Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 39	_Los Angeles, California_	Tuesday, November 13, 1973
Ford Not Presidential Caliber, Says Waldie
JEROME R. WALDIE
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Editorial Director
Rep. Jerome R. Waldie (D-Calif.) said Monday he would not vote to confirm Gerald R. Ford, the vice-presidential nominee, and that Elliot L. Richardson would be his recommendation for the job.
He said that Richardson, who recently resigned as attorney general, would probably be the best man for the vice-presidency because he could run the country properly and with the confidence of the people. -WALDIE, who is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said that Ford, although an honest person.
Arab Ambassador Denies Charges of Oil Blackmail
BY BRIAN ROBINETTE
Staff Writer
Salem S. al-Sabah. the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, told a capacity audience Monday that Americans continue to harbor the popular misnomer that the Arab states are manipulating their oil supply as a tool of blackmail.
“There is a misconception,” said al-Sabah, before a crowd of 500 in Hancock Auditorium, “that the Arabs are using oil as a blackmail. Actually, we are doing this for a good cause. We are trying to make the world conscious of the situation.”
AL-SABAH'S address, “Oil as a Vehicle of Arab Foreign
Policy,” was sponsored by the Middle East-North African Program of the School of International Relations, lations.
Kuwait, located in the northeastern quadrant ofthe Arabian Peninsula, is a member of the 10-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries which voted to reduce oil exports earlier this month by 25%. This decision has been denounced by most Western nations as a blatant attempt to coerce an Israeli withdrawal of occupied Arab lands.
Al-Sabah, 36. who also serves as Kuwaiti ambassador to Canada and Venezuela, explained that his country had little choice but to endorse the oil cut, and if necessary, would go to war to protect its interests.
“WE ARABS are a peaceful people by nature.” he said. “We hate wars. But when wars are forced upon us, we
will fight. War has been forced upon us for the last few decades.”
He claimed that since the 1947 Arab-Israeli conflict, the Arab nations have been asking the international community for a peaceful settlement.
AL-SABAH noted that his country's main objective was to assume a uniform stand with other Arab states regarding oil exports. It was this policy that prompted the decision in 1971 to freeze oil production at a level of three million barrels a day.
This policy of conserving
petroleum resources is a popular one among most Arab countries. One noted exception is that of neighboring Iran, which is eager to market its known oil reserves in exchange for capital.
Al-Sabah, the oldest son of the Amir of Kuwait, said that the modern Arab is the victim of a lingering stereotype.
“The image of the Arab in this country is always distorted,” he said. “Generally, the idea is that he is aggressive, untrustworthy and will stab you in the back with a very sharp knife.”
was neither competent nor qualified enough to be President.
The congressman said that he has asked Ford for all correspondence and memos concerning Ford’s attempt to seek impeachment of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in 1970, and that Ford has agreed to turn over such papers to him.
Waldie said he believes Ford is a carbon copy of President Nixon and suggested that Ford’s attempt at the impeachment of Douglas may have been backed by the White House.
He said this attempt at impeachment indicated two qualities about Ford—a possible insensitivity to civil rights, and a lack of understanding of the independence of the judicial branch and therefore, a misunderstanding of the concept of separation of powers.
WALDIE SAID that he did not believe that Carl B. Albert, speaker of the House and next in line for the Presidency after the Vice-President, should succeed to the White House if Nixon were impeached, because
such a succession would not be in line with the mandate of the people in the 1972 election.
He did say that he would have voted to confirm Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller (R—N.Y.) for the Vice-Presidency, but not for Gov. Ronald Reagan.
Waldie. who along with 29 other representatives coauthored an impeachment resolution, said that Nixon’s impeachment could be based on the grounds of an obstruction of justice.
He noted the crime does not have to be an indictable offense, however
IMPEACHMENT and a subsequent conviction must be based on high crimes and misdemeanors, the Constitution said. However, today’s definition of that phrase is not a proper interpretation of the constitution, Waldie said.
He traced the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors to the Founding Fathers, and said that the phrase came from old English law, in which it meant gross abuse of office.
Financial Advisers Face Varied Tasks
BY PETER WONG
Managing Editor
Almost as important as the amount of money available for financial aid are the services performed by the staff
Car Destroyed by Gas Leak Fire
A late-model Fiat 124 Sport Convertible was destroyed by fire in student parking lot 33 at about 11 a.m. Monday. The firewas caused by a leaking gas line and then spread to the dead grass and shrubs in the
lot where it was parked.
Chris Kirchner, the owner, and a law student from Arcadia, said the car was insured. DT photo by Marc Groothaert.
members of the Student Aid Office.
Because some $17 million in university, private and government funds is distributed by the office—$9.7 million controllable by the office itself—the quality of the staff can help (or hinder) a student in his financial planning.
“THE SCOPE and size of the student-aid program requires capable and experienced staff members,” a report to the University Planning Commission, Student Life and Student Services, 1966-80, said in March, 1967.
What do these staff members do?
“I think the impression in
the past was that most of the work was suited only for clerk-typists, in which forms were typed up,” Pamela H. Walbom, director of the Student Aid Office, said in an interview in 1972. “That’s misleading.”
THE STAFF members students are most likely to see, financial-aid advisers, have two key functions— information and counseling.
Advisers tell students what forms of aid are available. how they can apply, and the standards of qualification for programs.
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