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JMarch 31, 1977 i
Election Reforms Needed
Last week’s Student Government Association
elections were the most interesting in recent years, in
several respects. To begin with, there were four can
didates for the office of president. Two of the can
didates, Annette Ellis and Ray Silverthorne, were
defeated in the primaries. The other two, Jones Fuquay
and Barbara Stone, survived to face each other in the
run-off. Jones Fuquay won the run-off by eight votes, 201
to 193, to become the new SGA president-elect. In other
elections, Donna Daniel defeated Connie Lail 191 to 174
to become the new Head Cheerleader-elect; Jack
Lassiter defeated Richard Cline 50 to 27 to become the
new Day Student Treasurer-elect, and Jay Rollins
defeated Lyn Braycher 54 to 19 to become the new Day
Student Secretary-elect.
This year’s election was marred by controversy. The
charge was made, and we feel justly, that friends of the
two presidential candidates solicited votes illegally near
the voting place. The rule, as stated in the handbook,
calls for no campaigning within fifty feet of the voting
place. Friends of both candidates campaigned in the
lobby of the Student Center and Hines Hall — a violation
of the campaign rule.
Mike Sawyer, an Executive Board member with a
good deal of experience in the SGA, said that he felt the
rules were not broken maliciously, but were rather
errors based on an ignorance of the rule. We tend to
believe this was the case. The blame if any is to be
leveled, lies with the SGA and their handling of the
election. More SGA officers or members should have
been present near the voting places to make sure that
campaign laws were not broken, intentionally or
unintentionally. A few more in each voting place could
have accomplished this. In the future, elections should
be handled more carefully; an election marred by
controversy is a poor way for any candidate to have to
enter office.
An Ominous Sign
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and chief arms ne
gotiator Paul Warnke will return from Moscow today
after meeting with Communist Party Chief Leonid
Brezhnev on the subject of a new nuclear arms agree
ment. The first round of the SALT II talks ended in
failure. The Soviet Union rejected as “inquitable”
President Carter’s poposal to limit each side to 1,800
nuclear missies. At present the United States has 2,320
nuclear missies, the Soviet Union 2,660. The failure of
the first round is an ominous sign. We wonder if the Sov
iet Union is genuinely receptive to the idea of the even
tual elimination of all nuclear weapons. We don’t think
they are, but we hope we’re wrong — the threat of global
destruction is a nightmarish one.
A Welcome Defeat For Gandhi
It’s hard to go to class on a beautiful afternoon when you can sit by
Lake Wilson instead.
Noted Briefly...
A TRAGIC AVIATION
DISASTER
KLM Pilot: “We are takk.
off.” Pan Am Pilot: “We atesffl
on the runway, ... What’s be
doing? ... He’ll kill us alll"
Monday, March 28, will g,
down in the record books as tin
date of the worst aviatios
disaster in history. 578 peo^Je
died in the fiery collision ot tw
747 Jumbo jets preparing to take
off from a small island in the miii.
Atlantic. 76 survived; all were
aboard the American-owned Pan
Am jet. None of the passengers ot
crew aboard the Dutch-own^
KLM jet survived. Commercial
programming in the Netherlands
was interupted to announce the
tragic news, after it had lieen
announced, solemn music was
played — a national memorial
service to those who had died in
the crash.
This was the tenth such
disaster since March 1974 when a
Turkish DC 10 crashed near Paris
killing 346. Since 1974 2,437 people
have died in aviation accidents, li
would seem that, as with the
automobile, the heavier the air
traffic, the better the chance oi
accident.
Viewpoint
Candy Jones and the CIA
A Story of the Abuse of Power
WASHINGTON — Anyone who
cares about free elections, a free
press, freedom to dissent and all
the other institutions of personal
freedom will cheer the defeat by
India’s voters of Mrs. Indira
Gandhi, her son, Sanjay, and the
Congress party that they have
dominated.
And before the cheering dies,
we will say a little prayer that
this election does not
boomerang, giving credence to
those who say that “a little
dictatorship” and police state
repressions are necessary in
poor countries.
But let us first applaud a voter
revolt in which Indians made it
clear that that country of 610
million people is not owned by
the Nehru family. Since in
dependence 30 years ago, with
only a brief period when Lai
Bahadur Shastri was prime
minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and
his daughter have ruled India.
Mrs, Gandhi long ago measured
the head of son Sanjay for the
crown once she grew tired of
ruling,
I am glad that the voters
turned them out peacefully. It
has become a self-serving
“truism,” uttered often by Third
World leaders, that their people
are too unsophisticated, too
volatile, too this or that, to be
permitted the luxury of rival
parties and free elections.
No society is so poor or so
uneducated that any man or
woman should arrogantly
decree only he or she can guide it
to a proper destiny. It is wrong
for an oppressive Chung Hee
Park in South Korea, and it is
wrong for a benevolent Kenneth
Kaunda in Zambia or Julius
Nyerere in Tanzania to assume
some almost-divine right to rule,
I also applaud India’s voters
for ousting Mrs, Gandhi because
she had dragged the world’s
largest democracy into the in
creasingly large camp where
government officials find a
variety of reasons to snuff out
freedom — especially press
freedom.
At least temporarily, India's
voters have said no to this
authoritarian search for a
security blanket.
By TOM TIEDE
NEW YORK — (NEA) — If
Betty Grable was the No. 1 pinup
of the 1940s, Candy Jones was
No. 2. You remember Miss
Jones. She of the classic profile,
the blond waves, the magazine
advertisements. Photos of her in
a polka dot bathing suit were
posted on World War II wall
lockers from Guam to Greece.
She was every man’s dream.
Whatever happened to Candy
Jones?
Not much good, to hear her tell
it. Now nearly 60, and her
features hardened, she tells of
an unnatural aging process that
is either a monstrous fabrication
or the most scandalous story of
our times. Miss Jones says that
until recently, and for 12 years of
her life she was a human guinea
pig and helpless zombie of the
CIA.
As she remembers it, her
relationship with the spook
agency began in 1960. She was by
then well past cheesecake posing
herself, and was operating a
Manhattan modeling school. One
day there was a burglary in a
room near her office, and in the
process of helping authorities in
the investigation she became
acquainted with the FBI.
The time frame here is im
portant, she says. It was 17 years
ago. J, Edgar Hoover was still
idolized. The federal govern
ment was still to be trusted.
Patriotism lived. And so when
the FBI asked to use her office
as a mail drop, a place where
secret letters could be sent,
Jones was obliging, and excited:
“I thought I was helping my
country.”
In time, according to Jones,
the CIA replaced the FBI as
recipient of the woman’s eager
willingness to assist the
government. Jones says CIA
agents asked her to become a
messenger for them, to deliver
and receive information which
for security reasons they could
not do themselves. Still excited,
“naturally I said that I would.”
Here the Jones story tiirns
sour, and, if true, most
menacing. She says she was
introduced to a CIA “control
agent,” who was also a doctor.
She says this man hypnotized
her, “because he said I looked
tired.” Thereafter, she adds, the
doctor hypnotized her each time
they met, which was many times
over a period of months.
Jones says that though she did
not know it at the time, the
hypnotism was the CIA’s way of
controlling her mind. And to
facilitate the control, she says
the agency gave her two iden
tities. She was plain Candy
Jones when not on CIA missions,
but she became someone named
Arlene Grant for use in in
telligence and experimental
purposes.
Jones says her alter ego was a
terrifyingly real person. “When
I became Arlene Grant I looked
differently, I sounded dif
ferently, I even had different
handwriting.” Arlene Grant
wore a dark wig. She had legal
identification, including a
passport. Jones says, “For
years I was both people, and I
never knew when I’d be one or
the other.”
And why? Why would the CIA
want to control Candy Jones or
create Arlene Grant? Miss Jones
has no firm answer, but her
speculation is sizzling. If the
agency can turn people into
slaves, she says, it possesses the
ultimate psychological and
intelligence weapon. Jones
swears she was part of a CIA
experiment to gain this weapon.
As she views it now, the CIA
experiment on her was both a
success and failure. The agency
succeeded in regulating her for
years, but it failed to maintain
its grip. Jones says she began to
regain control four years ago,
when she married, when her new
husband became aware of her
erratic behavior, and when he
Forum
To the Editor:
I would like to tell ACC
students what happened one
night last week at their most
frequented bar. Two friends of
mine and I rode to Reubens. We
got there about 10:00 or 10:30.
We were there long enough to
drink one beer each, talk to a few
friends, and play a game of
footsball. Reubens was crowded
with ACC students. My friends
and I are also ACC students.
Around 11:00 we decided to
leave. We were standing be
tween the bar and the door, and
we were going to tell the guy that
gave us a ride that we were
going to walk back. Just then a
man asked my friend for his I.D.
He pulled out his wallet and got
his license out. As he did this he
commented on the fact that
almost every time he came in
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then helped her break the bond.
Today she says she’s free. But
she is not so sure she’s safe. She
worries that since the CIA can do
longer control her, it may decide
to eliminate her. This is why she
has gone public with her story. A
book has been written about her
fears, and a movie is to be filmed
this year. Publicity, she reasons,
is a form of protection.
Most likely the publicity ml!
be largely negative. Even Jones
admits her story is an un
believable one. Many of her
friends agree, she says.
When asked about her charges
the CIA merely sighs and asks in
turn for proof: “Does she have
names or places? This is a
preposterous thing she’s
telling.”
Unfortunately for Candy
Jones’ credibility she has no
proof for her story. She can
document almost nothing. She
does not remember important
names. She says she was paid
for her services to the CIA but
she has no receipts, no
signatures; “They didn’t pay me
directly, they would just pay one
of my bills, and always in cash.”
All the woman really has are
memories, recorded on tape,
many of them allegedly made hv
her husband while she was
asleep. Is this enough? Even
hardened critics of the CIA think
not. But then, as Candy Jones
asks in her own defense, “What
if I am right, what if my story is
real, and what if we don't do
anything about it?”
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FREDERICK CLARIDGE
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