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" ! K Durham accuses AIM of planning disruptions 'S By Dick Piersol Former FBI informant Douglas Durham, speaking at the Sheraton Inn Tuesday, ac cused the national leadership of the Amer ican Indian Movement (AIM) of planning violent disruption of the nation's Bicen tennial celebration in 1976. Durham appeared at the behest of the Support Your Local Police Committee, an ad hoc organization affiliated with the John Birch Society. He said he is current--ly on a speaking tour of 70 midwestern cities. Durham said he infiltrated AIM in March, 1973, during the occupation at Wounded Knee after the FBI requested him to photograph AIM members. Soon after the FBI requested that he try to learn the location of AIM arms caches, sources of money and plans for violence, he said. The FBI paid him $1,000 monthly for these services during the following two years. During that time, he became National AIM pilot, Personal Affairs Manager and personal bodyguard to AIM leader Dennis Banks, National Security Director, Direc tor of National Offices, National Admin istrator, and International Charge D'Affairs for AIM. Before infiltrating AIM, Durham said he was a Des Moines policeman for three years, later a vice squad officer, an intelli gence operative for federal narcotics and customs agencies, an informer for the FBI on Black Panther activities and an expert in locksmithing and disguise, Durham said he learned of what he called AIM'S terrorist plans for the Bicen tennial while he was Banks' right hand man.".' He said he soon learned that the Indians of the Pine Ridge Reservation were victim. ized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). He added that the bureaucracy needlessly controlled the Indians' lives, and caused the rise to power of AIM and its leaders, Clyde and Vemon Bellecourt, Russell Means and Dennis Banks. Durham said AIM convinced the reserva tion Indians that they would help them out of their wretched condition. "The plans authored by Banks went far beyond what could be called help," he said. According to Druham, AIM has created a terrorist atmosphere on the Pine Ridge Reservation which is unhealthy for Indians and whites alike. "Indians and whites who were once friends are how taking pot shots at one another," he said. "Anyone is likely to be shot on the reservation, not just FBI agents." Durham said the shooting of two FBI Continuedonp.il -A Photo by Tad Kirk Douglas Durham,- former American Indian Movement informant for the fbi. " . - ; ' Yy n n Wednesday, October 8, 1975 volume 99 number 25 lincoln, nebraska xon Webraskpbo S .'' : GF fin a a to meet demand for vo-ag teachers By Randy Blauvclt , ' There is "a crying need" for more voca tional agricultural teachers, Nebraska Governor J. James Exon Tuesday told about 50 members of the NU Alpha Tau Alpha honorary agricultural fraternity. "There are 137 vocational agriculture programs in' Nebraska with 150 instructors, encompassing some 8,000 young people who are now taking vocational agriculture, to some extent, in our high schools," Exon said. "That's not enough." Exon said potential teachers need to know the "tremendous opportunity" in teaching vocational agriculture and in en tering the agri-business community, add ing that more students of agriculture will be needed in the future. 8,000 not enough "8J0OO student"!. . .that's not nearly enough to supply the needs and demands of the ever-growing emphasis on agriculture snd ih ro!? 1M Nebraska agriculture must Helath center charges AS UN to. cju By Liz Crumley A resolution calling for a committee to investigate the University Health Center's late emergency fee probably will be intro duced to ASUN next week, according to ASUN Sen. Scott Cook. The health center (UHC) charges $7 for physicians services' after . 5 p.nu said director Ken Hubble, v The $7 charge was established this fall, because of 'increased medical costs and staff, he said. About eight students a day come after the center is closed, he said. Ns$st dldc : Until two years ago, a $5 fee was charged for after-tour service. In the fall of 1973, a night clinic was formed because all students could not be m:n during the day, ha said. Thli essentially extended VllCs hours until 10 p.m. There was no charge far students ( re quiring a physician during the night cUnfc or after hours, Hubble laid. Ai tppotatmciit system helped tSeviatt play in the future, as we attempt to fill the needs of a protein-starved world," Exon said. Exon said agricultural food product'on, besides giving stability to the American dollar, is the one thing the United States can produce cheaper, better and more of, than any other country. For this reason, he said, the story of agriculture must be told. "I wonder how well we have done in Nebraska," Exon said. "Certainly we have not done as good a job as we should have." ; Exon, referring to Secretary of Agricul ture Earl Bute's visit to Omaha last week, said high-ranking agricultural leaders con tinue to "drive a wedge" between the food producers and the food consumers. "We've got to stop that!" Exon said. "Because. . .the interests of the producers of food and the consumers of food are one in ..the .same. They want a good, high- estion fees the night clinic, which was not financially feasible, he said. The late fees amount was determined by the health center's student advisory council and approved by Ken Bader, vice chancel lor for student affairs, Hubble said. ASUN Sen. Cook said he thinks ASUN should have been consulted about th charge, ' " V "We are elected representatives of the students and should be consulted about tilings which affect them " he said. lilts s&tetcs Cook said the fco hits the AtlJetic and Recreation Depts. hard, because .their activities are at night. ' According to Cook, even if the Athletic Dept. uses ffacu. in th center only alter hours, they ire charged. The health center is supposed to be ser vicing the university and cater to the uni versity community, not to their own needs," Cock s4. . f labile csdouted it costs $30 every quality product and plenty of it at fair prices to all." To tell the agricultural story, Exon said more than the ISO vocational agriculture instructors will be needed in Nebraska. Ha told the group it was their job to create interest in agriculture to attract the necessary teachers. . After his speech, Exon answered ques tions from the audience. One question asked was how labor unions could be stopped from halting grain shipments to Russia. 'The labor unions today arc not stop ping the shipment of grain to the Soviet x Union, although it has been politically pop ular to blame them for that," Exon replied. "The only people stopping the shipment of grain to the Soviet Union is the President of the United States and his secretary of agriculture." "I don't believe that a George Meany, or a thousand George Meanys, should have, or iiujiw irr"' '"" '"'"""'"l Photo by Stavt Boer nor Gov. J James Exon docs have, the right to tell us where we're going to ship agricultural products over seas," Exon said. "But there has been a myth spread that George Meany is doing it," he added. f r inside Dr. Kesjseth llulhte University ' . Ifeslth Center director. ' time a student comes to the health center. "The $25 & student fays out of student fees for the center amounts to a type of ' prepaid Insurance," he said. Most of the charges the student must pay, including lab work, medication and . X-ray is 50 per cent of what a doctor would charge downtown, he aJJed. Cook sgreed, but said most people who would go to a downtown doctor "aren't paying one-third of their taxes for support of their hospital." , Student fees are a typa of tax, he said.' Shooting: Sen. Ernie Chambers releases new information on the Sherdell Lewis death. p.6 Searching: The committee searching for a new UNL chancellor steps up its activity p.l 1 Securing: An attempt to decrease "lost" books from UNL's libraries ............ p.S Also Find: Editorials. p.4 Arts and Entertainment p. 12 Sports - . . . . p.H Crossword .' . p.16 Short Stuff... p.2 Weather , Wednesday: Mostly sunny with souther ly winds. Highs in the low 80s. Wednesday night: Clear arid cooler. Lows in the mid-4 Os. , : ' TI&y:Il!ghsirithelow70s. t Y i - j : . Y " i 1. , i "r ' . : '. ' 4 "i ;. "i- 4 ' i' 8 f