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Tape testimony!
Can you blame Judge oohn J. Sirica?
The respected jurist, a man applauded by
some leading Republicans as being primarily
responsible for breaking open the Pandora's
box which has come to be known as the
Watergate scandal, has indicated he is less
than presuaded by the testimony of Rose
Mary Woods, President Nixon's personal
secretary.
Consider Woods' testimony: She said in
early November that she "couldn't have been
so stupid" as to erase accidentally any part of
the Watergate tapes when she was transcrihinn
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them for the White House. Then, recently, she
told of how she minht hawp oracJ o
8-minute segment of the tapes accidentally.
imuw, in concmaing ner testimony, she has
said she isn't sure she erased anything, she was
not sure she even played over part of the
conversation with the record button on, and
if she erased anything it could not have been
more than four or five minutes.
Contradictions are nothing new in the
Watergate mess. Any person who watched the
hearings this summer would have heard them
by the score. But Woods' conflicting
statements are more important than those. If
she lied in earlier testimony, the result would
be to reinforce the public's doubt, a doubting
of Procirw Mivnn-S innocence in the
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Racial harmony?
Dear editor,
Assuming the Student Bar
Association wants to recruit more
minority students in the interest of
racial harmony, I believe their program
is incompatible with their goals.
Anyone in competition with a
minority person for a position could
be expected to resent his race if he
receives more consideration merely
because of his skin color. Why not use
individual merit as a criterion?
Admittedly it's not the American way
of doing things, but it could be tried.
What is the SB A going to
recommend if they happened to
achieve 3.5 per cent minority lawyers
with only 3.4 per cent of the
population "minority?" Should the
extra one-tenth per cent minority
lawyers be disbarred or deported? The
SBA could move to cut minority
cover-up.
President Nixon's innocence would be
directly involved because Woods has been his
loyal servant for more than 20 years. If
someone was going to lie for the boss, who
would it be? Someone like Rose Mary.
The final jury in the Watergate case is the
public, and it isn't going to believe Woods. It
is time the President took Sen. Barry
Goldwater's advice and appeared before the
Watergate committee. There he could present
his case and be cross-examined. He also
should give up the tattered notion of
executive privilege. To do anything else is to
endanger further his chances of redeeming his
administration in the eyes of the people.
Michael (O.J.) Nelson
recruitings.
Prejudice only is going to disappear
when the attitude of the masses is
changed, and that can't be done by
executive order.
Randy Carlson
Even-Steven
Dear editor,
After attending the Nebraska vs.
Oklahoma game last week, I must
make a suggestion dealing with our
Nebraska pep squad.
Our cheerleaders would be more
effective if they "evened up" their'
squad. By this, I mean having an equal
number of guys and girls. The present
eight girlsthree guys is a ridiculous
size for a pep unit.
Oklahoma had a squad of many of
each, and it seemed as though they
kept their fans in constant excitement.
It's really kind of embarrassing to see
other evenly-proportioned squads on
the opposing side compared to our
female-dominated squad.
If nothing else, let's get more guys
than girls on our squad-after all, guys
were the original members of college
pep squads, right? I'm sure more
cheerleaders (in particular, males)
would help create more spirit and
enthusiasm among our faithful "Go
Big Red" crowds. For sure, more pep
leaders wouldn't detract from
Nebraska fans and Husker pride.
Name withheld by request
White House
dick solves
whodunit in
office oust
How the President rose from the muck of Watergate to
rVe lWleaneSS n his final three vears in office can now
Ti d V' 0f course' was his firinfl of Mr- Nixon
I he I resident had won universal admiration for his couraqo
and wisdom in handling foreign affairs. But as Mr. Nixon's
chicanery and deceit in dealing with domestic matters dragged
ml widened. ft tet the fwo
pJvT CU'minated one weekend in November as the
President read a good book to improve his noble mind, while
Mr. Nixon sat idly watching the Redskins on television
The President: Listen to 1 , s, Dick: "He is such an
incarnate hypocrite, that wh.-ver object he pursues he
pursues crookedly...Creeping alcng the ground toUe smai
end, he will always magnify rvery object in the way and
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Mr Nixon (humbly): They shouldn't say that about us, sir.
I II attack the press again immediately.
The President: That's a description of Uriah Keen Dirk
from David Copperficld. ! ' '
Mr. Nixon: Oh, it's nothing to do with us, then
The President (thoughtfully): I'm not so sure. Anyway I've
decided to come clean with every Congressman and coo, a
fully w.th the courts. You may have destroyed the tape of my
conversation with John Dean, but I'll give , h cfrn 1
recr lections of it that I dictated into my Dictograph V
anywhcS" SCCrCtiVC,y,: Gosh 1 them
The President: It's good I didn't trust you and also wrote
clown my m.ssmg recollections of that missing tape in my
Mr Nixon (slyly): If I'd known that, sir, I'd have used
something else to start the fire.
The President (angrily): At last I see through you you
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Mr. Nixon (fawningly): Only to assure your re-election,' sir
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The resident: 1 1 was you who advised me to defy Congress
and the courts.
Mr. Nixon (desperately): Only to preserve your presidential
powers, sir.
The President: No! You were trying to ruin me. Whv?
..... .Mixon (n,s numble mask dissolving): Because
everybody always loved and admired you, while they loathed
to myTeeTl ' """ Stand ' had t0 drag y0U down
The President (grimly rolling up his sleeves): Well they're
not going to have Dick Nixon to kick around any more.
The deed done, the noble President lived happily ever after
dealing openly and honestly with all. As for the disgraced and
sl.they Mr Nixon, he last surfaced in Tijuana, where he ran a
used car lot until run out of town by the Better Business
Bureau,
Copyrloht Chronicle Publishing Co. 1973
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friday, november 30, 1973