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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1974)
Congress limits use of confidential info WASHINGTON (UPI)-Both House and Senate voted Thur sday to restrict the kind of in formation the government gathers on citizens and how it is used. The two houses, in a rare coincidence, passed similar bills on the same subject at practically the same hour. Differences in the two versions could be com promised by amendments or in a conference committee. The House measure, approved on a 353-1 vote, would give citizens access to all government records affecting them in dividually unless such access endangers national security or law enforcement investigations. Sen. Barry Goldwater,(R-Ariz.) and his son. Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr., (R-Calrf.), won approval in their respective Houses of identical amendments affecting use of Social Security numbers. The Goldwater provisions say that citizens cannot be denied lawful federal benefits if they refuse to giwe their Social Security number. They would have to continue to give the number if it was required in federal programs before January, 1975. In the House bill, gathering of information on religious or political affiliations would be banned and swapping of in formation between federal agencies could only be done with a citizen's permission, with a few exceptions. Agencies such as the FBI, CIA and the Secret Service would be exempt from the access provisions and files that are open to inspection could withold the name of informers. The Senate bill, approved 74 to 9, also orders strict safeguards and, in addition, would create a Private Protection Commission to investigate violations and develop model guidelines. Nixon realized he could be impeached WASHINGTON (UPI) President Richard Nixon agreed he could be impeached if the failing Watergate cover-up were not handled "adroitly," according to a tape played Thursday at the Watergate conspiracy trial. Prosecutors played the last four of 28 presidential tapes presented at the trial of five former Nixon aides. None of the four had been made public before. "I think it's entirely conceivable that if former presidential counsel John Dean is totally out of control and if matters are not handled adroitly that vou could get a resolution of impeachment,” defendant John Ehrlichman remarked on April 25. "That's right," Nixon replied. Judge John Sirica also accepted as evidence a 1972 memo by E. Howard Hunt Jr. demanding the administration meet its com mitments of money, pardons and "rehabilitation" for the original Watergate defendants. “&x*ui£d ‘fOchttaM. d dtri&iny adaptation /uzyenev d "Deary a Sctper^lutucd "7%a*t rn t&e “Po-c6et ^iatf/uuoie. 'I'itta. id "74ail 7Uv. ?5. tf 20. 2f. 22 22- 7.00p.m. !u6eu *2.00 7iO ±Zudc*t!<i tuxtypicce - So-x O^cce 6$6-4t9f V still cares about quality. ■ upi roundup Postal rates to increase...again MEMPHIS, Tenn. —First class postage rates will jump from 10 cents per ounce to at least 12 cents within a year. Asst. U.S. Postmaster General James Byrne predicted Thursday. Byrne said the increase would be necessary because of a postal service deficit this year of $438 million. "If the price of gasoline goes up one cent," he said, "it costs the postal service $3.5 million." Anti-abortion language dropped WASHING TO N—House end Senate conferees agreed Thursday to drop anti-abortion language from a Health, Education and Welfare money bill. Conferees finally agreed, after months of negotiation, on a compromise $33 million ap propriations measure for the departments of Labor and HEW. The key issue that held up agreement was a Senate provision by Sen. Dewey Bartlett, IR-Okla.), that said no money in the measure could be used directly or indirectly for abortion pur poses. Conferees agreed to drop the provision in favor of a statement that will accompany the bill saying that while a majority of the conferees are in favor of limitations on abortion they should not be included in an appropriations bill but should come out of authorizing committees. German AUTO SERVICE VOLKSWAGEN & MERCEDES DATSUN A TOYOTA /deratR :_MTOWVK»/ EXPERT WORKMANSHIP AND SAVINGS 2045 FRANKLIN BLVD. Bus. Ph. 342-2912 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Good and Country Traditional Bine Brass at MURPHY & ME Saturday Nov. 23 9 pm to 1 am 75' cover Charter Flight To New York December 21 to January 8 Cost: $219.00 round-trip Los Angeles — New York (JFK) Open to All U of O Students, Staff and Faculty Members. Charter bus will be available from Eugene to L.A. for extra charge. Sign Up Immediately - Space is Limited!! Room 202 EMU International Education Center X3721 ► > ►