum of law 1 wrote which he couldn’t : understand .. . and he was so imprudent as to lean his arm heavily on my shoulder ... I said to him, • Jeb, if you don’t take your arm off my shoulder, I’m going to tear it off and beat you to death with it... |it| caused him to run frightened from the room and tell everybody 1 threatened to kill him ... I was just
going to kick his ass.
I am going to throw out a few names, and I*d like for you to give me a brief response to each.
Q Richard Nixon
ÄA very competent former • president of the United States of America.
Q.
John Dean
A Were we all together on the • decks of the Titanic, John Dean would be struggling to get into the lifeboat ahead of your mother.
Ronald Reagan
A* Potentially an excellent Presi-• dent. It is too early to assess his Administration ... but he's a man who clearly understands how the government of the United States works, in marked contrast to that of his predecessor.
Q
Jimmy Carter
A Jimmy Carter was a man pro-• ficient in prayer, but if the governance of the United States of America could be likened to a big complex diesel engine that isn’t running, and it wasn’t, praying over it 24 hours a day will not get it to turn over. You need a mechanic. Jimmy Carter didn’t know the crank shaft from the cam shaft.
Q
J. Edgar Hoover
A A man, who before he was af-• fected adversely by advanced age, was a superb administrator and the best leader the FBI ever had.
Q
Jack Anderson
A Jack Anderson has admitted • recently on a television station in Chicago that he doesn't write an awful lot of his columns anymore, and I think that's probably good. His column is now carried in the Washington Post on the funny pages and I think that quite appropriate.
q John Sirica
A Stupid, but that wasn't his • fault. A hypocrite, and it was [his fau!t|.
QWhat do you feel will be the • main trouble spots for the U.S. in the 80’s and 90’s?
A Directly to our South would • be the biggest, Central and South America, next, I don't know if it'll be the Polish situation or the oil areas of the East.
Q
What do you think is the U.S. • future on the world scene?
A That depends on if we are • smart enough to change course. The Romans had it correctly when they said — if you want peace, be prepared for war — right now, we are not prepared and thus we have virtually seduced the Soviet Union into making ever-increasing encroachments until finally we might draw the line.
How soon do you predict a national draft?
Q
Alt depends on the events in • Central America, the Mid | East, and in Poland.
Miami Hurricane/JONATAN UTZ
This UM Student's Car Crashed On Ponce Last Week. Coral Gables Police Responded Quickly, According To Bystanders
Students Shocked By Shooting
Aid Office Announces Work Study Cut And Passing Of Deudline
By HARRY H. RIMM
Editor Emeritus
“Any student who didn’t turn in their financial aid applica-tions by Wednesday will have a slimmer chance of receiving aid — it’s not fair to those who apply on time,” according to Judy Marty. UM’s Associate Director of Financial Aid Services, “We went all out to tell students of the deadline through the newspaper, our office and tables we set up in the Student Union.”
Although next year’s deadline has already passed, a large
number of students are extremely
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Work Study. According to a March 24 memo sent out by Marty, students on CWSP will not be permitted to work beyond April 24, the last day of classes at UM.
Emilio Garcia, Director of Student Employment did clarify, however, that a department may retain the student employee past that date if the department for which the student works absorbs 100 percent of that student’s salary. Presently, departments contribute 20 percent towards the student’s paycheck.
In response to that memo, Jack Chevez, who is a work-study student at the library, called together a meeting of fellow work-study students last Friday afternoon in the Student Union.
“What we wanted td do is find out more or less what is going on with our financial aid awards,” Chevez said addressing the group of over 25 students.
concerned about a cutback in one
“We are here to serve the students — we're part of Student Affairs and we want you to know that we're here to help“
— Judy Marty Financial Aid
By JOHN OUDENS
Assistant News Editor
President Ronald Reagan was shot Monday.
That’s the fact, stated simply and quietly, though the message's meaning is neither simple nor quiet. Such were student reactions on the UM campus: quiet shock.
“I’m shocked," said one student, walking alone beside Lake Osceola late in the afternoon. “I just don’t have anything else to say.”
“I don’t know how to react,” said another.
A small crowd of students was watching One Life to Live in the Lower Lounge of the Student Union earlier in the afternoon when ABC interrupted to broadcast the news of the shooting. The crowd grew quickly as passers-by were drawn to spoken reports of gunfire and the president: a few expressed relief when it was first reported that the president was not among the wounded.
Later, when it was broadcast that Reagan had indeed been shot, the growing crowd gasped, recoiled, and then silenced and leaned forward to hear more.
By 3:30 p.m. there were 50 or more students in and around the couches and chairs in front of the television. Another 30 were standing silently around the set normally used for WVTS broadcasts, and on the second floor of the Student Union, in the WVTS room, a half-dozen stood in front of three televisions playing the reports of the three major networks. All watchers were quiet.
A few of them stated their reactions just be- I fore 4 p.m.
"It was inevitable,” said Franco Reichberg. a student. “He’s |Reagan| killed all these programs and jobs. A lot of people got fired. A sicko got jjissed and tried to blow stfnebody
away.”
Maria Garcia-Duquesne, a freshman, began to express her agreement with Reichberg, then balked.
“I’m shocked,” she said. “What else can I say?”
“I think it’s disgusting," said Chris Tedesco, a student. “It’s pretty bad when the president can't walk outside without somebody taking a shot at him ... where are our morals?”
By 4:15 p.m. 30 or 40 persons sat in the Rathskeller, watching the reports come across the seven-foot screen. George Weiss, a sophomore who said he had begun his day’s work at the Rat at 3:15 p.m., said there were few more people there when he arrived than the sparse crowd which now drank beer and enjoyed an early dinner.
“Yeah, there were about 50 or 60 | in the Rat| when I got here,” he said.
“People had showed up for the soap opera special,” the break on drinks the Rathskeller offers during daytime television programming hours.
Ron Moss and Scott Murphy, two law students, aired their reactions to the assassination attempt after eating a meal in the Rat.
“I guess I'm scared of [Vice President George] Bush becoming president," Moss said, though he added that “I’m not surprised that it happened ... his |Reagan's] programs have been hurting a lot of people."
Murphy disagreed. “Reagan was actually getting things done," he said. "If he dies . Bush doesn't have the same programs . .
“Anyway,” he added, "it’s kind of hard to criticize a guy who's been shot."
The exterior of the Memorial Classroom Building was very quiet a¿ 4:30. Few. if any,
students sat in the few benches on the grounds around the center of the building.
One student who, he said, had been in class all afternoon, did not hear of the shooting until 4:35 p.m.
A freshman who asked not to be identified first said, “It’s terrible,” then added, "I’ve been getting a lot of slack about it.”
She explained that she is from Evergreen, Colorado, the reported hometown of John Hinckley, Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan.
The Richter Library was pin-drop quiet at 4:45 p.m. Drake Corrigan, a sophomore who had been working in the library for an hour, said the library had been very quiet the whole time — even "a little more quiet than usual.”
Corrigan also offered his own reaction to the shooting.
“It's barbaric." he said "It just shoyvs how little mankind has progressed.
"It also shows how much we need arms control in this country," he continued. “You can go j out and buy a gun right now and come back and 1 shoot me. You can’t do that anywhere else.
“My main reaction is that the president of ; the United States is our leader . . . there couldn't | be a more serious blow to our nation."
From the Student Union to the Memorial j Classroom Building to the Richter Library, the ; University was very quiet Monday afternoon Students who had heard of the attempted assa-sination strode quickly and silently from class to home and the television: others who were ! just hearing of it said "No!" and "Really?" and picked up their own pace, now eager to hear the details of the story which was quickly grabbing the nation and the world in its incredible, dumbfounding grip ^
At the Hurricane's request, Marty along with Garcia were in attendance to respond to the student's questions and complaints.
Speaking to the group, Marty stressed that the student awards are not being cut, but rather the time in which they may be earned is being pushed up a week to the last day of classes, which is April 24. Few students work during that week anyhow, due to final examinations.
"I'm trying to give the students an ample notice of two pay periods and let them know that we’re not cutting off their money, just the time in which they can earn it.
“What you are experiencing here is typical of what is happening at colleges around the country. Yet we’ve been extremely fortunate in getting additional CWSP funding up to the point that there's been a 300 percent increase in the amount of CWSP funds granted the University over the past 5 years." Marty continued.
One work-study supervisor from the library was extremely upset with the April 24 cutoff date since the library virtually runs on work-study students. He suggested that the students form a coalition to help fight financial aid cuts at a national level.
When asked to explain the reasoning behind the cut. Marty said that ! “>t >s an unfortunate set of circumstances — many students have used more of their work-study awards earlier than ever before and it was necessary to push up the date since federal funds ran out.”
When asked by the Hurricane what cuts are upcoming in the important Guaranteed Student Loan Program, Teresa Rubino, Director of Student Loans replied cautiously.
“We're still waiting to hear if there's going to be a ceiling on the amount of income earned to qualify for the Guaranteed Student Loan. I’d like to point out however, that banks are still processing applications under the old rules, so it would be wise for students to get their GSL applications in as soon as is possible.
When one student asked about next year, Chevez replied by saying "you should expect almost as much as you received this year, but you have to keep in mind that tuition has gone up with the cost of living.
Although Marty could only give the group her "guesstimate" of the future, she did say that the government has given the University slightly more CWSP monies for next year than were received this year.
Concluding the meeting, Marty said “We are here to serve the students — we’re part of Student Affairs and we want you to know that j we’re hete to help.”	^