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Kunstler condemns proposed FBI charter By MICHAEL CRATER “ sanction illegality” by the even if the group had committed suits stemming from its actions. Kunstler said. Montana Kalmln Contributing Reporter “runaway, corrupt" FBI. no crimes. Kunstler said relatives of Martin A ltho ug h he called the Among other things, Kunstler • Recruit informants "despite Luther King are suing the bureau campaign against King the "most The proposed FBI charter now said the charter would: their legal obligation of for damages, as are other people, vitriolic" undertaken by the FBI, before the Congress would • Allow an FBI agent to kill confidentiality.” Kunstler said this and that this would not be possible Kunstler said' the same tactics “legalize every criminal act" for people in order to maintain his could include doctors and under the proposed charter. have been used many times which the FBI has been “ cover." Citing an example, lawyers, who are currently Kunstler said the FBI under J. against civil rights and anti-war condemned in the past, activist Kunstler said a woman was shot in forbidden to testify against their Edgar Hoover wrote false letters groups and have led to “at least 19 attorney William Kunstler said last Salem, Ala., during a civil rights clients, and journalists, who about King to his wife, made deaths." night in the University Center demonstration in the 60s by an FBI cannot always be obliged to threats against King and told him Kunstler said another example Ballroom. agent posing as a member of the identify their sources. to commit suicide in other of what he called a “vicious, un Kunstler, who was the defense Ku Klux Klan. The proposed • Allow the FBI to demand in anonymous letters and, with the principled, Indecent program” was attorney in the "Chicago Seven” charter would make such murders formation from banks, credit authorization of then-Attorney the FBI campaign against actress and other civil rights and anti-war legal, he said. agencies and similar private General Robert Kennedy, wire Jean Seberg. Kunstler said Seberg trials of the 60s, told about 800 • Allow the FBI to undermine organizations without a subpoena. tapped King's rooms and tele went insane after the bureau people that the charter “will and spy on any group if there is a A subpoena, signed by a judge, is phones. The bureau then made a planted rumors that she was destroy us eventually,” if "reasonable indication" the group currently required. “composite tape,” which made pregnant by a member of the Black approved, because it would might commit a crime in the future, • Protect the FBI from any law King seem to be a sexual deviant, • Cont. on p. 8. I montana k a imin Friday, October 26,1979 Missoula, Mont. Vol.82,No.19 Disarmament service to be followed by march By EILEEN SANSOM as the Missoula protest, Lemnitzer Montana Kaimin Reporter said. A protest will also be held at the Trident nuclear submarine Total national disarmament is base near Bangor, Wash., he said. the focus of a service to be held “The time to stop them Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Christ (weapons build-up) is now, or it’s the King Catholic Church, 1400 going to stop us," Lemnitzer said. Gerald Ave. People now see the inherent evil One of the speakers and an built into the arms race and the organizer of the service is the Rev. movement to demand disarma John Lemnitzer of the Prince of ment is growing, he said. (Staff photo by Darrel Mast.) Peace Lutheran Church. Also The interdenominational speaking at the service will be meeting and uniting of Christians Cynthia Schuster, a University of and non-Christians inspire hope of Montana philosophy professor. a solution that participants see as ‘Gas hog’ smashed in fundraiser Following the service, a candle the "most urgent moral question of light "March for Peace” will our fime,” she said. Nearly 100 people cheered when the first sledgehammer hit the car's windshield yesterday, but proceed from the church to the “We have to focus on the federal University of Montana student Randy Wimberg didn’t stop there. He jumped right up on top of the federal building at 210 E. government," Lemnitzer said. The station wagon and went to work on its roof. Broadway St. end to the arms race will come only Wimberg was the first of several hundred people to take swings at a 1969 Dodge Polara parked The service and march are an when citizens let their represen behind the grizzly statue on the University Oval. attempt to “continue to keep the tatives in federal government hear Headwaters Alliance sponsored the event to raise money for a trip this weekend to Bangor, Wash, issue (of disarmament) before the their opposition. where a protest against the Trident nuclear submarine base is scheduled. Headwaters Alliance is a people,” Lemnitzer said. Lemnitzer said U.S. Sens. John local anti-nuclear group. Most of the people thought their 25 cents a hit was well spent. "It’s great," The Mobilization for Survival, a Melcher and Max Baucus should Wimberg said, “I've been psyching myself up for days.” group advocating disarmament, is make trips to the pentagon and Tom Raver, a student who took 10 swings at the car, said, “I’ve got a gas guzzler myself, and it’s a planning a large gathering in nuclear arms bases and question drag driving it around. I can't smash it up, so I came down here.” Washington, D.C. on the same day the direction of arms control. The youngest car smasher was 8-year-old Eric Andryk, who said, “This is what I do with my models when they don’t fit together.” He said he’d never been able to smash a real car before, and didn’t expect to again. Eric destroyed the front left-turn signal. Study brings cooperation, The car’s owner, George Greenwald, 401 East Spruce, came late to the event. “I love It,” he said, “no more gas lines." not money, LaFaver says One participant said he was smashing the car “because Chrysler invests in hydrogen bombs," and Tom George of the Headwaters Alliance called it "a crazy way to protest a crazy world.” By CATHY KRADOLFER Although available money will Montana Kalmln Raportar determine the success of any funding formula, "great success” More cooperation but not more has been made in improving money are the likely results of a cooperation between the universi Building heat changes explained legislative study of better ways to ty system and the fiscal analyst's By BOOMER SLOTHOWER pipes to the buildings. adds to the temperature of a room, fund the university system, the office, LaFaver said. Montana Kalmln Reporter Regulation of heat in individual Parker said, but the system is not legislative fiscal analyst said I n the past, the university system buildings depends on the era in sophisticated enough to remove yesterday. has blamed the fiscal analyst's You're sitting through a class in which it was built and its original the extra heat and use it elsewhere. John LaFaver, the man who office for recommending what it Liberal Arts 11. Before long your purpose, Parker said. Some of the In July 1979 President Carter recommends to the Legislature considers to be an insufficient jacket comes off, then your older buildings have only one on issued an executive order that how much money should be amount of money. But, LaFaver sweater. You're sweating by the and off valve that controls heat for mandated conservation through budgeted to the university system said, the “long period of animosi time the bell rings and you go to the ‘entire building. Newer temperature control, but Parker and other state institutions and ty" is coming to an end because of the third floor for your next class. buildings have multiple zone said UM has been practicing agencies, said the funding study the funding study. The sweat turns to chills, the heating. Each floor or wing has conservation since 1973. Lighting should not be “oversold." LaFaver said he has been work sweater and jacket go back on. separate heating controls. levels have been ^ reduced and "We’ve got limited resources and ing closely with the commissioner Relax. The problem isn't you— Heat from bodies and from lights thermostats set back to 65 unlimited demands for them," of higher education's staff on the it’s the heating system. In a univer degrees. LaFaver said. “And a formula isn’t study. The response and concern sity whose buildings range in age Heat has had to be kept higher in going to change that.” from the various campuses has from 81 years (Main Hall) to 8 years some areas of the university, such LaFaver was at the University of been "encouraging,” he added.