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WEATHER Volume 71, Sunny today, low Number 66 tonight in the 30's. Tomorrow: partly Thursday, cloudy and high in the December 4,1975 50's. • . Duke University The Chronicle Durham, North Carolina New report on FBI activities; scandals date back to FDR By Nicholas M. Horrock In the three memorandums, signed by then FBI Direc c. 1975 N.Y.T. News Service tor J. Edgar Hoover and directed to Katzenbach, it was WASHINGTON-The Federal Bureau of Investigation noted that the FBI had installed an electronic bug in hotel supplied secret dossiers, conducted wiretaps and carried rooms.occupied by King on three different occasions. out physical surveillances al the behest of Presidents Katzenbach. in a 63-page prepared statement, told the from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard M. Nixon in an ap committee he could not recall ever receiving the parent effort to curry favor with the Presidents, the staff memorandums despite the fact that they each carry his report of a Senate committee revealed Wednesday. initials in what appears to be his handwriting. In a 16-page report based on documents from FBI files The surveillance of King, the report said, included 16 and testimony of former officials and other witnesses, the room bugs, all in hotels during 1964 and 1965. and eight staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence re- wiretaps. - ported the following: The committee report said thai the "FBI intelligence — Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy authorized FBI system developed to a point where no one inside or out wiretaps on correspondents of The New York Times and Latest reports concerning FBI activities show- side the bureau was willing or able to tell the difference Newsweek magazine in the early 1960's in an effort to that Lyndon Johnson, too, was involved in some between legitimate national security or law enforcement discover leaks of information. rather shady business with that agency. (UPI information and purely political intelligence." — Kennedy also authorized FBI wiretaps on six photo) American citizens, including officials of a domestic gov ernment agency, a Congressional staff member and two registered lobbyists for foreign interests, in an investiga Ryan discusses UN resolution, tion of efforts by "foreign interests to influence United States economic policies." — The FBI supplied to President Lyndon B. Johnson materials from its files on seven newsmen. The report speaks on behalf of Palestinians named three of them as David Brinkley of NBC, Peter By Anne Morris terim agreement, and a comparison of the Palestinian_ Arnett of The Associated Press and columnist Joseph The recent U. N. resolution denouncing Zionism has conflicts in Lebanon and Israel. Kraft. Committee sources said the bureau also gave the focused international attention on continuing Israeli dis Regulations unfair White House information on Peter Lisagor of the Chicago crimination against Palestinians, Father Joseph Ryan said Since the proclamation of Israel as a state in 1948, Ryan Daily News and John Chancellor of NBC. The names of in an address at York Chapel last Tuesday night. said, the emergency defense regulations granting the the other two newsmen were not disclosed. Criticizing the American government, press, and Israeli government the right to restrict entrance and exit The staff report also confirmed news reports of an ef public for evading the Palestine issue, Ryan said "the pro from certain areas have been used to deprive Palestinians fort by President Johnson to obtain background informa blem of the Palestinians is our problem," adding that, of land that belonged to them before they were dis tion on Sen. Barry Goldwater's staff in 1964, when although facing it "provokes a crisis of conscience that's possessed during the 1948 emergency. Goldwater was the Republican Presidential nominee. very painful and bitter." Americans "simply cannot ig 'The U. N. resolution places the question of whether Johnson as well as President Roosevelt had asked the nore it"any longer. Zionism invokes the dispossession of Arabs squarely bureau to check the backgrounds of persons who wrote to A member of the Jesuit order since 1951, Ryan has before the whole world," Ryan said. the White House opposing foreign policy decisions. spent most of the last 28 years in the Middle East, most Israel was established as a "state that's essentially The report came in the second phase of committee recently in Beruit. Lebanon, the scene of violent civil war Jewish," said Ryan, "but it's now essentially dis hearings on the FBI. At Wednesday's session the commit between the Moslems—many of whom are Palestinians— criminatory to non-Jews." He said the Zionist ideology tee made public a series of memorandums that indicated and the ruling Christian minority. has become a "massive denial of rights to Palestinians." that former Atty. Gen. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach was Ryan's lecture, jointly sponsored by the Duke Arab Calling for Israel's withdrawal from the territories aware that an electronic bug had been planted in the American Association and the Triangle Friends of the gained in 1967, along with a re-establishment of fun room of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in a New York Middle East, focused on the ramifications of the U. N. re damental Palestinian rights. Ryan said the present in hotel in 1965. solution, the implications of the present U. S.—Israel in- terim accord will not bring peace, but could lead to an ex plosion of the current conflict. Volunteer labor becomes mandatory Differs from Lebanon The crisis in Israel differs from that in Lebanon, Ryan explained. The Lebanese conflict centers on the Palesti Food Co-op is reorganized nians' demand for a secular democratic state in a society where religious affiliation is essential to the political By Marie Grayson cheese with, and how to coordinator of the Co-op, anyone willing to con structure. If you walked into the use simple adding membership at the Co-op tribute a dollar for dues and In Israel, however, de/actoand de jure conditions have Food Co-op yesterday to or- machines. "Excuse the has been decreasing lately. four hours of his time each kept Arabs from being "first class citizens," he continued. der your groceries for the mess," Pierre Chalaron "We've been short of volun semester. Located in the "Israel is proclaimed as the only democratic state in the week, you walked into a apoligized, "We're undergo- teers and people had to Baptist Student Center on Middle East." Ryan said, although "the Lebanese system flurry of volunteers asking ing reorganization this wait too long to get their Alexander St. just off Cam is much more democratic," as all participation in the gov each other where to tape up week and it's a bit hectic." food. Then those who did pus Drive, it is open Wed ernment is determined according to groups' percentage of posters, what to cut the According to Chalaron, the work worked as much nesday from 4 to 6 p.m. for the total population. submitting orders and as seven hours a week Illustrating the irony of Israeli discrimination. Ryan Thursdays 6 to 8 p.m. for sometimes." said a Jew from Durham could become an automatic picking up orders. Israeli citizen because of his Judaism, while an Arab in Everyone who ordered The new posters taped to Nazareth can not reclaim his land or obtain automatic food yesterday, filled out a the walls divide labor into citizenship. membership application four committees: cheese, Ryan said that, although the persecution of the Jews produce, organic, and ad along with their request for under Hitler's regime is "a source of anguish we can ministration. Each member food. "We're going to keep never feel deeply enough." it is not a legitimate justifica signs up to work wrapping, good records now," ex tion for the essentially discriminatory nature of Zionism. pouring, weighing, typing. plained Chalaron, "and be 'The question of right is crystal clear," said Ryan, ad sure every member does his or handling cash. ding that U. S.'s refusing to give hope of recognition to share of the work. Till now We didn't need so much Palestine in the interim agreement is an invitation for in there've been too many organiza arlier." creased violence. f re e- loaders." Chalaron explained. "In the To encourage every past, we always has plenty The Office of Student Activities is working with member to do' his share of of volunteers. But priorities the Durham County Department of Social Services to work, a new policy will change, and people aren't acquire sponsors at Duke for 80 underpriviledged suspend the membership of as enthused anymore." For children at Christmas. All student organizations, liv anyone who has not volun the first time since its ing groups, fraternities, sororities, off-campus living teered at least two hours by beginning in fall of 1971, groups, departments or individuals interested in mid-semester. After he the coordinator receives a sponsoring a child or family for Christmas gifts fulfills his obligation, he modest salary. should stop by 204 Flowers to sign up for a family of will again be permitted to "We're trying some or participate. :i or 4 children or an individual child. Any questions ganic meats, now," he Look up from your books a moment ano re concerning the project should be directed to Carolyn Membership with the added, pointing to a section- member that there's peace waiting, not too far Gray at 684-2163. away. Food Co-op is open to (Continued on page 3) Page Two The Chronicle Thursday, December 4,1975 SPECTRUM SPECTRUM POLICY: tion in Glacier National Park, Montana, Kay Addams.