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RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - A jury Tuesday heard lawyers describe the late
Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck as an old woman bilked of her
money by her business manager.
Miss Buck's will, which left most of her money to business manager
Theodore Harris and a trust fund, is being contested by one of her
seven adopted children and by the Pearl S. Buck Foundation. The
contested money totals about $150,000.
The Rutland County Superior Court jury heard a 150-page deposition
from Harris.
The adopted son, Edgar S. Walsh of New York City, claims that Miss
Buck was either under undue influence of Harris or was mentally
unstable when she signed the will in 1971.
Miss Buck died March 6, 1973, at the age of 80 in Danby, Vt.
Walsh's lawyer, Fred Parker, said that from 1963, when Miss Buck
first met Harris, until her death she increasingly relied on him to
handle her financial affairs.
''She believed he loved her and she transferred her property to
him. All of this was done as part of a scheme perpetrated by Mr.
Harris,'' Parker said.
The lawyer contended that Harris was a homosexual and was never in
love with Miss Buck.
Presiding Judge Franklin S. Billings Jr. refused to introduce into
evidence what Parker said were romantic letters between Harris and a
male friend and Harris' correspondence with Miss Buck.
In his deposition, Harris, 43, who failed to answer a subpoena to
appear at the trial, spoke of his childhood in South Carolina where
he left home at the age of 14, and worked his way to California and
Oregon by teaching dancing. He said he eventually worked as a dance
teacher in 44 states.
The deposition said he met Miss Buck in 1963 when she arranged for
private dance lessons with him at her home in Jenkintown, Pa.
Harris also said that when on Christmas Eve of 1963 she asked him
to become the director of the foundation, ''I told her that in any
work I engaged with her that she'd have this difficulty of me being
accused a homosexual. I told her . . . that it would be a matter of
time before somebody would start taking potshots.''
Harris said he explained to her that he had had a homosexual
relationship in his late teens but the sexual aspect of it ended even
though the two men lived together 20 years and still remained
friends.
Judge Billings said the hearing was expected to last two or three
more days.
None of the 12 jurors has read any of Miss Buck's books.
She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for
literature, winning the award in 1938 for ''The Good Earth,'' a novel
about China.
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Editors:
Advances moved this cycle:
CINCINNATI, Ohio - Why Rick? Correction, Aug. 4., a661.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Regional Theater, Aug. 4, a652.
Editors: The last three takes of the Regional Theater story will
move in a later cycle.
The AP
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Busing NL 250
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate-House conferees have reached agreements on
a $25.2-billion school aid authorization bill that permits courts to
ignore a busing ban if they decided the constitutional rights of
black children were involved.
The compromise, reached Monday night after a month of effort,
retained House provisions for termination of court busing orders and
curbs on use of federal funds to finance for desegregation purposes.
The measure was returned to the House and Senate for final action.
The conferees struck out a House requirement for courts to reopen
any existing desegregation order that does not conform to the bill's
anti-busing language.
As finally written, the measure would forbid courts to order
children bused to schools nearest or next-nearest their homes unless
the courts determined that busing was needed to protect the
constitutional rights of black children.
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Starting PMs report. a002 is next.
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AP NEWS DIGEST
Wednesday PMs
Here are the top stories at this hour for PMs. The General Desk
supervisor is Joe F. Kane. He can be reached at 212-262-6093 if you
have any urgent questions about the spot news report.
IMPEACHMENT
WASHINGTON - A hurriedly called meeting of Supreme Court is
scheduled for today, with a decision awaited in the historic case of
President Nixon and the Watergate tapes. Court meets at 10 a.m. EDT,
prenoon EDT lead expected.
WASHINGTON - Republican Lawrence J. Hogan's decision to vote
impeachment on the eve of House Judiciary Committee debate on the
issue triggers open talk of impeachment in Republican cloak room. May
stand. Wirephotos WX1, 2, 4.
WASHINGTON - Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield has
told House Judiciary Committee H.R. Haldeman ''was almost the other
President.'' 6:30 a.m. EDT use. Will stand.
WASHINGTON - Watergate prosecutors say they may bring bribery
charges against dairy cooperative official in connection with
President Nixon's 1971 increase in federal milk price supports. Will
stand. Wirephoto WX3.
WASHINGTON - A pro-impeachment lobby is trying to put hometownn
pressure on several key Republican congressmen. Will stand.
WASHINGTON - In calling for President Nixon's impeachment, Rep.
Lawrence J. Hogan graphically illustrataes political side of
forthcoming congressional struggle. An AP News Analysis by Carl. P.
Leubsdorf. Will stand.
CYPRUS
UNDATED - Constantine Caramanlis is sworn in as premier of Greece,
apparently ending seven years of military dictatorship. Pro-Makarios
president installed on Cyprus. Security Council issues another
cease-fire appeal. Roundup. Developing. Wirephotos NY4, 8, ATH2.
ABOARD HMS OLNA OFF CYPRUS - British warships, helicopters resue
thousands of foreign tourists from the Turkish invasion bridgehead.
Will stand.
UNDATED - The smoke won't clear for a while et, but evidently the
Soviet-American detente has paid extra dividends in the Cyprus
crisis. An AP News Analysis by William L. Ryan. Will stand.
ATHENS - Greece's new premier is a handsome, 67-year-old
conservative who wouldn't knuckle under either to royalty or the
military. Personality in the news. Will stand.
ATHENS - Brig. Gen. Dimtrios Ioannides, the strongman of the Greek
dictatorship for the past eight months, was a mystery man then and
still is. Personality in the news. Will stand.
SPAIN
MADRID - No matter how Gen. Francisco Franco's battle to regain his
health turns out, Spain already has slipped into the post-Franco era.
An AP News Analysis by Fenton Wheeler. Will stand.
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czzcczzczyyvAP ADVANCES ADVISORY
The following advances moved for PMS of Wednesday:
NEW YORK - The third market is searching for its niche in the
changing world of Wall Street. a066, 067 July 23.
BUENOS AIRES - Jose Gelbard, the director of Argentina's volatile
economy, has been called by his supporters nothing short of a miracle
worker. a061, 062 July 23.
COLUMNS - Radio-TV: A lead will be provided to cover spot
developments for the column moved as a063, 064 July 23. Business
Mirror will move spot.
The AP
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Managing Editors
A reminder that all entries for the Freedom of Information Award
and citations should be received by August 1. If you know of a
newspaper or newsperson worthy of a nomination, please promptly mail
a simple narrative description of the courageous act or acts to John
Focht, Managing Editor, Alton Telegraph, P.O. Box 278, Alton,
Illinois 62002 Don't let the deadline slip by you.
The AP
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Impeachment Lobby Bjt 470
By MICHAEL PUTZEL
ASSOCIATED Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A pro-impeachment lobby is trying to put hometown
pressure on several key Republican congressmen whose votes could be
crucial when the House Judiciary Committee decides whether to
recommend impeachment of President Nixon.
The National Committee on the Presidency Inc., a registered
lobbying group, recently bought full-page advertisements in several
small midwestern and upstate New York newspapers calling attention to
the impeachment inquiry.
The ads were aimed at districts represented by Republican
congressmen considered to be swing votes on the committee, publicly
uncommitted and likely to go either way when the proposed articles of
impeachment are put to a vote.
In three cases, the ads asked in large, bold-face type, ''Is
Congressman . . . helping the cover-up?''
The lobbying group pointed out that the lawmakers named in the
three ads, Reps. Wiley Mayne of Iowa, David W. Dennis of Indiana and
Henry P. Smith III of New York, had voted in favor of issuing
subpoenas for some presidential diaries and against demanding others.
''These votes look like the 'politics of impeachment,' that is,
votes on both sides of the same subject to complicate the issue and
confuse the public,'' the national committee said.
All three congressmen rejected suggestions their votes had helped
cover up anything and pointed out they voted to subpoena all
information they considered relevant, particularly tapes of
presidential conversations.
In a news release issued in Washington Tuesday, Theodore Zimmerman,
a spokesman for the lobby, said the votes of the three congressmen
and similar split votes by four other Republican members ''represent
active participation in the continuing cover-up being conducted by
Mr. Nixon.''
Dennis said that with the exception of the pro-impeachment ads he
had received ''remarkably little'' pressure from organized groups in
his district on either side of the impeachment issue.
The National Committee on the Presidency, he said, appeared to be
an outside organization but because the local newspaper ad stirred
some reaction from constituents he decided to answer it with a letter
to the paper.
Smith's and Mayne's offices also said public statements had been
issued in response to the ads.
Several Judiciary Committee members said they had received mail or
had been talked to by Nixon supporters associated with a national
group headed by Rabbi Baruch Korff.
But six Republicans generally considered in the ''swing'' category
denied any White House pressure. They included Reps. Hamilton Fish
Jr. and Smith, both of New York; M. Caldwell Butler of Virginia;
Thomas F. Railsback and Robert McClory, both of illinois; and William
S. Cohen of Maine.
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Milk Money Bjt 490
By BROOKS JACKSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Watergate prosecutors say they may bring bribery
charges against a dairy cooperative official in connection with
President Nixon's 1971 increase of federal milk price supports.
One of the co-op officials who promised $2 million for Nixon's 1972
campaign, David L. Parr, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to
donate corporate money and services illegally to six candidates,
including Democrats Hubert H. Humphrey and Wilbur D. Mills.
But in a letter filed with the court, the prosecutors said that
Parr's guilty plea won't give him immunity from prosecution on
possible charges of bribery and conspiracy ''in connection with the
March 25, 1971, milk price support decision.''
That increase was ordered by President Nixon March 23, and the
public announcement was held up two days while presidential aides
obtained confirmation of Parr's $2 million promise. oarr's group and
two sister co-ops donated $632,500.
The House Judiciary Committee is deliberating whether to include a
milk-fund bribery charge against Nixon in any future articles of
impeachment. Tuesday's court proceeding brought the first official
statement that the Watergate prosecutors also are considering bribery
charges against persons involved in the affair.
Parr was second-in-command at Associated Milk Producers, Inc. of
San Antonio, Tex., the nation's largest dairy-farmer cooperative,
until he was ousted in an internal shakeup in January 1972.
He pleaded guilty to conspiring to donate up to $222,450 in
corporate money and an unspecified dollar amount in corporate
services to six candidates.
He admitted giving illegal corporate help to Humphrey's 1968 and
1972 presidential campaigns and his 1970 Minnesota senatorial race,
and to Mills' 1972 presidential effort. Parr also admitted aiding
campaigns of Sen. James Abourezk, D-S.D., Sen. Richard Clark, D-Iowa,
former Rep. Patrick Hillings, R-Calif., and former Rep. Page Belcher,
R-Okla.
Named as unindicted coconspirators with Parr were Harold S. Nelson,
the former general manager of the milk producers, and Stuart H.
Russell, an Oklahoma City lawyer who once worked for the co-op.
Neither have been granted immunity.
Nelson has admitted under oath that he authorized some payments,
which he now believes to be illegal corporate donations. Russell has
denied allegations that he took part in an elaborate money-laundering
scheme to hide illegal donations.
Other unindicted coconspirators were Robert O. Isham and Bob A.
Killy, two former co-op officials who gave damaging testimony against
Nelson and Parr last year after being granted immunity from
prosecution.
The amount of corporate money illegally donated by the milk
producers now stands at about one-third of a million dollars.
Previously, Parr and another official had pleaded guilty in Little
Rock, Ark., to a federal charge of donating $22,000 to Humphrey's
1968 campaign, and both were sentenced to probation. Lawyers for the
co-op also hae said that a $100,000 cash gift to Nixon fund raiser
Herbert W. Kalmbach in 1969 was an illegal corporate donation.
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Supreme Court Bjt 420, Two Takes 650
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A hurriedly called meeting of the Supreme Court
was scheduled for today, with a decision awaited in the historic case
of President Nixon and the Watergate tapes.
A court spokesman said late Tuesday that the justices would gather
on the bench some time between 10 and 11 a.m. EDT.
He did not say what the purpose of the session was, but speculation
focused on Nixon's fight to avoid surrendering White House records
wanted as evidence in the Watergate cover-up trial.
Also anticipated from the court, soon if not today, is a decision
on a proposed school integration plan for the Detroit area that
involves busing pupils across district lines. The state of Michigan
and suburban school districts appealed from a lower court order
approving the plan.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on the Nixon case July 8. It had
accepted the case on an expedited basis, indicating it would rule
quickly.
Nixon appealed from an order by U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica
directing him to turn over tapes and documents relating to 64 White
House conversations for possible use as evidence.
Sirica would study the material to determine whether it should be
made available to special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
Nixon said he did not have to surrender the records because the
doctrine of executive privilege shields confidential communications
within the executive branch from scrutiny by the courts or Congress.
He also asked the court to consider the additional question of
whether the Watergate grand jury exceeded its authority when it named
him an unindicted coconspirator in the cover-up.
It was not clear what Nixon's response would be if ordered by the
court to turn over the records.
In arguments before the court his lawyer, James D. St. Clair, said
the case was ''being submitted to this court for its
uidance and
judgment with respect to the law.''
q''the President, hn tx9atand, has his obligations under the
Constitution,'' St. Clair said.
At the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif., Monday night
St. Clair declined under repeated questioning to say whether the
President would obey a Supreme Court order in the case.
Also unclear was the effect of any action the court might take on
the House Judiciary Committee's consideration of an impeachment
resolution against the President.
Rep. Robert McClory, R-Ill., has urged committee Chairman Peter W.
Rodino Jr., D-N.J., to delay action in the event a high court
decision made it appear likely the tapes could be obtained.
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The Judiciary Committee has sought the same tapes as Jaworski,
although the committee was not a party to the Supreme Court case. St.
Clair has charged that the special prosecutor's office was being used
as a conduit to convey the tapes to the committee. Jaworski denied
this.
Eight justices, three of them appointed by Nixon, took part in
consideration of the case. Justice William H. Rehnquist disqualified
himself because he was an assistant to former Atty. Gen. John N.
Mitchell, one of the defendants in the cover-up trial.
The trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 9 before Sirica. Defendants
are Mitchell, former White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John D.
Ehrlichman and Gordon C. Strachan and former presidential campaign
workers Robert C. Mardian and Kenneth W. Parkinson.
They are accused of attempting to cover up White House involvement
in the June 17, 1972, Watergate burglary. The conversations covered
by the tapes and documents range from those held three days after the
burglary through talks on March 21, 1973, about secret money for a
burglary defendant who had pleaded guilty.
The President has made public edited transcripts of 20 of the 64
conversations.
Although he seeks the tapes for trial use, Jaworski has said they
undoubtedly would have a bearing on impeachment proceedings against
the President.
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News Analysis
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - In calling for President Nixon's impeachment,
Rep. Lawrence W. Hogan has graphically illustrated the political side
of the forthcoming congressional struggle.
Both politics and the merits of the case will influence the
determination of Nixon's fate by House and Senate members, many of
whom will face the voters this November.
And several House members said privately it is a significant sign
of the way political winds are blowing when a candidate for governor
in a border state that Nixon carried easily in 1972 feels he must now
call for impeachment.
Republican Hogan is running for the Maryland governorship.
''That is what happens when a guy has a pollster,'' one Democrat
commented. ''A lot of them will start getting polls in the next few
weeks.''
Hogan's candidacy for governor was seen by both Republicans and
Democrats as a major reason why he became the first GOP member of the
Judiciary Committee to call for impeachment.
''All I wish is that more of you guys were running for governor,''
Rep. James C. Corman, D-Calif., a likely pro-impeachment congressman,
kidded Rep. Wayne Owens, D-Utah, a Judiciary Committee member and
himself a candidate for the Senate.
Rep. Dan Kuykendall, R-Tenn., commented: ''I think it's a cool way
to run for governor of Maryland - if he wins. If he loses, it's a
miserable way.''
Republicans contended that Maryland presents a special case: its
last two governors, have been Republican Spiro T. Agnew, who resigned
the vice presidency because of political scandal, and Democrat Marvin
Mandel, whose administration has been the target of grand jury
probes.
In running against Mandel, Hogan plans to rely heavily on the issue
of alleged corruption, so a decision to call for President Nixon's
impeachment may have been a political necessity.
If Hogan had been seeking re-election in his conservative suburban
district, one Maryland politician said, he might well have sided with
the President.
''It all depends on your constituency,'' a Democrat noted, pointing
out that many Republicans have a special problem since they depend
for victory on combining a hard core of pro-Nixon Republicans with
independents likely to favor impeachment.
The Democrat said he expects many House Republicans to defend Nixon
to the end, support procedural motions to delay but, on the final
showdown, support impeachment.
''The political imperative, for them, is to be on both sides of the
issue,'' he said.
Hogan said he based his decision on the evidence, saying it
''convinced me that my President has lied to the American people.''
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Republican counsel Sam Garrison, however, pointed a way Monday for
GOP members to ignore the evidence, telling the Judiciary Committee
it must weigh the evidence against the ''political'' judgment of what
serves ''the best interests of the country.''
''We have to all admit, at least to some extent, that politics
plays a part,'' Rep. Trent Lott, R-Miss., another Judicicary member,
told a reporter.
But like most committee members, including Hogan, he insisted that
his decision would be based on the evidence.
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Detente Bjt 500
An AP News Analysis
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Special Correspondent
The smoke won't clear for a while yet, but evidently the
Soviet-American detente has paid new dividends.
When a complete assessment can be made, the extent to which the
Kremlin resisted temptation to use the Greek-Turkish clash over
Cyprus will serve as a measure of how importantly Soviet-American
relations now figure in Moscow's plans.
There was a marked lack of the Soviet bombast that accompanied
virtually every other crisis that could be regarded as imperiling
peace. There was no Soviet rocket-rattling this time.
This cautious approach was the more noteworthy because the Kremlin
has always displayed a flair for low-risk gambling in that particular
Mediterranean area.
Greece and Turkey constitute a vastly important pivot whose future
involves the destiny of the whole Middle East, with all the meaning
that region has for the Western world.
The two are of even more critical importance in today's picture
than just after World War II, when the strategic and volatile
Balkans, Europe's underbelly, were the apple of Joseph Stalin's
always calculating eye.
Severely shaken by a Soviet-backed Communist rebellion, Greece by
1947 was in danger of collapse. Turkey was tottering on the edge of
economic disaster. Stalin, gambling to win a great deal at relatively
small risk, applied heavy military and diplomatic pressure against
both nations.
Two events stopped Stalin. First, the Truman Doctrine warned that
the United States would resist attempts to subjugate nations by
outside pressure or support of armed minorities, and sent massive aid
to Greece and Turkey. Second, Communist Yugoslavia's break with the
Soviet Bloc closed a border sanctuary and supply channel to the Greek
Communist guerrillas.
Today, with all the volatility of the Middle East and the greater
importance than ever of its oil, the Kremlin may have had to agonize
over whether to yield to temptation. But it was as much on notice
from the United States this time as it had been in Stalin's day. To
attempt to meddle too directly could have meant gambling with
carefully laid plans for internal Soviet development that depend on
the detente.
The detente that was born in the 1970s has been a fragile creation
that needed to be handled with care. It was shaken in 1972 when the
United States mined Haiphong harbor and bombed Hanoi just before
President Nixon's first summit visit to Moscow.
It was severely strained again last fall when the United States put
its troops around the world on the alert and said the Russians were
threatening to land troops in Egypt.
In both cases the Kremlin opted for preserving detente and keeping
alive its promise of substantial economic benefits for the Soviet
Union.
In this Cyprus crisis, Moscow again seemed sorely tempted. It
offered help to Turkey, decreed a limited military alert and blamed
''certain circles in NATO'' for the explosion. Yet the evidence seems
to be that Moscow argued itself out of getting too obstructive and by
and large kept hands off.
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Franco Era Bjt 420
An AP News Analysis
By FENTON WHEELER
Associated Press Writer
MADRID, Spain (AP) - No matter how Generalissimo Francisco Franco's
battle to regain his health turns out, Spain already has slipped into
the post-Franco era.
The crossover took place when the 81-year-old chief of state,
fighting for his life in a Madrid clinic, temporarily transferred the
last of his vast powers to Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. Politicians
view the shift as an irreversible political step toward the future,
even if Franco takes some of it back.
The country accepted the end of 35 years of one-man rule without a
quiver, or ''serenely and with maturity,'' as the
government-controlled press put it.
One of Franco's doctors said Tuesday he saw no medical reason why
the old man couldn't function again as chief of state whenever he
wants to. Privately, however, doctors predict a long and uncertain
period of recuperation, with Franco's advanced age working against a
full physical comeback.
Constitutionally, Franco can rescind at any time the verbal order
surrendering power. Politically, it may be another matter.
To bounce the chief-of-state powers back and forth could be
damaging to both Franco and the 36-year-old prince he has trained
from boyhood to be his successor. High government officials are known
to feel that Juan Carlos should be allowed to stay on the job in a
testing period while Franco still is around.
''The time to go from one period to another has arrived,'' said one
official.
Said a member of the political opposition: ''We, the Socialists,
and the Christian Democrats and the Communists, I believe, are in
agreement to give Juan Carlos a chance.
''We do not expect the prince to do much while Franco is alive. But
the prince is of a generation that is not responsible for the crimes
of the civil war. We can accept him on that basis. People of his age
are the majority in Spain and they want liberalization.''
Franco surrendered the first of the powers that he took after
winning the civil war in 1939 when he named his longtime confidant,
Adm. Luis Carrero Blanco, as premier in June 1973.
The admiral was assassinated last December - a stunning blow to
Franco - and the mayor of Madrid, Carlos Arias Navarro, replaced him.
Juan Carlos and Arias Navarro are now the country's leaders.
With the powerful influence he has accumulated over the years,
Franco still commands a strong following both inside and outside the
government. But he is not the same political force he was only two
weeks ago.
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Haldeman Bjt 490, Two Takes 820
By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - ''Haldeman was the alter ego. Haldeman was almost
the other President. I can't emphasize that enough.''
Thus did former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield describe
the role of H.R. Haldeman to the House Judiciary Committee, according
to testimony released today by the committee.
Butterfield, the man who first publicly disclosed the existence of
the presidential tapes, was the first of nine witnesses who testified
before the Judiciary Committee in its impeachment inquiry.
Part of Butterfield's testimony was devoted to a catalogue of often
petty details of White House housekeeping, such as ''whether or not
the curtains were closed or open,'' that he said drew the President's
attention.
The committee released Butterfield's testimony in a volume that
also included that of former Nixon campaign aides Paul O'Brien and
Frederick C. LaRue. O'Brien and LaRue were involved in arranging the
payment of legal expenses for Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt
Jr.
Butterfield, now head of the Federal Aviation Administration, spent
nearly nine hours testifying in closed session, during which time he
described in detail the President's work habits and his relationships
to his staff.
He made it clear that the closest staff man to the President was
his staff chief, Haldeman.
''Haldeman was his right-hand man,'' Butterfield told the
committee. ''He counted so heavily on Haldeman's presence, on
Haldeman bein at the other end of telephone within reach when he
buzzed.''
At one point, committee associate counsel Albert Jenner asked:
''During all your time at the White House, Mr. Butterfield, and to
the extent of your personal knowledge, no guessing, was there ever
any occasion that came to your knowledge of Mr. Haldeman withholding
any information from the President?''
''No, sir, never,'' replied Butterfield.
Later, James D. St. Clair, the President's defense lawyer, asked
Butterfield:
''But you really are not in a position to speak with any degree of
personal observation as to what Mr. Haldeman said or didn't say to
the President, isn't that right?''
''I would tend to disagree with you,'' replied Butterfield. ''I
think I was in probably the best possible position. However, I do
agree with you that I didn't actually observe.''
Butterfield served as deputy assistant to the President from
Nixon's first day in office until March 14, 1973. Among his duties
was insuring the smooth operation of the President's day.
He described a typical presidential day as beginning at 8:15 a.m.
with a reading of the daily news summary. At 8:35, the President
would buzz for Haldeman.
''It was always his habit to buzz for Haldeman when he finished the
news summary and he would stay in for about 30 to 35 minutes,''
Butterfield testified.
''Then perhaps Henry Kissinger would come in from 9 to 9:25,'' he
added.
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With Wirephoto WX20
By CHARLES J. LEWIS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bomb exploded outside the offices of a French
military mission causing substantial damage, police said.
There were no reports of injuries, according to fire and police
officials.
The blast just before 10 p.m. EDT blew out nearly all the front
windows of the four-story white brick building which houses the
Materiel French Military Mission. The mission is in charge of French
purchases of U.S. military hardware.
Police said there was no fire in the building, at 2164 Florida
Ave., near the Embassy Row district of northwest Washington. But
the explosion shattered glass in residences across the street and
tore a limb off a tree across the street.
Inspector Richard E. Tilley of the Metropolitan Police Department
said a bomb was placed either front of the door to the building or
in front of its basement windows. He said the blast caused
substantial damage inside.
Police had no idea what kind of bomb was involved, what the motive
for the bombing was or who did it, Tilley said.
The FBI sent agents to the scene.
The French occupied the entire building, which was apparently
unoccupied at the time. The building is located within a half a
dozen blocks of both the French embassy and the ambassador's
residence.
Last month, French military activity stirred diplomatic protests
around the world, but there was no indication if the blast
had any connection. Numerous countries, led by several in the Pacific
Ocean, objected to the French explosion of a nuclear weapon in the
atmosphere over Mururoa Island in mid-June.
It was the third French nuclear test in the atmosphere in six
months. France is not a signatory to the nuclear test-ban treaty.
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WASHINGTON Haldeman Bjt Take 2: added. 330
Haldeman and Kissinger were in and out of the President's office
throughout a typical day, Butterfield said.
Nixon's work day normally would end at about 7:30 p.m., except for
an average of about two nights a week when he would have his dinner
in his office in the Executive Office Building.
Asked about Nixon's concern with details of the White House
operation, Butterfield gave the following examples:
''. . . whether or not the curtains were closed or open, the
arrangement of state gifts, whether they should be on that side of
the room or this side of the room, displayed on a weekly basis or on
a monthly or daily basis. . .
''He was deeply involved in the entertainment business (for state
dinners), whom we should get for what kind of group, small band, big
band, black band, white band, jazz band whatever. He was very
interested in meals and how they were served . . .
''He was very interested in receiving lines and whether or not he
should have a receiving line . . . He was very interested in whether
or not salad should be served and decided that at small dinners of
eight or less, the salad course should not be served.
''He was interested in who introduced him to guests and he wanted
it done quite properly . . .
''Guest lists were of great interest to him. He did review all the
guests lists very carefully and no one would put someone on a guest
list or take some one person off a guest list as a rule without going
to the President. He was interested in knowing how many Republicans
or Democrats were on the list, he would review it for that. Too many
or too little - it always got his personal view - how many from the
South, East, West, North regions of America, how many blacks, how
many ethnics, how many labor union members might be invited; is this
an appropriate event for labor members? Who are the reporters, the
press people invited to this - he would review all of these lists
personally and approve them personally.''
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A bomb exploded outside the offices of a French
military mission Tuesday night causing substantial damage, police
said.
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WASHINGTON Impeachment-Politics, a009, to correct middle initial
from ''W.'' to ''J.'' sub 1st graf:
WASHINGTON (AP) - In calling for President Nixon's impeachment,
Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan has graphically illustrated the political side
of the forthcoming congressional struggle.
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By JAY SHARBUTT
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Unless there's a last-minute change, the nation
gets its first televised view at 7:30 p.m. EDT tonight of the House
Judiciary Committee's opening round of debate on whether President
Nixon should be impeached.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), serving 246 public TV
stations, says it will cover the first session live. However,
following sessions will be taped in full for rebroadcast at 7:30 p.m.
EDT each day the proceedings are held.
The debate will be carried live by ABC-TV tonight. NBC and CBS
officials said they did not plan live coverage of the first meeting.
The networks have set up a rotation plan for coverage for the debate.
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graf: scene.
The French occupy the entire building, which is located within half
a dozen blocks of both the French embassy and the ambassador's
residence.
Police said there were two persons in the building at the time, a
man who they said was a caretaker, and an unidentified woman. Police
questioned both of them, but did not provide further identification.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Unemployment will continue to rise the rest of
the year, says White House Budget Director Roy L. Ash.
''The full employment budget is no longer applicable as a guiding
concept,'' Ash told a news conference uesday.
He said the present unemploymenve per cent is
likely to reach nearly six per cent before 1974 is over and then
should level off.
Inflation peaked during the first few months of this year and is
winding down slowly, Ash said, but he declined to predict when it
might reach an acceptable level. Inflation remains the nation's
number one domestic problem, he said.
---
COPAN, Okla. (AP) - A stuck toilet dumped thousands of gallons of
water into the sewer mains requiring shipments by two tank trucks to
replenish the town's water supply.
City Manager Darrel Gaut ordered the water truck shuttle to nearby
Bartlesville Tuesday after a school toilet was found stuck and
pouring thousands of gallons of water down the sewer.
''We figure that it flushed about 40,000 gallons into the sewer
before it was stopped,'' said Judy McMurtrey, clerk and treasurer of
the northeastern Oklahoma town of about 700. She said it was not
known how long the toilet had been running. School ended in May.
''It will take us a week to catch up on what we lost through the
toilet,'' Gaut said.
---
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) - The twin brothers in the Freeman family
are in high spirits this week.
Both are recovering from a kidney transplant operation in which one
supplied a kidney to the other.
''I haven't had to have any more treatments on the kidney machine.
My new kidney really is working,'' said Charles Roger Freeman, 27,
the recipient.
Arthur Ray Freeman is the twin and donor.
The double surgery took place last Wednesday and this Monday,
doctors felt sure Charles's body would accept and use his brother's
kidney.
---
KANSAS CITY (AP) - The Kansas City chapter of the Jaycees says it
has admitted six women to full membership in defiance of the national
organization and issued a call for more female participation.
''We felt it was now time to obtain maximum involvement in the
community,'' Jack Campbell, local Jaycees president, said at a news
conference on Tuesday.
He said the board voted last month to accept women as members and
to amend its bylaws, taking out allreferences to ''male'' and
substituting neuter pronouns.
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WASHNGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans have indicated they may waive
their customary adherence to the seniority system in assignments to
the new congressional budget control committee.
Sens. Norris Cotton, R-N.H., and John Tower, R-Tex., told newsmen
they favor departing from the system at least enough to assure GOP
representation from the Finance and Appropriations Committee on the
new panel.
Cotton is chairman of the conference of all Republican senators,
while Tower heads the Senate GOP Policy Committee.
---
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Democratic Steering Committee, saying
the American economy is in its worst position since the Great
Depression, has proposed legislation ranging from tax reform to
expanded government-funded jobs for the unemployed.
The recommendations of the party's House policy group followed
closely proposals made by a panel of economists, most of whom had
served in Democratic administrations.
---
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Department of Transportation has urged
Congress to make the current 55 mile per hour speed limit permanent
in all states.
Secretary Claude Brinegar said the department has concluded that
the reduced highway fatality rate experienced since the lowered
limits went into effect outweigh all economic arguments for raising
the speed limits back to their original position.
The lowered speed limits were ordered by Congress last year as a
fuel conservation measure.
---
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. John Anderson, R-Ill., says he will join in
offering an impeachment resolution against former Illinois Gov. Otto
Kerner.
Kerner, on leave of absence as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals
in Chicago, is scheduled to begin serving a three-year sentence
Monday after his conviction last year for bribery, income-tax evasion
and fraud arising from a racetrack stock scandal when he was
governor.
Anderson said he will join Rep. H.R. Gross, R-Iowa, in sponsoring
the impeachment resolution some time this week.
---
WASHINGTON (AP) - Convince the nation has no workable economic
plan, the Senate has urged a domestic summit conference be convened
to find a solution for inflation.
By an 88-5 vote, the Senate adoted a resolution that urges leaders
of labor, business, Congress, the Nixon administration and the
Federal Reserve Board be called together to develop a plan for
attacking inflation, unemployment and critical shortages.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Tonight's opening session of the House Judiciary
Committee debate on he impeachment of President Nixon will be
televised live on ABC-TV and on various Public Broadcasting System
stations.
The proceedings are scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. EDT.
The National Public Radio system has said it will carry the debate
live from start to finish. CBS has said its radio network also will
carry the debate live but will break away for its regular six-minute
newscasts every hour.
NBC Radio and ABC Radio have said they will air the debate live
only when developments warrant. The Mutual Broadcasting System has
said it plans to carry highlights of each day's debate in special
evening programs.
TV networks are rotating coverage but each one can carry the debate
if it wishes.
NBC and CBS said, however, they had no plans for live coverge of
the opening session.
A spokeswoman for PBS said the public television system would
televise the opening debate to its conclusion but would not offer
live coverage on succeeding days. She said PBS would tape the debates
for rebroadcast at 7:30 p.m. EDT, even if live debate is underway at
that time.
Under the rotational system for the major networks, CBS would be
called on to broadcast the proceedings Thursday. CBS News President
Richard S. Salant said he had received a tentative scheule of debate
for the day, calling for a 10 a.m. start, l2:30 p.m. recess, a
session from 2 to 7 p.m. and then another two hours if necessary
starting at 8 p.m.
NBC has the live coverage responsibility Friday. NBC News President
Richard Wald said he had not received a schedule of that day's
proceedings.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon's hopes of avoiding impeachment
have suffered a setback on the eve of the the House Judiciary
Committee's historic debate today. Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan, a
conservative and one of those committee Republicans counted on to
oppose impeachment, announced he supports impeachment. Hogan is the
first committee Republican to announce his stand in advance of his
vote.
---
WASHINGTON (AP) - A hurriedly called meeting of the Supreme Court
was scheduled for today, with a decision awaited in the historic case
of President Nixon and the Watergate tapes. A court spokesman would
not say what the purpose of the session was, but speculation focused
on Nixon's fight to avoid surrendering White House records wanted as
evidence in the Watergate cover-up trial. Also anticipated from the
court, soon if not today, is a decision on a proposed school
integration plan for the Detroit area that involves busing pupils
across district lines.
---
WASHINGTON (AP) - A pro-impeachment lobby is trying to put hometown
pressure on several key Republican congrssmen whose votes could be
crucial when the House Judiciary Committee decides whether to
recommend impeachment of President Nixon. The National Committee on
the Presidency Inc. bought full-page newspaper advertisements in
several districts represented by Republican congressmen considered to
be swing votes on the committee.
---
WASHINGTON (AP) - Watergate prosecutors say they may bring bribery
charges against a dairy cooperative official in connection with
President Nixon's 1971 increase of federal milk price supports. One
of the co-op officials who promised $2 million for Nixon's 1972
campaign, David L. Parr, pleaded guilty to conspiring to donate
corporate money and services illegally to six candidates. But the
prosecutors said that Parr's guilty plea won't give him immunity from
prosecution on possible charges of bribery and conspiracy.
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ADV FOR 6:30 A.M. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield
says H.R. Haldeman was the closest staff man to President Nixon,
according to House Judiciary Committee testimony released today.
''Haldeman was the alter ego. Haldeman was almost the other
President. I can't emphasize that enough,'' Butterfield testified.
Butterfield described in detail the President's work habits and his
relationships to his staff.
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By PHILIP DOPOULOS
Associated Press Writer
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Constantine Caramanlis, Greece's new premier,
is a handsome, 6-foot, 67-year-old conservative who refused to
knuckle under to royalty or the military.
Impatient, he moves quickly to solve problems. As public works
minister, he ripped up trolley tracks of a British company that
refused to remove them.
Offered a cabinet post in 1936 by Gen. Ionnis Metaxas, Caramanlis
fired back: ''Mister Premier, all dictatorships contain the sperm of
death. They are doomed from the beginning, as will be yours.''
He was summoned home from Paris on Tuesday by the military to form
a civilian government of national unity. During 11 years of
self-imposed exile, he never wavered in his advocacy of an end to
military rule in Greece.
Caramanlis is a husky man of action who dislikes speechmaking - his
own or others. A political outsider, his family was not part of the
Athens circle that has dominated Greek politics.
''Costa'' Caramanlis was born in 1907 in Proti, a mountain village
in northern Greece. He speaks with the accent of rural Macdeonia,
where his father was a schoolteacher and tobacco grower.
After qualifying as a lawyer, he was elected to parliament in 1935.
In 1946 he was named labor minister, and King Paul named him premier
in 1955 after the death of Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, a
military boss and strongman. At 48, he was the youngest premier in
Greek history.
In 1956, his new National Radical Union won a narrow majority. He
campaigned against a coalition of three former premiers and some
Communists, declaring: ''I stand alone. I am one against all.''
His career ended abruptly in 1963, when King Paul and Queen
Frederika rejected his advice to call off a state visit to London
because he thought an unfriendly reception awaited them. Caramanlis
resigned, went to Paris, came back for the general election later in
the year, failed to win a majority and retired to Paris.
Nearly deaf through his early career, Caramanlis had an operation
in the United States. It helped, but he's still deaf in one ear. He
is known as thin-skinned and easily hurt by criticism, and reacts
with cold anger to sharp attacks.
But his solid administrative skills restored order to Greece's
turbulent postwar politics and stability to its economy.
He is strongly loyal to the Atlantic Alliance and pro-Western on
most issues.
True to Greek family tradition, he remained single until the last
of his three sisters had married, then in 1952 married the niece of a
former premier. During his exile in France, his wife Amalia returned
to Athens, divorced him and remarried.
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Editor's Note: David Lancashire, a member of The AP staff in
Israel, was vacationing with his wife and two children on the
north coast of Cyprus when the Turks invaded the island last
Saturday. Here is his account of their experiences.
---
By DAVID LANCASHIRE
Associated Press Writer
ABOARD HMS OLNA OFF CYPRUS (AP) - The Turkish landing on the north
coast of Cyprus caught the Lancashire family camping in a stone barn
in the mountains 11 miles west of Kyrenia.
The crash of bombs and the whine of jets woke us at dawn Saturday.
We spent the day wondering if the next bombs would blast the barn
down.
Between air raids we peered out at smoke pouring from the hills a
few miles away.
We showered from a hose to ward off the heat, and to pass the time
my wife perched our two sons - Michael, 11, and Adrian, 10 - on a
garbage can and gave them haircuts.
''There goes our friendly neighborhood battleship again,'' she told
the children as a warship a couple of miles away fired more shells
into the hills.
That night hundreds of fires blazed in the mountains, and at dawn
Sunday we made a run for safety in our rented car.
We reached an abandoned hotel less than a mile from the new
Zephyros Hotel. We spent part of the day huddled on the floor beneath
beds as bombing raids shook the building. A warship shelled the hotel
restaurant, and we raced to hide on a nearby beach.
The Turks, apparently spotting us and mistaking us for Greek
fighters, fired two salvoes. They missed, but sand and rock splinters
landed on our heads as we camouflaged ourselves with towels in case
planes came in to strafe us.
Sunday night we walked across a field to the Zephyros, and found it
gutted and blazing like a beacon. About 90 tourists - British,
German, French and Canadian - were camped in cave-like crannies in
the rocks below the hotel.
They told us Turkish jets spotted a .70-caliber Greek cannon
mounted outside the hotel Sunday afternoon, swooped in with half a
dozen passes and blasted the building to wreckage.
''I thought the hotel would be my grave,'' said Barbara Charilaou,
a 30-year-old housewife from Manchester, England, who had her
9-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter with her.
''When the bombs hit, the end of the basement corridor collapsed
and I thought we were trapped. There was smoke and the smell of
explosions and the sounds of the hotel collapsing, but we got out and
ran to the rocks.''
Miraculously, no one was hurt by the bomb blast or the fire that
followed.
The Greek Cypriot troops had abandoned the provocative cannon
before the air raid. The tourists tied white flags around its barrel
and pushed it over a cliff. Then they hoisted white flags made from
bedsheets, ducked each time the jets shrieked overhead, comforted the
children and waited in the searing sun for the British navy or United
Nations forces to come for them.
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - PresidentNixon will watch none of the
televised impeachement debate tonight by the House Judiciary
ommittee, a spokesman announced in advance.
This word came Tuesday from Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, who
last year insisted Nixon watched none of the televised hearings of
the Senate Watergate committee. Months later Nixon acknowledged he
had taken an occasional peek.
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''This hotel cost 3 million pounds (about $8 million), and it only
opened two months ago, and now it is ruined because of that damned
gun,'' an employe of the hotel said.
''And a lot of northern Cyprus is ruined, too,'' he added, looking
at the miles of smoke and flames along the coastline.
All Monday we crouched in the rocks, hiding from the air raids and
naval guns bombarding the Kyrenia coast. As shells whined overhead
and exploded around Greek Cypriot positions in the mountains, we
watched two Turkish troopships put reinforcements ashore fiv hours
before the cease-fire was to take effect.
Seven landing barges brought the Turks ashore at a beach six miles
west of the picturesque port of Kyrenia.
We had nothing to eat.
A U.N. team driving through the fighting zone to check for
survivors found us. British navy helicopters came Tuesday and flew us
to the Olna, a navy tanker that was already crowded with refugees.
Among them were 41 members of a Ukrainian folk dance troupe rescued
from Kyrenia.
They fed us at once - ''that's the best meal I've ever eaten,''said
my son Adrian. And an officer told us:
''The Soviet folk dancers are going to perform for us.''
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By JOHN BECKLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon's hopes of avoiding impeachment
have suffered a setback on the eve of the House Judiciary Committee's
historic debate today.
Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan, a conservative and one of those committee
Republicans counted on to oppose impeachment, announced Tuesday he
supports impeachment.
Hogan is the first committee Republican to announce he will vote
for impeachment. His decision touched off open talk of impeachment in
the Republican cloak room.
The debate, beginning at 7:30 p.m. EDT, will be carried nationally
on television and radio. A vote on whether to recommend impeachment
is expected by Friday or Saturday.
Hogan's announcement triggered a prediction by one GOP member that
as many as seven of the 17 committee Republicans may end up calling
for Nixon's impeachment. Hogan, himself, said in an interview Tuesday
night that he expected eight Republicans to vote for impeachment. All
21 Democrats are believed ready to vote for at least one article of
impeachment.
Another GOP member, who said he has expected about 40 Republicans
to vote for impeachment, raised his estimate to 80 after Hogan's
views became known.
Rep. John B. Anderson of Illinois, the third-ranking Republican in
the House, said, ''It seems to me quite obvious that Mr. Hogan's
statement is convincing evidence that the committee is disposed to
vote one or more articles and I would gather that the House would
follow suit, from what I hear in the corridors.''
One southerner said after the Hogan announcement, ''This had a
profound psychological impact. Many Republicans who were not on
anybody's list for impeachment were talking for the first time today
about their votes for it as being possible or probable.''
Hogan, a candidate for governor of Maryland, said at a packed news
conference, that after examining the evidence before the Judiciary
Committee, he is convinced Nixon had committed impeachable offenses
and should be removed from office.
Hogan said he had entered the impeachmennt proceedings with three
considerations: ''The allegations had to be impeachable offenses with
proof of criminality proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
''The evidence convinces me that my President has lied repeatedly,
deceiving public officials and the American people,'' said Hogan, a
political conservative and former FBI agent.
Addressing a main argument raised by Nixon defenders, that
impeachment would weaken the presidency, Hogan said, ''In my view if
we do not impeach the President after all that he has done, we would
be weakening the presidency even more.''
Hogan said he received two telephone calls from the White House
before his news conference, which he did not return, and one from
Vice President Gerald R. Ford. He said Ford only questioned the
timing of his announcement and did not try to influence him.
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Appearing on the House floor shortly after his annoucement, Hogan
met with hostility as well as sympathy. He said one member greeted
his arrival with ''let's hear it for Larry Hogan'' followed by a loud
raspberry.
He was also denounced by White House counselor Dean Burch, who said
Hogan was motivated by his political ambitions.
Hogan, one of Nixon's most vocal supporters on the committee during
the impeachment inquiry, said ''the body blow'' to his support for
the President was the transcripts of presidential conversations. ''I
read in his own words things that shocked me,'' Hogan said.
At least four other committee Republicans - Hamilton Fish Jr. of
New York, William S. Cohen of Maine, M. Caldwell Butler of Virginia
and Thomas F. Railsback of Illinois - have indicated they might vote
for impeachment.
In an effort to assure their support Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr.,
D-N.J., has been letting the four Republicans provide suggestions for
the proposed articles of impeachment that will be put before the
committee for debate.
Final drafting will be worked out in secret caucuses today, but it
now appears that only three articles will be presented, one charging
Nixon with obstruction of justice in the Watergate cover-up, one with
abuses of power for wiretapping American citizens and using the
Internal Revenue Service for political purposes, and one charging him
with contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with committee
subpoenas.
On a 21-16 vote, the committee adopted rules that call for voting
on each proposed article of impeachment before going on to the next
one.
Rodino has alloted each of the 38 members 15 minutes for general
debate, which should take until Thursday evening to complete. After
that the impeachment articles will be considered with each member
allowed five minutes debate on each article and amendments to them.
The opening committee debate will be televised live on ABC-TV and
on various Public Broadcasting System stations. The three major TV
networks are rotating coverage but each one can carry debate if it
wishes.
The National Public Radio system has said it will carry the debate
live from start to finish. CBS has said its radio network will carry
the debate live, but will break away for its regular six-minute
newscasts every hour.
If a committee majority recommends impeachment, the full House will
then vote with a majority needed there to impeach Nixon.
The next step would be a Senate trial. A two-thirds majority would
be needed to convict Nixon, removing him from office.
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Senate leaders have authorized preparations for a possible
impeachment trial of the President. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield
said Tuesday he thinks ''two or three weeks would be a reasonable
time'' for the White House to prepare an impeachment defense.
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Tuesday the
House should ''not pass the buck'' to the Senate on the impeachment
question because the American people would not accept that.
Republican National Chairman George Bush said he agrees with the
efforts of presidential lawyer James D. St. Clair to pin Watergate on
legal issues instead of Ziegler's political attack on the Judiciary
Committee.
In other Watergate-related developments:
-Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski said he is appalled at
the continuing refusal of White House officials to say whether Nixon
would obey a Supreme Court order to turn over disputed presidential
tapes.
-David L. Parr, a key figure in the milk-fund affair, pleaded
guilty to conspiring to donate corporate money illegally to Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills and other Democrats and
Republicans.
-California Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke denied at his perjury trial that
he was trying to protect former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell when he
testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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By JAY SHARBUTT
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The House Judiciary Committee's historic
impeachment debates, an equally historic moment for television, are
finally scheduled to start tonight at 7:30 p.m. EDT, broadcast live
across the nation.
ABC-TV, servng 183 stations, and the Public Broadcasting Service,
with 246 outlets, say they'll carry tonight's opening round live from
start to finish. It may last 2 1/2 hours, ABC estimates.
It marks the first time the House ever has allowed live TV coverage
of any of its proceedings. The debate comes during costly prime
evening time in the East - time which on a national basis can earn a
network at least $240,000 hourly because of the massive TV audience
then.
While the live coverage brings immediate news to the nation, it
also brings sad fiscal news to the networks. Unlike last year's
nationally televised Senate Watergate hearings, no commercials
interruptions are allowed during the committee's debate.
CBS and NBC are scheduling full live TV coverage of debate Thursday
and Friday, respectively, under a three-network rotation coverage
plan. They say they've no plans for live TV coverage tonight.
PBS says after tonight it won't offer live TV coverage. It instead
will videotape succeeding days of debate and rebroadcast them in full
at 7:30 p.m. EDT, even if live debate still continues at that hour.
CBS News President Richard S. Salant says a tentative debate
schedule he has for Thursday calls for arguments to start at 10 a.m.,
recess at 12:30 p.m., resume from 2 to 7 p.m., and, after a dinner
break, go from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT. But it could change.
NBC News President Richard Wald says NBC's live coverage plans for
Friday are uncertain because he's received no debate schedule yet.
Under the rotation plan, any network can air live coverage of all
or part of the debates even on those days it hasn't the prime
responsibility for carrying them live from start to finish.
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EDITORS:
Thursday's Radio-TV column, about TV coverage of the House
Judiciary Committee's impeachment debate, will move spot in
Thursday's PMs cycle.
The AP
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By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) - It takes more than an energy crisis to make
Americans permanently change their lifestyle.
That is one conclusion you might draw from a study by The
Conference Board that shows plans to vacation by automobile are back
to where they were before the energy scare, following a sharp decline
for a few months.
Moreover, automobile sales now show signs of improving, if not
immediately and sharply than gradually and over the longer term.
Appliance sales seem to have survived the crisis. And the desire for
air conditioning seems stronger than that for conservation.
But major changes do seem to have taken place in industry, the most
significant of them probably being the realization that enormous and
costly amounts of energy are wasted every day.
For the first time ever, thousands of companies have conducted
energy audits during the past few months. Energy managers were
appointed, and many of them discovered fuel being used as if it cost
nothing.
The operator of a rolling mill in Pennsylvania described his
experience this way:
''The instant we began examining our operations we found we were
absurdly wasteful. Men would open a furnace door to warm themselves.
We would open big doors of a heated warehouse just to let out a
forklift.''
In the actual production of the metal, he said, workers maintained
the furnace flame as hot as possible, oblivious to what is now called
''flame management,'' or the mixing of fuel and air to give the
maximum BTUs - British thermal units - per unit of fuel.
Recycling of heat has assumed great importance. The production
facilities of many companies generate cosiderable heat that
customarily is vented outside, while separate and expensive systems
are used to heat offices.
Consultants report that on almost every assignment they find
obvious misuses of energy, the result of practices dating to the days
when fuel was considered cheap, available and of little consequence.
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Combined with environmental pressures, the energy crisis also
spurred recycling of some products.
For many decades it was assumed without question that ''virgin is
best,'' meaning that anything from wool to steel was better if made
from new rather than reused raw materials.
While this might remain so in some instances, virgin raw materials
don't always produce the best product for the price.
The Aluminum Association states, for example, that used aluminum
can be recycled back to ingot for less than 5 per cent of the energy
required in producing the original.
Another change that appears permanent is in the automobile
industry, where millions of vehicles now are being produced and sold
on the basis of fuel economy rather than style or luxury.
In fact, the most intense competition among carmakers is in the
miles-per-gallon race, whereas just a few years ago the battle was in
terms of horsepower.
What all this seems to say is that Americans understand anything
when it's stated in terms of money. But if The Conference Board is
correct, it doesn't seem to apply to vacations.
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Greek-Cyprus Rdp Bjt 480, Two Takes 810
Wirephotos NY4, 8, ATH2
By The Associated Press
Constantine Caramanlis was sworn in as premier of Greece early
today, apparently ending seven years of military dictatorship for the
country that gave the world democracy.
There was also a change of presidents in the rebel Greek Cypriot
regime on Cyprus. A supporter of ousted President Makarios was named,
and in New York Makarios said he expected to return to the presidncy
in a few weeks.
News dispatches from Cyprus reported only scattered fighting
Tuesday. But United Nations forces reported a number of cease-fire
violations, and the Security Council adopted a new resolution
demanding compliance with the truce that began Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of jubilant Greeks thronged the streets of
Athens, dancing, singing, hugging and kissing, after the announcement
that ''the armed forces have decided to transfer power to a civilian
government'' headed by Caramanlis, the elder statesman of Greek
democracy and a self-exile in Paris for 11 years.
Caramanlis, 67, told a cheering crowd at the Athens airport early
this morning: ''I know that the Greek people in difficult moments are
united, and together I hope we will be able to construct a new
democracy.''
Chanting ''no mockery, true democracy,'' cheering crowds lined his
route into the city, and he went at once to a meeting at the
parliament building with the leaders of the military dictatorship,
civilian politicians who have been in limbo for the past seven years,
and two foreign ambassadors, Henry Tasca of the United States and
Robin Hooper of Britain.
The government radio said the ambassadors were called in to receive
a protest against alleged Turkish violations of the cease-fire on
Cyprus.
The conference lasted for two hours and then Caramanlis, presumably
satisfied that the military leaders would return to the barracks and
give him a free hand, was sworn in. The oath was administered by
Archbishop Seraphim in the presence of President Phaedon Gizikis, a
general who was installed last November when a conservative group of
generals overthrew the previous military dictator, President George
Papadopoulos.
The government radio said Caramanlis would announce his cabinet
later today.
The military regime's decision to call on Caramanlis came after
widespread international condemnation of the coup on Cyprus, for
which Athens was generally blamed; the successful Turkish invasion of
the island, and the failure of the Greek regime to give any military
support to its Greek Cypriot wards against the invaders.
The rebel Cypriot regime also was tottering. The president
installed by the Greek army officers who led the coup, Nicos Sampson,
resigned. Glafcos Clerides, speaker of the House of Representatives
and a close associate of Makarios, was named to succeed him.
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In a radio address, Clerides urged all Cypriots to ''forget the
past and present'' and to ''work hard for the good of the Cypriot
people regardless of race, communal feeling or politics.'' In the
past, he acted as president when Makarios traveled abroad. The Athens
junta was reported to consider him an acceptable replacement for the
archbishop. But he repeatedly made clear that he would never take
over unless elected by the people.
The evacuation of foreigners continued from the British bases in
Dhekelia and Akrotiri, in southern Cyprus. The bases were reported
jammed with refugees, and British forces were taking them to waiting
ships.
The British government had hoped to open negotiations in Geneva
today between the Greeks and Turks to arrange for a peace agreement,
including the restoration of constitutional rule to Cyprus. But a
U.N. spokesman in New York said he understood that the change in the
Greek government would delay the meeting.
The government upheaval in Athens brought former King Constantine
from his home on the outskirts of London to a conference with the
British government and then he moved into a hotel in the West End.
Apparently he was hoping he would be called back to the throne he
fled in 1967 after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the military
regime.
The British government was reported extremely cautious toward the
34-year-old ex-king. ''We are not in the kingmaking business,'' said
one British official.
The Greek military regime abolished the monarchy on June 1, 1973,
and a national referendum the next month confirmed the abolition.
The news of the government ship in Athens caused surprise and a
restrained but unconcealed feeling of relief in U. S. government
circles in Washington.
Officially, the Nixon administration declined comment. Senior
officials were more reserved than usual and advised caution, but
Caramanlis is highly regarded in Washington.
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Ioannides Bjt 340
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Brig. Gen. Dimitrios Ioannides, the strongman
of the Greek dictatorship for the past eight months, was a mystery
man last November and still is.
He is chief of the military police, who have been accused of
torturing the regime's opponents. His name spells terror for civilian
officials. None will speak of him in public or answer questions on
his activities.
When Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco shuttled back and
forth between Greece and Turkey seeking a cease-fire in Cyprus, the
55-year-old brigadier was at every one of his meetings in Athens.
''Obviously, he is the man making the key decisions surrounding
Cyprus,'' an informant said.
Western diplomats now believe that Ioannides probably was also the
author of the coup in Cyprus against President Makarios.
''Ioannides' image is tarnished now and he'll have to give an
accounting to his fellow officers,'' one source said. ''It may not be
too pleasant.''
It remains to be seen what will happen to him when the new regime
headed by Constantine Caramanlis takes hold.
Ioannides was promoted a year ago from colonel to brigadier, a
giant step in the Greek army, and has long been known as a
behind-the-scenes power. He was generally credited with engineering
the overthrow of George Papadopoulos' military dictatorship in a
bloodless coup last November and installing Gen. Phaedon Gizikis as
president.
''He was a mystery man at the time of the November coup and still
is a mystery man today,'' one Western diplomat said.
Ioannides has been described by several of his former colleagues as
ruthless but completely honest. He reportedly broke with Papadopoulos
because former army officers serving in ministerial posts were making
personal fortunes.
''I believe this is the first time Ioannides has come to the
forefront. Cyprus is the only thing that could have brought him
out,'' one diplomatic source said.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Barring another legal ruling, the Louisville and
Jefferson County school districts will become the first in the nation
to be merged by federal court order for desegregation purposes. Will
stand.
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All-Star Newspage 230
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) - Steve Garvey of the Los Angeles Dodgers
wasn't about to be stopped by an ear infection, or American League
pitching, in the 45th All-Star Game.
The 25-year-old first baseman, his face visibly swollen, slapped a
single and a double, driving in one run and scoring another in the
National League's 7-2 triumph on Tuesday night.
For Garvey, the only starter elected to the team by write-in fan
ballots, playing in the game was the realization of a childhood
dream. And his selection as the contest's Most Valuable Player made
the night complete.
''There was no other way I could thank the people who voted for
me,'' Garvey said.
The National League victory, made easy as five pitchers held the
American League to just four hits, was the 11th in the last 12
classics. Once trailing in the series 12-4, the NL now owns a 26-18
edge over-all, with one tie on the record.
Ken Brett of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the only member of the host
club to make the squad, got credit for the victory, while Boston Red
Sox right-hander Luis Tiant took the loss.
Reggie Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals hit the game's only home
run in the seventh inning, a solo shot that pushed the National
League lead to 5-2. The Nationals scored two more runs in the eighth
to complete the rout and hand the Americans their third straight
loss.
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Nixon 490
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - President Nixon kept the focus of his
official schedule on economic problems today, summoning Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development James T. Lynn for a meeting on the
slumping housing industry.
Joining Nixon and Lynn for the Western White House conference were
director Kenneth R. Cole Jr. of the Domestic Council and Kenneth
Rush, the President's counsellor for economic affairs.
Nixon announced Tuesday he is nominating Alan Greenspan, a
48-year-old New York economic consultant, to be chairman of his
Council of Economic Advisers. Greenspan will succeed Herbert Stein,
who is taking a teaching post Sept. 1 after serving on the council
for five years.
Greenspan joined Nixon and Rush for a three-hour meeting Tuesday
with some three dozen business leaders and economists and one labor
representative, President Frank E. Fitzsimmons of the Teamsters
union.
The session was a prelude to a Nixon speech on economic affairs
Thursday before businessmen and manufacturers in Los Angeles.
The 4:30 p.m. PDT address will be telecast live by ABC and NBC.
CBS, which is committed to telecasting the House Judiciary
Committee's impeachment proceedings, said it will carry the speech if
the committee is in recess at the time the President speaks.
Greenspan told newsmen that rarely are the types of economic
problems facing the nation so severe.
''I would not like to, in any sense, give you an indication that
they are simple to solve, simply to identify and we are going back to
a stable economy very quickly,'' he said.
''However, I think it is a mistake . . . to take on a pessimistic,
defeatist view toward this problem. . . . I finally sense throughout
the nation the first real attempt, the first awareness of what the
difficulties are.''
Rush reported the consensus of those attending the economic
conference was one of approving the administration's fiscal policy,
although some urged deeper budget cuts. He said some also argued for
an easier monetary policy - an area within the province of the
independent Federal Reserve Board.
''I would say the consensus of the meeting was that tax cuts or tax
increases were not desirable at this time, both from the standpoint
of good economic policy, and from the standpoint of what is
politicaly practical,'' rush said.
He indicated Nixon would announce no major new economic initiatives
in his Los Angeles address.
The White House aide said many of the businessmen expressed concern
''at the large amount of capital investment going into environmental
controls that are not productive in terms of increased production. I
am not discussing the pros or cons of this, but I am commenting now
on what was the discussion with regard to the impact.''
Asked if he thought Nixon's leadership had been so eroded by
Watergate that the President could not effectively mount an attack on
inflation, Rush said, ''I think that the people are far more
concerned about inflation than they are about Watergate or any other
single subject. I think the people want to rally around and to
cooperate in overcoming an evil that affects everyone.''
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DALLAS, Tex. (AP) - Republican National Chairman George Bush says
he agrees with presidential lawyer James D. St. Clair's efforts to
keep President Nixon's Watergate defense on a nonpartisan level.
Bush said he feels presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler made a
mistake in calling the House Judiciary Committee a ''kangaroo
court.''
''I just don't believe it,'' Bush told newsmen on Tuesday. ''I
don't think it's a witch hunt.''
The GOP chief stopped short, however, of saying Ziegler's remarks
about the Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry were an
embarrassment to Republicans who want to keep the party out of
Watergate.
''He's saying his thing and doing his thing,'' Bush said.
Bush said he doubts a Senate trial on impeachment will take place.
He expressed more concern about getting it all over with before the
fall elections.
''I'm anxious to get this matter behind this country. Whatever it
takes to do that, I'm for,'' Bush said. ''The main thing is to get it
over quickly.''
Bush acknowledged his efforts to disassociate the party from
Watergate have failed.
''I don't think I've done my job,'' Bush said. ''People do link
them together - the party and Watergate.''
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Strip Mining 320
By TOM RAUM
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House prepared for final action on a bill
regulating strip mining with sponsors apparently winning their long
battle to ward off both weakening and strengthening amendments.
The bill to establish national environmental standards on surface
coal mining emerged from its fourth day of debate Tuesday relatively
intact. A final vote today seemed assured when both supporters and
opponents agreed to limit debate to three hours.
Sponsors claim they have the votes necessary to pass a strip mining
control bill roughly similar to one that has passed the Senate.
A number of ky issues remain to be resolved today, including a
proposed severance tax on coal of about 30 cents per ton that would
be used to help reclaim scarred land from abandoned strip mining
operations.
Opponents of the tax claim it will result in higher coal prices,
passed along to consumers in the form of higher electric bills. But a
number of environmentalists and congressmen from eastern coal states
say the tax should be even higher to help restore the mined-over
mountainsides of Appalachia.
Another critical issue deals with the rights of surface land owners
on western land where the federal government owns the coal beneath
the surface. The Senate-passed bill bans all strip mining on such
land while the House proposal would require the written consent of
the surface owners before this federal coal could be mined.
However, a number of western congressmen claim the House provision
would not adequately protect the surface owners. Still others claim
it gives them too much protection and would permit the surface owners
to blackmail mining companies by withholding their consent unless
they are paid large sums.
The House continued to reject major amendments by environmentalists
seeking to strengthen it and by a number of Republicans who claim it
is too strong and should be made weaker to protect the nation's coal
production.
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Current Quotes
By The Associated Press
''The evidence convinces me the President has lied repeatedly,
deceiving public officials and the American people.'' - Rep. Lawrence
J. Hogan, R-Md., a member of the House Judiciary Committee who says
he will vote for impechment.
''The full employment budget is no longer applicable as a guiding
concept,'' - Roy Ash, White House budget director, predicting an
increase in unemployment from 5 to 6 per cent.
''I thought the hotel would be my grave. When the bombs hit the end
of the basement corridor collapsed. There was smoke and the smell of
explosions and the sounds of the hotel collapsing. . .'' - Barbara
Charilaou, an English tourist in Cyrpus during the Turkish invasion.
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Busing 460
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Barring another legal ruling, the Louisville
and Jefferson County school districts will become the first in the
nation to be merged by federal court order for desegregation
purposes.
U.S. District Court Judge James Gordon ordered on Tuesday the
immediate merger of the districts to facilitate a new desegregation
plan that calls for the busing of 30,548 students.
The plan also includes the 350-pupil suburban Anchorage School
District. The Anchorage district is not included in Gordon's merger
order, however.
School officials estimate the start-up cost of th additional
busing at $2.7 million to $3.3 million.
Officials of the city district said Gordon's order would be
appealed to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati,
Ohio.
The 6th Circuit had ordered in December that the districts must be
integrated. The order is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on
appeal by the districts.
The merger of the Louisville district, which is more than 50 per
cent black, with the predominantly white county district, would
create the ninth largest district in the nation, with about 140,000
students. The Louisville district is within the county's boundaries.
The single district would have a white-black ratio of about 80-20.
Under the desegregation plan, all district schols would have
enrollments of 16 to 28 per cent black.
Gordon ordered the merger shortly after the 6th Circuit had refused
to postpone busing under the plan beyond this fall.
Gordon ruled that County Schools Supt. Richard Van Hoose would head
the merged system, with a 10-member school board composed of board
members from both districts.
Under the desegregation plan, white pupils will be bused two or
three years out of their 12 school years, while black pupils will be
bused nine or 10 years.
Basically, the plan sets up three types of clusters of schools for
busing purposes, with a slightly different black-white ratio in each
type of cluster.
In one cluster, on the outer fringes of the county, enrollment will
be about 16 per cent black. Clusters closer in toward the city will
be about 20 per cent black, while the clusters closest to the
existing black schools in the city will be about 25 per cent black.
Officials said the object of keeping the racial composition to 16
per cent black in the outer reaches of the county is to minimize
long-distance busing.
The desegregation order stems from three-year-old litigation
brought by three civil rights groups, the Louisville chapter of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the State
Commission for Human Rights and the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union.
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AP National Roundup 490
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - President Nixon kept the focus of his
official schedule on economic problems today, summoning Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development James T. Lynn for a meeting on the
slumping housing industry. Joining Nixon and Lynn for the Western
White House conference were director Kenneth R. Cole Jr. of the
Domestic Council and Kenneth Rush, the President's counsellor for
economic affairs. Nixon announced Tuesday he is nominating Alan
Greenspan, a 48-year-old New York economic consultant, to be chairman
of his Council of Economic Advisers. Greenspan will succeed Herbert
Stein, who is taking a teaching post Sept. 1 after serving on the
council for five years. Greenspan joined Nixon and Rush for a
three-hour meeting Tuesday with some three dozen business leaders and
economists and one labor representative, President Frank E.
Fitzsimmons of the Teamsters union. The session was a prelude to a
Nixon speech on economic affairs Thursday before businessmen and
manufacturers in Los Angeles.
---
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L.
Ziegler says he won't be surprised if the House Judiciary Committee
recommends impechment of President Nixon. But he says if it does,
the full House will reject impeachment. ''I will not be surprised at
all if the House Judiciary Committee passes to the floor a bill of
impeachment. . . . If they do, that will not be approved by the House
of Representatives because they will make their decision on fact and
not conjecture or implication,'' Ziegler told newsmen Tuesday. He
said the House ''should not vote just to pass the matter to the
Senate if they do not have the facts and put the nation through a
wrenching ordeal.''
---
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Barring another legal ruling, the Louisville
and Jefferson County school districts will become the first in the
nation to be merged by federal court order for desegregation
purposes. U.S. District Court Judge James Gordon ordered on Tuesday
the immediate merger of the districts to facilitate a new
desegregation plan that calls for the busing of 30,548 students. The
plan also includes the 350-pupil suburban Anchorage School District.
The Anchorage district is not included in Gordon's merger order,
however. School officials estimate the start-up cost of the
additional busing at $2.7 million to $3.3 million. Officials of the
city district said Gordon's order would be appealed to the 6th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati, Ohio.
---
NEW YORK (AP) - The Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Rt.
Rev. John M. Allin, has appealed to participants in a planned
irregular ordination of women to call it off. The church does not
permit the ordination of women as priests. In individual telegrams
sent Tuesday to the three bishops and 11 women involved, he urged
them to cancel next Monday's ceremonies in Philadelphia. In separate
telegrams to the women, Bishop Allin said they should not take the
step ''before the necessary canonical changes are made.'' Proposals
for such changes have been turned down by the last two triennial
conventions of the church.
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AP Foreign Roundup 430
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Constantine Caramanlis was sworn in as
premier of Greece early today, apparently ending seven years of
military dictatorship for the country that gave the world democracy.
Hundreds of thousands of jubilant Greeks thronged te streets of
Athens, dancing, singing, hugging and kissing, after the announcement
that ''THE ARMED FORCES HAVE DECIDED TO TRANSFER POWER TO A CIVILIAN
GOVERNMENT'' HEADED BY Caramanlis, the elder statesman of Greek
democracy and a self-exile in Paris for 11 years. There was also a
change of presidents in the rebel Greek Cypriot regime on Cyprus. A
supporter of ousted President Makarios was named, and in New York
Makarios said he expected to return to the presidency in a few weeks.
News dispatches from Cyprus reported only scattered fighting Tuesday.
But United Nations forces reported a number of cease-fire violations,
and the Security Council adopted a new resolution demanding
compliance with the truce that began Monday.
---
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Constantine Caramanlis, Greece's new premier,
is a handsome, 6-foot, 67-year-old conservative who refused to
knuckle under to royalty or the military. Offered a cabinet post in
1936 by Gen. Ionnis Metaxas, Caramanlis fired back: ''Mister Premier,
all dictatorships contain the sperm of death. They are doomed from
the beginning, as will be yours.'' He was premier from 1955 until
1963, when he resigned after King Paul and Queen Frederika rejected
his advice to call off a state visit to London because he thought an
unfriendly reception awaited them. Caramanlis failed to win a
majority in a general election later that year and has lived in Paris
- a self-exile - ever since.
---
MADRID, Spain (AP) - No matter how Generalissimo Francisco Franco's
battle to regain his health turns out, Spain already has slipped into
the post-Franco era. The crossover took place when the 81-year-old
chief of state, fighting for his life in a Madrid clinic, temporarily
transferred the last of his vast powers to Prince Juan Carlos de
Borbon. Constitutionally, Franco can rescind at any time the verbal
order surrendering power. But to bounce the chief-of-state powers
back and forth could be damaging to both Franco and the 36-year-old
prince he has trained from boyhood to be his successor. ''The time to
go from one period to another has arrived,'' said one official.
Franco surrendered the first of the powers that he took after winning
the civil war in 1939 when he named his longtime confidant, Adm. Luis
Carrero Blanco, as premier in June 1973. The admiral was assassinated
last December, and the mayor of Madrid, Carlos Arias Navarro,
replaced him. Juan Carlos and Arias Navarro are now the country's
leaders.
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Women Priests 350
By GEORGE CORNELL
AP Religion Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Rt.
Rev. John M. Allin, has appealed to participants in a planned
irregular ordination of women to call it off.
The church does not permit the ordination of women as priests.
In individual telegrams sent Tuesday to the three bishops and 11
women involved, he urged them to cancel next Monday's ceremonies in
Philadelphia.
''For the sake of the unity of the church and the cause of
ordination of women to the priesthood, I beg you to reconsider your
intention. . . ,'' he said in separate telegrams to the women.
He said they should not take the step ''before the necessary
canonical changes are made.'' Proposals for such changes have been
turned down by the last two triennial conventions of the church.
Bishop Allin, interrupting his vacation to deal with the matter
that has stirred a furor in the 3.1-million-member church, also
pleaded with the three bishops ''to reconsider your decision'' to
ordain the women.
He said the contemplated action was without the request of the
bishops of the dioceses to which the women belong and without consent
of the diocesan standing committees - as required in church canons.
He said the president of the church's lay-clergy House of Deputies,
the Rev. John M. Coburn, of New York, and heads of the church's eight
regional provinces, joined him in the plea to the three bishops to
abandon the planned ordinations.
The three are Bishop Robert L. Dewitt, resigned bishop of
Philadelphia, and retired Bishops Daniel Corrigan, now of Denver, and
Edward Randolph Welles, now of Manset, Maine.
''With respect for your personal convictions, I must nevertheless
exercise my responsibility to obey and uphold the canons of this
church. . . ,'' Bishop Allin said.
He told the women he was ''deeply concerned about the relationship
obstacles'' that could result from their ordination, both in their
own dioceses ''as well as in the church as a whole.''
Earlier checks with bishops of the women's home dioceses showed
that while most favored changes allowing ordination of women, they
would bar the women from serving as priests under the circumstances.
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Nixon-Ziegler 270
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L.
Ziegler says he won't be surprised if the House Judiciary Committee
recommends impeachment of President Nixon. But he says if it does,
the full House will reject impeachment.
''I will not be surprised at all if the House Judiciary Committee
passes to the floor a bill of impeachment. . . . If they do, that
will not be approved by the House of Representatives because they
will make their decision on fact and not conjecture or implication,''
Ziegler told newsmen Tuesday.
Hesaid the House ''should not vote just to pass the matter to the
Senate if they do not have the facts and put the nation through a
wrenching ordeal.''
He said such action by the House would signify a ''pass the buck''
attitude.
He repeated that he, Nixon and presidential Watergate lawyer James
D. St. Clair feel there is no evidence of major crimes that would
warrant impeachment.
The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin public deliberations
tonight on proposed articles of impeachment.
Ziegler said St. Clair should have been given an opportunity to
participate in the public sessions because the committee's counsel,
John Doar, ''will be there with his one-sided approach.''
Ziegler met with reporters outside the Western White House during a
three-hour session the President held for industrial and banking
executives, economists and educators and one labor leader, Teamsters
union president Frank Fitzsimmons. They were discussing ways to cope
with inflation and other economic problems.
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People In The News 300
By The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Almost all of the $12,000 loot including
an $8,500 diamond bracelet taken in the burglary of the home of
Atlantic City's Mayor Joseph F. Bradway Jr. has been returned by
mail.
''I couldn't believe it,'' said millionaire Bradway on Tuesday
after the package was delivered by a postman to the City Hall office.
The burglar did not return several hundred dollars in cash and two
clocks taken in the July 13 break-in.
---
NEW YORK (AP) - The stars of a half dozen Broadway shows including
Hermione Gingold, Lynn Redgrave, and Joan Hackett personally have
told New York policemen their work is appreciated.
The theater personalities stopped by the Midtown North Precinct
Station Tuesday afternoon to thank the officers for cleaning up the
area and making it safer for theatergoers and workers.
''I haven't played here since 1967, and then I was kind of
scared,'' said Miss Redgrave. ''I've noticed a huge, huge
difference.''
---
TRENTON (AP) - The New Jersey Supreme Court has righted the wrong
done to Harry Wright's ''Write-in-Wright'' election campaign by
voters who wrote in Wright wrong.
The highest court unanimously upheld on Tuesday an Appellate
Division of Superior Court ruling that restored 294 of Wright's votes
in a Sparta Township council election. The ballots had been declared
invalid because voters wrote only ''Wright'' without a first name.
A trial court judge had ruled that there was no way to be certain
that those voters meant Harry Wright, rather than one of the eight
other Wrights in the small Sussex County community, even though all
the others said they didn't want the job.
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Roudebush-VA 130
WASHINGTON (AP) - The appointment of Richard L. Roudebush as
administrator of the Veterans Administration is imminent, Rep. John
Paul Hammerschmidt, R-Ark., predicts.
Hammerschmidt, the ranking minority member of the House Veterans
Affairs Committee, said on Tuesday night that Roudebush was
recommended by a bipartisan majority of the committee.
Roudebush now is deputy administrator of the VA, the third largest
agency in the government. Last month he was among four men reportedly
being considered as candidates for the top job of the agency.
If appointed by the President and confirmed by congress, Roudebush
would succeed Donald E. Johnson, who resigned.
Roudebush is a former Indiana congressman. He also is a past
commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Deaths
Dr. Fred F. Lininger
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Dr. Fred F. Lininger, 81, chief of the
United Nations' Agriculture Institution and Services Branch following
his retirement from Penn State University, died Monday night. He
retired in 1952 as director of Penn State's Agriculture Experiment
Station, then worked for the UN food and agriculture organization in
Rome.
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Citicorp 400
By JOSH FITZHUGH
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Citicorp's controversial floating-rate notes, which
go on sale today, were designed to attract the small investor with
high yields and relatively great security.
And, in a measure of their success, brokers reported late Tuesday
that nearly all of the $650 million in notes had been signed for
prior to the official offering at midmorning.
''Oh, it's quite possible that there are still some notes
available, but not many,'' said Squire Reimer, a dealer with First
Boston Corp., lead underwriter for the group of firms selling the
Citicorp issue to the public.
One analyst who has been watching the issue closely also says the
bulk of the notes have been taken by the small investor through pools
set up by brokers.
Floating-rate notes touched off a storm in the financial world when
Citicorp, parent company of New York's First National City Bank,
announced plans to offer them.
Part of the criticism grew from their attractiveness.
The interest paid on the notes would be tied to three-month
Treasury bills, and would exceed levels permitted under the nation's
banking laws. In addition the notes would come in small denominations
of $1,000, with an initial minimum of $5,000.
But te country's thrift institutions, mutual savings banks and
savings and loans associations, said the notes would draw money out
of their coffers and thereby hurt the mortgage market to which they
supply funds.
After some jawboning by the Federal Reserve Board, and a hearing by
the House Banking Committee, Citicorp agreed to change its terms to
quiet some of the criticism.
In the compromise, Citicorp said it would prohibit redemption of
the notes at par for a period of two years, while guaranteeing an
initial interest rate of 9.7 per cent until June 1975.
Brokers say, however, that the notes will still be bought and sold
before two years have elapsed by trading on the New York Stock
Exchange and the over-the-counter market.
Though trading there will require the payment of a commission,
brokers expect the notes to sell at a slight premium, which may
permit the equivalent of redemption at par without loss.
And, for investors unable to obtain the Citicorp notes, there are
similar issues planned by Chase Manhattan Corp. and Crocker National
Corp.
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Broadcast Ownership 210
WASHINGTON (AP) - A proposal to ban joint ownership of newspaper
and radio stations in the same city will be considered by the Federal
Communications Commission in a three-day set of hearings beginning
today.
The FCC also is deliberating whether to forbid cross ownership of
TV and radio stations and cross-ownership of newspapers and radio
stations, but the primary focus is on newspaper-TV ownership.
A commission decision in favor of the proposal would force 231
daily newspapers which own broadcasting stations to split their
holdings within five years.
The Justice Department has urged the breakup of newspaper-TV
combinations, claiming they have too much concentrated power. The
department recently filed petitions with the FCC to block broadcast
license renewals to newspaper-owned TV and radio stations in St.
Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Des Moines and Topeka.
The Justice Department was scheduled as the first witness at the
hearing, followed by the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
The department has suggested it is not necessary to split up
radio-newspaper or radio-television combinations in larger markets.
It says cross ownership should be examined in the smaller markets
below the top 100 markets.
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Falk-O'Connor 190
LOS NGELES (AP) - Actor Peter Falk has reached an out-of-court
settlement in his dispute with Universal Studios and is back at work
on the television series ''Columbo.''
In the meantime, Carroll O'Connor remained away from CBS's ''All in
the Family'' and a second show was taped Tuesday night without him.
Terms of the Falk settlement announced Tuesday were not disclosed.
Falk charged in a suit filed June 21 that Universal had breached
his contract by failure to make a $132,777 payment to Falk's company,
Jackie Productions, on June 4. He asked that a declaration of relief
from his contract with the studio be granted.
At CBS, a spokesman for Tandem Productions said he believed
O'Connor, who stars as Archie Bunker in ''All in the Family,'' would
show up for a one-line appearance at the end of next week's taping.
O'Connor filed suit in June against Tandem, asking Los Angeles
Superior Court to declare whether he has a valid contract.
There have been reports that if O'Connor does not return next week
he will be permanently written out of the series, but the Tandem
spokesman said Tuesday, ''Everything has to be settled a week from
tonight.''
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Hijack 100
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bill has been sent to the White House
authorizing the death penalty when an aircraft hijacking results in
the death of an innocent person.
The measure, approved by the Senate without dissent Tuesday, also
includes a provision for ratifying an international agreement on
control of hijacking.
Congress has been working on the bill for almost two years. It
gives the Federal Aviation Administration exclusive authority over
law-enforcement activities dealing with hijacking once a plane's
doors are closed prior to takeoff.
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WIREPHOTO ADVISORY
EDITORS:
Wirephoto plans transmission of the following prior to 7:30 a.m.
EDT, network conditions permitting: Maryland Rep. Larry Hogan, who
came out for impeachment, vert; David Parr, who is involved in the
milk fund scandal, leaving court, vert; action in the All-Star
baseball game.
AP Photos
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Greek-Cyprus CORRECTION
UNDATED Greek-Cyprus Rdp Bjt, a035, to correct ''ship'' to
''shift'' sub next to last graf: abolition.
The news of the government shift in Athens caused surprise and a
restrained but unconcealed feeling of relief in U. S. government
circles in Washington.
Officially: last graf
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Vet-Cancer 300
By DAVID HERN
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts House of Representatives has
reversed itself and rejected legislation granting special state
benefits to a veteran dying from cancer.
The measure would have provided John A. Ellis of Dedham, Mass.,
with state benefits equal to what the Veterans Administration denied
him on the grounds the cancer of the lymph glands from which he
suffers is not service-connected.
He claims he had symptoms of the disease before leaving the service
four years ago as an Air Force sergeant. Under VA regulations
covering disability, there must be proof of a disabling disease while
a person is in service or within a year after leaving the military.
There was no such finding in Ellis' case.
The Senate-approved bill for the 28-year-old father of three was
approved on a voice vote last week. But when it was called up again
Tuesday, it was killed on a roll call vote of 128 to 77.
Rep. Joseph D. Early defended the bill as an example of
''government with a heart.''
Rep. William F. Hogan, former state commander of the American
Legion, opposed the bill. He said that if there is a ''shadow of
doubt'' with the VA on such cases, the veteran gets the benefit of
the doubt.
''If we do it for one, I will file a bill to do it for all,'' Hogan
said.
At stake is a substantial difference in benefits, particularly
survivorship rights. Legislative reports indicated that if the VA had
found the cancer originated during Ellis' military career, benefits
would be $679 monthly, with important additional considerations for
surviving children.
Ellis worked as a welder until two years ago and now receives $171
monthly for nonservice-connected disability.
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Editors: Holger Jensen, Associated Press roving Middle East
correspondent, and his wife Jeanne were on Cyprus last week during
the coup and the Turkish invasion. Jensen was captured by
the Turkish invaders once and detained another time. His wife, of
Turlock, Calif., had her own adventures.
-- -
Caught 450, Two Takes 570
By JEANNE JENSEN
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The two years I spent in Vietnam as a
correspondent's wife can't compare with the last week on the island
of Cyprus.
The coup d'etat that overthrew President Makarios caught us that
Monday morning as we prepared to spend a day skin diving from a small
boat.
We were on board the boat in Kyrenia harbor on the north coast and
ready to go when suddenly the port was full of navy boats and we were
told we would not be allowed to leave.
We went back to our hotel and tried to call Nicosia, but the lines
were cut. When we heard martial music on the radio, Holger knew it
was a coup and we threw everything in our bags and were off in 10
minutes. We arrived in Nicosia minutes before the road was closed.
We checked in at the Ledra Palace Hotel and Holger started covering
the coup developments.
About 5 o'clock on Saturday we were awakened by bombing, air raid
sirens and lots of machine gun fire.
The lights went out and we spent the rest of the morning - more
than 300 of us - waiting for the firing to die down.
But it never did. Instead, it got worse.
You see, the Ledra Palace almost straddles what is called the
''green line,'' the line separating the hostile Greek and Turkish
sectors of Nicosia.
All the women and children in the hotel later were forced into the
hotel cellar, where we slept like rats. There was not much to eat or
drink.
We all were exhausted, dirty, hungry - and frightened.
We could hear the BBC broadcasting reports that we were trapped in
the hotel. But somehow I just couldn't relate with those people the
radio kept talking about.
But the worst was to come.
The next morning, Sunday, the hotel was hit by mortar fire. One
shell smashed our water supply and another the hotel's front
entrance.
In the cellar, we thought it was the end.
Dust came up in big clouds and we believed the hotel had caught
fire.
We expected the American embassy to come rescue us at any moment.
Instead, officials told us to make our own way to the embassy.
It was easier said than done.
The Greek Cypriot fighters inside the hotel said they were holding
us hostage and would shoot us if we went out. The Greeks said the
Turks wouldn't bomb the hotel as long as there were foreigners
inside.
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But the Turks made it clear they would bomb regardless.
At that point, I guess we sort of panicked. Holger grabbed me, and,
with many others, we ran to our rented cars waving American, British
and white flags.
We formed our own convoy and I must say at this time we didn't care
if the Greek Cypriots shot at us or not. But we eventually made it
unharmed to the Hilton Hotel. Later, the United Nations took out the
rest of the people trapped in the Ledra.
A big convoy was forming up at the Hilton to take people to safety
at one of the British bases. Holger put me in the convoy and said
goodby because he had to stay behind and report the story.
That was the hardest part of all.
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Kissinger-Wiretaps 240
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has
received no hard evidence establishing that Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger initiated wiretaps of 17 government officials and
newsmen in 1969-1971, a committee member says.
Kissinger was questioned by the committee for three hours Tuesday
in a closed meeting. Chairman J.W. Fulbright, D-Ark., said after the
session that any statement 9f his own conclusions would be premature.
However, Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., told newsmen the committee
has no firm evidence yet that Kissinger was responsble for the
wiretaps, which were used to seek the source of news leaks from the
National Security Council.
Kissinger requested the inquiry by the Senate panel after
publication of memoranda by late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
asserting that Kissinger requested wiretaps of certain individuals.
At his confirmation hearing last September, Kissinger denie that he
initiated the telephone surveillance, saying that his role was to
supply names of individuals with access to information of the type
leaked.
Javits predicted the committee's final report, after a thorough
investigation, will satisfy the public that ''Dr. Kissinger's
credibility remains untainted.''
Fulbright said the committee plans to complete its inquiry next
Tuesday with testimony of Gen. Alexander Haig Jr., Kissinger's former
deputy on the National Security Council staff and now White House
chief of staff.
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Mule 190
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lynn Wall says all he wants is his mule. But
authorities say Monopoly won't be sprung until somebody pays his feed
bill.
''Old Monopoly is worth $1,000,'' said Wall, 56, a retired San
Francisco cabbie now living in Virginia City, Nev. ''But I ain't
gonna pay that fine, even if it's a nickel.''
Monopoly, a specially trained show animal, was ''arrested'' July 5
while Wall was grazing the animal at 3 a.m. on the lawn at city hall.
'' . . . I didn't have no place to feed him, so we just walked over
to the mall,'' Wall explained. ''That's when all hell broke loose.''
Police asked Wall to remove the beast. When Wall told them he had
no place to take Monopoly, officers called the American Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The mule has been held ever since, with a $5 per day grain charge
accumulating on an original $25 fine for grazing an animal within the
city limits.
Wall said he refuses to pay the fines and charges ''as a matter of
principle.'' The ASPCA said it would not release the animal until it
is reimbursed for the grain.
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Blacks 320
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of blacks winning election to public
office has increased 61 per cent over the last four years, the
government says.
At the same time, blacks also registered gains in education, but
suffered a loss in their economic situation.
The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that a survey conducted with the
Joint Center of Political Studies showed 2,991 blacks holding public
office in 45 states and the District of Columbia as of last March.
This was an increase of 61 per cent over 1970.
In the bureau's annual report on the social and economic status of
America's blacks, gains in education were measured in a higher number
of blacks earning high school degrees and attending college.
Black college enrollment totaled 684,000 in 1973, representing a 31
per cent increase over 1970 and a 41 per cent gain over 1967, the
report said.
Seventy per cent of black men and 72 per cent of black women in the
20 to 24 age group were high school graduates last year, compared to
62 per cent and 67 per cent, respectively, three years earlier.
In the same age group, 85 per cent of white men and women had
finished high school in 1973, an increase of two per cent over three
years, the Census Bureau said.
The report also said blacks were best off economically in relation
to whites during 1969 and 1970 when their median income was 61 per
cent of the income of whites - a steady increase from 52 per cent in
1959.
However, the income ratio dropped since 1970 to 58 per cent last
year when black median family income totaled $7,269 compared to
$12,595 for whites.
Black unemployment in relation to whites increased since 1970 and
1971, when there were 18 unemployed blacks for every 10 whites out of
work.Last year there were 21 unemployed blacks for every 10
unemployed whites, the report added.
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Hunger Strike 140
MEXICO CITY (AP) - More than 100 young foreigners including 103
from the United States have ended their hunger strike in two Mexico
City jails after a two-week protest, prison officials say.
There was no immediate confirmation from the inmates, most of whom
were arrested at the Mexico City airport with drugs they were trying
to smuggle from so
th America to the United States.
The prisoners claimed that they were tortured by the Mexican police
and tricked into false confessions which they did not understand and
that the U.S. embassy neglected them. The Mexican government denied
the charges against it, and the embassy said it had been doing all it
could for them.
The group included 68 Americans, seven Canadians and a German at
the Lecumberri men's prison and 35 Americans, two Canadians and one
German at the Santa Marte women's prison.
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AAA Gas 170
WASHINGTON (AP) - A slight increase in the number of service
stations selling gasoline on weekends has been reported by the
American Automobile Association.
It said Tuesday that a spot check of 5,191 stations in every state
but Alaska showed 69 per cent of the stations are now selling gas
after 6 p.m. on Saturday and 61 per cent are open on Sunday.
A check last week showed 68 per cent open after 6 p.m. on Saturday
and 57 per cent open on Sunday.
AAA said the number of stations selling fuel on Sunday was a 440
per cent increase over five months ago, when only 11 per cent of the
stations were open.
The survey showed that 76 per cent of the stations continued to be
open for business after 6 p.m. weekdays, the same figure as one week
ago.
Price levels remained stable, the AAA AI!DS WITH REGULAR SELLING
FOR 5/8 3/4 CENTS A GALLON AND PREMIUM GOING FOR 3/4? CENTS A GALLON.
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Communists 80
MOSCOW (AP) - The central committee of the Soviet Communist party
held a plenary meeting today in preparation for the opening Thursday
of a regular meeting of the Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the
Soviet Union, Tass reported.
The official news agency said General Secretary Leonid I. Brehnev
made a speech at the meeting, and the committee discussed questions
to be taken up by the Supreme Soviet. The report said a resolution
was adopted, but no further information was given.
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Black Scout 270
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) - Spokesmen for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People say they will take legal action
against a rule of Mormon-sponsored Boy Scout troops that denied a
black youth a leadership post.
NAACP spokesmen Mike Clark and Glen Edwards told a news conference
on Tuesday that a permanent injunction would be sought against such
practices.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) sponsors
most of the Boy Scout troops in Utah.
A spokesman at Boy Scout national headquarters in New Brunswick,
N.J., said there would be no comment until discussions could be held
with church officials.
The issue came to light last week when Utah's black ombudsman, Don
L. Cope, said an unidentified 12-year-old black Scout was denied the
post of senior patrol leader because he was not a deacon's quorum
president in the Mormon church.
In the church, boys 12 and 13 years old become deacons, the first
office held by priesthood members. Nearly all Mormon men hold the
priesthood, but the church forbids it to blacks.
Church spokesmen acknowledged last week that ''one of the policies
of the church in regard to scouting is that the deacon's quorum
president also serves as senior patrol leader. No other member of the
Scout troop, whether he is a member of the church or not, holds that
position.''
Wendell J. Ashton, Mormon director of public communication, said
Boy Scout headquarters knew the church's position ''and has approved
that policy.''
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Oil Profits 350
NEW YORK (AP) - Several oil companies say rises in crude oil prices
on domestic and foreign markets helped to sharply boost their profits
during the second quarter of this year.
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, the nation's sixth largest oil firm,
reported on Tuesday that after-tax profits for the three months ended
last June 30 were 131 per cent more than theearnings in the same
period of 1973.
Shell Oil Co., seventh biggest, said its second-quarter earnings
rose 39 per cent. Cities Service Co., 14th in size, reported a 76 per
cent gain and Tenneco Inc., a conglomerate with significant oil
operations, said its net more than doubled.
For the latest quarter, Indiana Standard registered earnings of
$280 million on revenues of $2.47 billion. In the comparable period
last year, $121.3 million was earned on revenues of $1.53 billion.
Profits for the firm during the first six months of this year
totaled $499 million, compared to $242.5 million in 1973.
Shell earned $124.5 million in the latest quarter, compared with
$89.5 million in the like period a year earlier. First-half profits
of $246.4 million outdistanced the $169.8 million earned in the first
six months of last year.
Cities Service, which retails as Citgo, said second-quarter profits
this year totaled $53.8 million on revenues of $674.2 million. Last
year $30.5 million was earned on $464.1 million in revenues.
Half-year profits were $122.6 million for 1974 and $67.3 million
last year. But Citgo said its 1973 profits excluded an extraordinary
gain of $11.3 million realized from the sale of its agricultural
chemicals business.
Tenneco, based in Houston, reported second-quarter earnings of
$87.6 million on $1.2 billion in sales, compared to earnings of $42.5
million on sales of $93 million in the 1973 quarter.
And Ohio-based Marathon Oil Co. said during the second quarter this
year it earned $80.83 million. In the same period of 1973, Marathon
had $40.39 million in profits.
Marathon's six-month revenues of $1.56 billion this year took a 100
per cent jump over the $841 million reported in the first half of
1973.
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Military Procurement 280
WASHINGTON (AP) - A compromise has teen reached by Uenate and House
conferees for a $22.1 billion weapons procurement authorization bill
containing $1 billion for military assistance to South Vietnam.
The agreement announced Tuesdy will provide about $1 billion below
the total amount requested by the Nixon administration for arms
procurement in the fiscal year which began July 1.
Funds approved for military aid to South Vietnam were $600 million
less than the administration sought. Originally, the House voted
$1.126 billion for South Vietnam and the Senate authorized $900
million.
In reaching agreement after a month of conference meetings, House
conferees approved Senate provisions eliminating funds to start a
program for modifying commercial wide-bodied jet aircraft to form a
Civilian Reserve Air Fleet.
In a concession to the House, Senate conferees agreed to a
reduction of 2,800 personnel in the Air Force, compared with a 49,000
reduction in the 2,152,000 recommended by the Pentagon as the total
manpower for all services by July 1, 1975.
Conferees also agreed to a 32,327 cut in the 1,027,327 total
civilian payroll of the Defense Department by June 30, 1975.
In the final bill, which is subject to passage in the House and
Senate, an amendment was included for a reduction of 18,000 U.S.
support troops in Europewithin two years, and authorizing a
corresponding increase in combat personnel assignments.
A Senate provision was approved to reduce requested authorization
for the B1 bomber development from $449 million to $445 million, with
a restriction against starting spending on a fourth prototype
aircraft until the first has been flight-tested successfully.
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$ADV 26
ADV FRI PMS JULY 26
Radio-TV 400, 530
By JAY SHARBUTT
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - This September, Boston's WCVB-TV and five other New
England stations are inaugurating their own mini-network with WCVB's
live ''Good Morning'' show and giving it a five-day-a-week, 52-week
tryout.
The network, which links the Boston station to one outlet in Rhode
Island, three in Maine and one in Vermont, won't exactly alarm its
big brothers. But it isn't intended to do that, anyway.
It's only a means of offering New England housewives a live,
regional alternative to whatever syndicated or network shows or
reruns they now get from 9 to 10:30 a.m., says Robert Bennett, WCVB's
general manager.
If the show proves a hit on the mini-network, he adds, WCVB might
subsequently try out a regional sports program for the early evening
hours and occasional regional news specials after that.
Bennett, whose station is an ABC affiliate, says the morning show,
costing nearly $7,000 a week, originally was developed to both
provide live local programming and fill a mid-morning time hole
caused by the lack of network programming at that period from ABC.
The reason he proposed the six-station hookup, he says, ''is really
because we've had so much success so quickly with 'Good Morning' we
thought it might play just as well in other New England areas.
''Although we do it in Boston, it's very much New England in the
way it's done. And most of the people in this region kind of think of
Boston as their main metropolitan area.''
Co-hosted by John Willis and Janet Lanhart, the show offers
interviews with news figures, celebrities and authors, as well as
lessons in exe
cise, cooking and household repairs and medical
segments.
It also features pop music groups, Bennett says, at least one live
''remote'' per show from outside the studio and a ''Sidewalk
Frolics'' segment from the Boston Common every other week.
In this segment, he adds, amateur performers get to do their acts
live on TV, thus achieving fame lasting three minutes or so.
''In most cases they're bad, but it's funny,'' he laughed,
admitting that in the 1950s he was partly to blame for ''Rocket to
Stardom,'' a similar, much longer pre-dawn show that sort of
enthralled Los Angeles.
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He said ''Good Morning,'' on WCVB nine months, will debut on the
five other New England stations Sept. 2. It may someday even appear
in New York City on a network-owned station - he declined to say
which - if the station feels the show's ratings warrant a Fun City
tryout, he said.
''We're only at the talking stage with the station, but it's not an
independent, which might surprise some people there,'' he added.
Bennett said he hasn't seriously considered expanding the
mini-network, but it could be done if ''Good Morning'' proves a
regional success.
''While we're not trying to compete with any of the three
networks,'' he said, ''if there is a need and a void in live
programming that isn't being filled by somebody else, we're going to
be in the position - maybe - to do it better than anyone else.''
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Broadcast Ownership CORRECTION
WASHINGTON Broadcast Ownership, a053, to change radio stations to
television stations sub 1st graf:
WASHINGTON (AP) - A proposal to ban joint ownership of newspaper
and television stations in the same city will be considered by the
Federal Communications Commission in a three-day set of hearings
beginning today.
The FCC: 2nd graf
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Knight-Ridder 480
MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - The board of directors of Knight Newspapers Inc.
has unanimously approved a preliminary agreement to merge with Ridder
Publications Inc., a merger that would create the largest American
newspaper group in terms of circulation.
The new group would have full or part ownership of 35 newspapers
with a combined daily circulation of about 3.6 million.
Gannett Newspapers, with 54 newspapers and a circulation of 2.3
million, would remain the largest group in number of papers.
Knight Newspaper directors approved the preliminary merger
agreement after a meeting with Ridder Publications officers in Akron.
Announcement of the approval was made here. Ridder's director had
already approved the preliminary agreement.
Under terms of the previously announced agreement, each share of
Ridder common stock will be exchanged for six-tenths of a share of
Knight common stock.
The name of Knight Newspapers Inc., will be changed to
Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. The company will be based in Miami.
Shareholders of both companies must ratify the proposal. It is also
subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission, because
of broadcast properties owned by the two groups. The merger involves
divesting of certain broadcast properties.
Principal officers of Knight-Ridder will be: chairman and chief
executive, Lee Hills, now chief executive of Knight Newspapers;
vice-chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the operating
committee, Bernard H. Ridder Jr., president of Ridder; and president,
Alvah H. Chapman, Jr., now president of Knight.
Knight-Ridder would have a 15-member board of trustees, five of
whom would represent the Ridder interests. James L. Knight would be
chairman of the executive committee and John S. Knight would be
editorial chairman.
Knight Newspapers, with a combined daily circulation of about 2.4
million, includes:
The Philadelphia (Pa.) Inquirer and Daily News, the Detroit (Mich.)
Free Press, The Miami (Fla.) Herald, the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal,
the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer and News, the Boca Raton (Fla.) News,
the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger and Enquirer,
the Lexington (Ky.) Herald and Leader, the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and
News and the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat.
Ridder Publications, with a combined daily circulation of about 1.2
million, includes;
The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press and Dispatch, the San Jose
(Calif.) Mercury and News, the Wichita (Kan.) Eagle and Beacon, the
Long Beach (Calif.) Independent and Press-Telegram, the Pasadena
(Calif.) Star-News and the Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune.
Ridder also either owns or has a substantial interest in the
Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera, the Niles (Mich.) Star, the Duluth
(Minn.) News-Tribune and Herald, the New York Journal of Commerce,
the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald and the Aberdeen (S.D.) American-News.
In addition, Ridder has 49.5 per cent of the voting stock and 65
per cent of the nonvoting stock of the Seattle (Wash.) Times and its
subsidiary, the Walla Walla (Wash.) Union-Bulletin.
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Reinecke 490
By JANET STAIHAR
AssociatedPress Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - California Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke has admitted
discussing an ITT pledge of political money with former Atty. Gen.
John N. Mitchell in May 1971, but says he was poorly questioned and
under stress at a Senate probe of the financial promise.
Reinecke's attorney in his perjury trial, James E. Cox, hoped to
bolster the defense claims today by calling to the witness stand a
semanticist who analyzed the hearing transcript and a doctor who
examined Reinecke.
There was a chance, however, that U.S. District Judge Barrington
Parker might block the testimony. He expressed doubts Tuesday the two
witnesses were needed and said he would rule today on whether they
could be heard.
Edgar Gillenwaters, the head of the California Department of
Commerce in 1971 who appeared with Reinecke at the Senate hearing,
also is expected to testify today. The case may go to the jury late
this week.
Reinecke, 50, is charged with perjury for not telling the Senate
Judiciary Committee he talked to then Atty. Gen. Mitchell about the
ITT political pledge six weeks before the government's July 1971,
settlement of antitrust cases with International Telephone &
Telegraph Co.
Taking the stnd for the second straight day, Reinecke said Tuesday
he did not mention the telephone call because he thought he had only
been asked whether he met in person with Mitchell.
Previous testimony brought out that Reinecke had been flying all
night to get to the April 1972, hearing. The defense also has tried
to emphasize that Reinecke is a mechanical engineer - not a wordsmith
- and that he was overworked and suffers from asthma.
Reinecke denied Tuesday that he was trying to protect Mitchell on
the ITT financial pledge.
Reinecke also said that last July he was promised by Joseph J.
Connolly, then head of the Special Watergate Prosecutor's ITT
investigation, that if he maintained his credibility as a witness and
did not talk to the press or other prospective witnesses, he would
not be charged in the case.
Reinecke told the jury he first informed Mitchell in a May 1971,
telephone call that Sheraton Corp. had promised to underwrite the
1972 GOP convention with up to $400,000 if it were held in San Diego.
Sheraton is an ITT subsidiary.
''Mitchell said fine, keep up the good work,'' said Reinecke.
Mitchell testified before the Judiciary Committee that he did not
learn of the ITT commitment until after the antitrust settlement -
contrary to what Reinecke told the court.
Reinecke said in cross examination that he told Gillenwaters after
the judiciary hearing that ''it was amusing'' that the senators did
not ask him about the telephone call. ''It was kind of a humorous
thing. Of all the questions they asked, that was one area they didn't
get into,'' said Reinecke.
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Death Sentences 200
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The Seoul district criminal court
sentenced five civilians to death today for espionage on behalf of
North Korea and plotting an uprising against President Chung Hee
Park.
Three other civilians were sentenced to life imprisonment, and 24
were given terms ranging from one to 15 years.
A total of 19 persons now have been sentenced to death this month
for antigovernment activities, but five of the sentences were
commuted to life imprisonment.
The government charged today that the defendants were members of a
spy ring that had operated in Seoul and other cities since December
1962. It said the group received some 60 million won ($150,000) from
the Communists.
The court said the ring, in addition to spying, were assigned to
infiltrate political, intellectual and labor organizations to incite
unrest and confusion and to prepare them for an uprising against the
government at the ''decisive moment.''
The defendants included two university professors, one of whom was
sentenced to death; a veterinarian, two Protestant clergymen and a
bank employe.
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Hunger Strike CORRECTION
MEXICO CITY - Hunger Strike a064 to rephrase sub first graf:
MEXICO CITY (AP) - More than 100 young foreigners, most of them
from the United States, have ended their hunger strike in two Mexico
City jails after a two-week protest, prison officials say.
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Angola 120
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Rear Adm. Rosa Coutinho has been named
president of the new military government in Angola. He replaces Gen.
Silvino Silverio Marques, who was recalled to Lisbon after a week of
turmoil in the African colony in which at least 54 persons were
killed.
The ruling military group, the Armed Forces Movement, also
announced the expulsion from Angola of a leading disc jockey and
radio producer, Fernando Norberto de Castro. It said he broadcast
reports that were ''ideological aggressions contrary to the spirit of
the program ofthe Armed Forces Movement.
The government warned Tuesday that anyone in Angola who did not
cooperate with the Armed Forces Movement would be expelled.
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Oil 210
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Lawsuits in the the massive 1969 oil
spill in the Santa Barbara Channel have taken another step toward
conclusion.
The state, the city and county of Santa Barbara and the city of
Carpinteria agreed out of court Tuesday to accept a $9.7 million
settlement from four oil companies and a drilling firm.
Union Oil Co., Mobil Oil Co., Texaco Inc., Gulf Oil Co. and the
Peter Bawden Drilling Co. of Orange, Calif. as well as the federal
government originally had been sued for $500 million after a Union
oil well off the coast blew out Jan. 28, 1969. The result was a mass
of gooey oil which blackened beaches for miles, killed wildlife and
drew the nation's attention to the ecology movement.
Santa Barbara Mayor David Shiffman said it was ''an important day
for the city, for the state and perhaps for the whole world. This has
been a long, hard, uphill struggle, but we prevailed and were
convincing in that we had a point to make.''
The settlement means that Santa Barbara will receive $4 million,
the state $4.5 million, the county $775,000 and the city of
Carpinteria $200,000. Also included are payments already made
totaling $226,285 for damages incurred by wildlife and land.
The oil companies already have made payments totaling more than $6
million to various individuals and firms which i