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by Jane Denison
United Press International
WASHINGTON Watergate burglar E.
Howard Hunt Jr., admitting he had lied for
two years to protect White House superiors,
testified Monday he decided this summer to
tell the truth because "these men were not
worthy of my continued loyalty."
His face flushed but outwardly calm. Hunt
admitted to a dozen counts of perjury in
three appearances before Watergate grand
juries last year and his final realization, while
Governors approve
$1 b il lion budget
by Don Baer
Staff Writer
The University of North Carolina Board
of Governors approved Monday a budget of
more than $1 billion to finance operation of
the University system during the 1975-77
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The $621,560,145 budget for 1975-76 and
$576,647,91 1 for 1976-77 will now be sent to
the Governor's Advisory Budget
Commission and from there to the North
Carolina General Assembly for final
approval.
Earl Britt, chairman of the Budget and
Finance Committee, said the budget was
$129 million less than the initial estimates
received from the 16 campuses.
Britt's report on the budget said the largest
part of the. request is for operation and
capital improvements expenditures for the
campus and the general administration.
According tp Jhe report, an increase of $15
million over a three year period for
operations is due to price increases in
utilities, books, supplies and equipment.
Woo quits
consumer
position
by John Perry
United Press International
RALEIGH Lillian Woo quit Monday
after six weeks as consumer advisor to
Attorney General James H. Carson Jr.,
saying she was expected to be a consumer
advisor "in name only."
- Woo issued a one-page statement
containing seven instances in which she felt
the attorney general's office had placed
"political considerations above the good of
the consumers in North Carolina."
Carson, campaigning in Asheville for
election next week, later said the statement
"must raise the unanswered question of what
political purposes her decision
accomplishes."
And he distributed a statement of his own,
challenging each of the seven points raised
by Woo, president of the North Carolina
Consumers Council before joining his staff
Sept. 16.
Among Woo's contentions were that:
Her job description had been
"drastically changed," leaving her with
"sharply curtailed" jurisdiction and
responsibility over consumer interests.
Her recommendation for a "prompt,
forthright, public statement" that this
month's approval by the Utilities
Commission of a $61 million rate increase
and fuel adjustment clause for Duke Power
Co. had been "overruled."
Her request for a law student intern was
rejected "in part because an aide to the
attorney genera! said he didn't know the '
applicant's political affiliation, that he might
even be a member of the Young Democratic
Club."
Her appeal for "prompt action" on a
legislative program for next year on
regulated industries, including utilities, was
delayed with a request that she "hold off"
dealings with the head of the regulated
industries division of the justice department
"for a few weeks."
Her request for a ruling on the legality
of loss-leader sales of milk at the retail level
"was deemed potentially too controversial
and has been delayed."
Her request for an investigation of the
banking industry was delayed with a request
that she "hold off on any investigation until
after the election."
Chapel Hill's Morning Newspaper
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in prison for his part in the bugging of
Democratic national headquarters, that the
White House would never help him.
"In the spring of this year I began to read
transcripts of the White House tapes," he
said, his voice beginning to break. 14 1 felt a
sense of rude awakening. 1 realized these
men were not worthy of my continued
loyalty."
Earlier in the day Hunt testified that he
mysteriously began receiving thousands of
dollars within a month after the 1972
burglary and promptly assured a friend at
Additional funds Of $1.7 million for the
first year and $3.8 million for the second year
of the period are requested for automatic
and merit salary, increases for state
personnel.
Britt said a 20 per cent academic salary
increase is requested to "allow the University
to maintain its ability to recruit and retain
faculty in the face of inflation."
Funds were also requested for the state
affirmative action plan, library program
improvements, expansion of the Area
Health Education Centers (AHEC) and
improvements to the North Carolina Central
University Law School.
Over $7 million has been authorized for
external aid and grants to private colleges
and medical schools in the state.
North Carolina Memorial Hospital has
been allotted $16.3 million for capital
improvements.
Not included in the budget were funding
feqesr for' the "'East Carolina U niversity
medical school, the proposed veterinary
medicine school and increases in aid to
private institutions of higher education.
Reports on these proposals will be made at
the Nov. 15 board meeting.
Budget requests for UNC-Chapel Hill
were about $140 million and included funds
for academic and health affairs and AHEC.
The educational planning committee
reported its approval of a resolution to
recommend a state supported school of
veterinary medicine. That committee will
meet Nov. 8 to determine the site of the
school. Both N.C. State University and N.C.
Agricultural arid Technical State University
will make formal bids for the school.
The committee also reported its denial of
requests to build a new state-supported law
school. i
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Bernadette Devlin in Memorial Hall Monday night. She had been scheduled
to speak here twice previously
Tuesday, October 29, 1974
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the White House he would remain silent so
he would not jeopardize Richard M. Nixon's
re-election.
Over strong defense objections, H unt said
he had been told that "the Big Man"
former Attorney General John N. Mitchell
had initiated and approved the bugging
operation.
Hunt said that when he was subpoenaed to
testify at this Watergate cover-up trial, he
was "faced with the hard decision of whether
to continue to lie or to tell the truth for once
and for all."
Realizing also, he said, that his four
children had "sensed all along" that he had
not been candid, he decided to tell the truth.
"Have you done so in this court room
today, Mr. Hunt, to the best of your ability?"
asked assistant special prosecutor Richard
Ben-Veniste.
"1 have," Hunt replied.
H is dramatic confession wrapped up a full
day of testimony for the prosecution against
five former Nixon aides accused of plotting
to cover up the Watergate scandal. The
defense was to cross-examine Hunt today,
and then Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy
director of the 1972 Nixon campaign, was to
be called to the stand.
Led by Ben-Veniste, H unt testified that he
lied repeatedly before the grand jury even
though he had been granted immunity from
prosecution for his testimony. The immunity
does not protect him, however, from being
prosecuted for perjury.
He admitted that he lied about his
contacts with various persons in the White
House about Watergate, that he had never
sought executive clemency, that he knew of
no higher-ups in the bugging, and that he
threatened to expose "certain seamy things"
he had done for the White House unless his
money demands were met
"Was that true or false?" Ben-Veniste
asked Hunt after each bit of testimony he
had given the grand jury. ; v V ' .
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by Betty Beam
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Public Transportation
Commission now has its seventh member,
Billy Andrews.
Alderman Boyd Ellington informed
commission Chairman Harriet Imrey of the
appointment Sunday night.
Of the other commission members, three
are in favor of another Carrboro bus
referendum and three are against it or
undecided, Imrey said last week. The seventh
might be a deciding factor in the
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"It was false," Hunt would reply.
In all. Hunt admitted to 12 false
statements before the grand jury and to two
more that he described as "evasive."
He said he began to recant his false
testimony in the summer of last year after a
number of other major figures in Watergate
began cooperating with the government, but
even then did not tell the full truth and as
recently as this past spring included lies in a
book published this year about his
Watergate role.
Hunt testified that it was made clear to
him that he would receive a presidential
pardon even before he was sentenced for the
.Watergate bugging.
He said that shortly after his wife was
killed in a Chicago plane crash in the
summer of 1 972, he decided to plead guilty to
the break-in rather than stand trial the next
month. He said he then sent his lawyer,
William O. Bittman, to make a "deep
sounding" of presidential aide Charles W.
Colson to see what could be done.
"I told him (Bittman) 1 felt the White
H ouse owed me something and if they were
ever going to be useful to me, now was the
time to help me out," Hunt said.
He said he was dissatisfied with the
response Bittman relayed from Colson and
so sent him back for further discussions. He
said Bittman and Colson believed Hunt
would get a light sentence if he pleaded guilty
but if it were a long sentence, "Christmas
comes around every year."
"What did that mean to you?" Ben-Veniste
asked.
"It meant to me that if all went well, I
could look to executive intervention on my
behalf by Christmas of that year," he replied.
He said he thought that because Teamster
President James R. Hoffa had been
pardoned at Christmas time two years before
and Colson had helped to arrange it, he
would get similar treatment.
sets transit post
commission's final decision.
"1 don't know much about a bus system
for Carrboro," Andrews said. "I'd rather not
comment until I meet with the commission
and see what the rest of them think."
During Carrboro's bus referendum last
May, Andrews didn't vote because he lives
outside the city limits.
Andrews' appointment fills a vacancy left
by the death of his father, Raymond
Andrews, who was killed in a car accident
last August.
Earlier last week, both Ellington and
by Lynne Barnes
Staff Writer
"The only peaceful way of the future is the way of socialism," Bernadette Devlin said
during a speech Tuesday night in Memorial Hall.
Devlin, who said she lost in her last election to the British Parliament because she is a
socialist, said "the only real problem of the future is whether governments will allow
tocialism through peaceful means or will they use violence to fight it. If they use violence, we
too must use whatever means are necessary."
Devlin, who at 21 was the youngest member of Parliament, began her speech by defining
the controversy in Northern lrel?d. "The problem is not just a medieval conflict between
two institutions; not just a Catholic-Protestant fight on the question of theology; not just a
British-Irish conflict, although that's closer; and not just a class revolution. The problem,
instead, is a . very complex combination of all these things-." v
The problem began 800 years ago, Devlin said, when the British decided to civilize Ireland'
They decided everything they did was right, civilized and progressive and everything against
them was ignorant, cannibalistic and heathen. So, they decided the mass of human flesh in
Ireland would have to be put to work," she said.
In the 18th century, Devlin said, when the natives and settlers decided they had more in
common than they had to divide them, "Britain decided she would have to do something to
prevent this growth of lower class-working class unity among people, so they did this by
creating and nourishing religious fear and prejudice."
Early this century, Ireland had a democratic vote to decide whether to stay under British
rule. Devlin said the state of Northern Ireland was formed when the British forced two
counties which had voted against British rule to join with four of 26 which vojed for British
rule.
"Britain then set up a state that was totally undemocratic," Devlin said. "The Catholic
minority could never hope to achieve any real say in the government of Northern Ireland. ,
There was gerrymandering so that as many as possible could not have the vote or use it for
real power. Until 1968 all Catholics were forced to live in one electoral division a Catholic
ghetto while the minority of the population lived in three electoral districts."
"In 1968," Devlin said, "the Catholic population in Ireland looked to America and saw the
civil rights movement in this country. They decided that if Martin Luther King could have a
dream, so too could they."
The Catholics made three demands, Devlin said for fair voting regulations and fair work
and housing allocations.
"We discovered that they (the British) weren't reasonable people, and it wasn't that they
didn't understand or notice, but they didn't care, because it wasn't doing them any harm.
"By the . time they got around in 1970 to giving us a fair vote and proving there was
discrimination in housing, no one cared. People realized you couldn't have justice inside a
British context," Devlin said. uv-
Britain then tried its final means of control repression, Devlin said. "If you break it
down today, there is a ratio of one armed enforcer of the law to every 1 5 population. How can
you call that a democracy?" Devlin asked. n .
"Getting Britain out of our country only makes a solution possible," she said. Then we
have to find our way forward, and to eradicate 800 years of British rule fears between
Catholic and Protestant, British and Irish. We must realize that what we have in common is
class. We are the people who put our heads and hands to work. The wealth and the resources
belong to us."
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vet school -favored
by Sandra Millers
Staff Writer
The idea of a new law school in the
consolidated University of North Carolina,
bit the dust Sunday in a meeting of a UNC
Board of Governors committee, while the
long-debated proposal to establish a
veterinary school in the state won a
favorable recommendation.
The decision of the committee on
educational planning, policies and programs
to veto plans for a new law school came in
agreement with a study recently presented to
the Board of Governors by the Research
Triangle Institute. The study indicated that
the number of lawyers soon to graduate from
Carrboro Mayor Robert Wells contacted
him about the position, 24-year-old Billy
Andrews said.
"1 want to serve," Andrews said, "but as
far as I'm concerned I'm not on it yet because
there hasn't been a meeting."
Probably one of the reasons he was
appointed to the commission, he said, was
because they wanted someone in the business
district.
Andrews owns a portion of Andrews' and
Riggsbee's Tractor Company on S.
Greensboro Street in Carrboro.
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Hunt, second witness for the prosecution
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existing North Carolina law schools will
exceed the future demand of the profession.
"The recommendation is certainly
consistent with the study prepared for them
by the Research Triangle and with an
internal study we conducted on the future
need for lawyers in this state." Dean Robert
G. Byrd of the UNC law school said
Monday.
Byrd said the idea of a new law school
within the UNC system was first proposed by
UNC-Charlotte.
"The Charlotte Board of Trustees drafted
a resolution requesting that the possibility be
explored by the Board of Governors." Byrd
said. "Appalachian also filed a request
expressing their interest." East Carolina
University was a third school hoping for the
new law complex.
Byrd said a major reason behind the
investigation into the possibility of another
law school was the growing number of law
school applicants.
"Although it's levelling off now. the
number of people seeking admission to law
schools has increased rapidly since 1968."
Byrd said, "and this raised some question as
to whether or not the present facilities were
adequate."
In its second recommendation, the
committee endorsed the proposed veterinary
school, but remained undecided over where
to put it. The committee delayed its final
decision on the site until November 8. one
week before its recommendations are
presented to the full Board of Governors on
November 15. In the past, the Board has
usually supported committee decisions.
Both North Carolina State University in
Raleigh and North Carolina Agricultural &
Technical in Greensboro have expressed
interest in the ve4rinary school.
North Carolina State Information Officer
Hardy Berry said Monday NCSU has
included the veterinary school in a long
rartge planning study, but denied that NCSU
is actively seeking the school.
"I think there is an interpretation that
State is lobbying for the vet school," Berry
said. "We are aware of a real need for it in
North Carolina, but State is not making
arguments pro or con. We're simply stating
what agricultural and research support Is
available here."
Berry said he personally does not know of
a better location for the veterinary school in
the state and listed NCSU's qualifications
for supporting the school.
"State has a very 'long, distinguished
history in animal science." Berry said. "We
already have a disease diagnostic lab and
strength in all the sciences. Also, the related
work in agriculture is significant."
The committee's decision on Nov. 8 will
not be an easy one. While NCSU does offer
the strongest concentration of veterinary -related
programs in the university system.
A&T is a predominantly black university,
and the Board of Governors is committed to
work toward the establishment of programs
on black campuses which will equalize
enrollment profiles by attracting white
students.
Di-PhiSG
debate tonight
The Dialectic and Philanthropic
Societies and UNC Student
Government present "An
Introduction to Student Government"
at 8 tonight in the Dialectic chambers,
3rd floor New West.
Speakers will be Student Body
President Marcus Williams, Campus
Governing Council Speaker Johnny
Kaleel, Student Attorney Nita
Mitchell and Honor Court Chairman
Charles Atkins. A question-and-answer
period will follow the
speeches. The public is invited.