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U...... ............i·· ...=....=. ..=== = ''Unii ·.·.·.·.·.·.-.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.· versity Salaries ..............:: ....... ...... ... ....:..·.·.......... ..·.·.. page 6, 7 ..........................·'''1··1·-''"'''''1p............. ..........Il.. t .Poy' ..........................·'·'-''·'··'-'·''·'...........n i iiii;!iiiii,.iiiiiiiiii~.... ... asses Summer Budget page 3 -- Editorial - II Debategate main problem will be the infighting in his staff. Birthdays are a time for taking stock, and Mr. Casey, you see, has categorically denied America's 207th birthday, celebrated on Mon- that he ever saw or gave to Jim Baker any day, should have been the spur to a nationwide Carter campaign notes. According to Casey, consideration of America's future, how to make "I wouldn't tolerate it. I wouldn't touch those the United States into the better country it is papers with a 10 foot pole." capable of being. Either Mr. Baker or Mr. Casey is wrong, and Generally speaking, though, this did not quite possibly is deliberately lying. Reagan has happen, as the attention of the Federal govern- to find out who right away and stop them. ment, the news media, and the public at large Baker and Casey have been longstanding anta- was concentrated on the question of whether or gonists, with Baker leading the moderates among not Ronald Reagan knew what Jimmy Carter Mr. Reagan's staff, and Casey the conservatives. was going to say at their campaign debates in Reagan has been in the unenviable position of 1980. holding these two wings together over the last What has been revealed is that Reagan's staff, two and one half years and it is possible that one but apparently not Reagan himself, had access side or the other may lose big by being shown to to hundreds of pages of Carter's debate notes, be lying here. If Reagan is smart he will get rid and used that information to prepare their can- of anyone involved in wrongdoing, and keep the didate for the debates, outcomes of which were office of the President relatively clean. He cer- apparently far more favorable to Mr. Reagan tainly has lots of examples of the wrong way to than Mr. Carter. It is not yet known just how handle an investigation of a minor election they got that information. wrongdoing. White House Chief of Staff James Baker says that he was given the material by William Casey, now CIA director, who was then Reagan's cam- mI· · I r r I paign director. Baker was in charge of the I debate preparations team and purportedly found the information mildly useful, but of no over- The Stony whelming value. Even members of Carter's staff agree that the material did not play a deciding role in the election. Brook Press It depends how Casey got the information. There are three possibilities. The first is that, as Editor ........ Joseph Caponi Reagan himself has suggested, a disgruntled unless this mole leaked classified government Executive Democrat, possibly a Kennedy supporter in- material (and there is no hard evidence that Managing Editor ....... Bob Goldsmith volved with the Democratic campaign got the he/she did), then they probably broke no law. Photo Editor ........ .. Jared Silbursher papers and gave them to the Republicans as a The third possibility is that someone broke in Arts Editor . .. .. ... Kathy Essex everyone believes way of getting back at Carter and his people. and stole the stuff. Almost Arts Director ... ...... .Blair Tuckman it is difficult to imagine the Republicans turning that Reagan's people are not so monumentally Business Manager ....... Dawn DuBois down such an offer. Would you? stupid that they would risk another Watergate The second is to suggest that the Reagan cam- over some debate notes of dubious value. paign planted a "mole" in the Carter campaign, Reagan has ordered a justice Department in- News Feature: Kate Bode, Eric Corley, a person loyal to Reagan who would attempt to vestigation to determine just how the material A. Cunningham, Ned Goldreyer, Dave infiltrate and rise up in the Carter staff, all the was obtained. If he keeps the investigation legi- Goodman, Kathy Hlont, Patrice Jacobson, while funneling information back. 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