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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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WASHINGTON Supreme Court Bjt Take 2: obtained. 230
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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read 1st graf:
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.
---
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.
MORE
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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.
The AP
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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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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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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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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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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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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 inal nomination in
Maine's northern 2nd District. He's begun what he and many others see
as an uphill struggle to unseat Republican incumbent William S.
Cohen, now in the public limelight as a member of the House Judiciary
Committee considering the impeachment of President Nixon.
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Cohen is a 33-year-old liberal Republican lawyer who won the
usually Democratic seat in 1972 after serving as mayor of Bangor.
Gartley entered politics aware that he was possibly vulnerable. He
was one of the dozen American POWs who came home from prisoner of war
camps early as part of Hanoi's occasional gestures of good will and
propaganda.
His white-haired mother, Minnie, made a dramatic journey to Hanoi
in September 1972, while the war was still on, with a group of
antiwar activists and the wife of another pilot, to bring Mark and
two other pilots home. This reporter traveled with them to cover the
release. Gartley has gained a few pounds since then, but in the time
this reporter spent with him at his campaign headquarters here,
Gartley was as cool and straightforward in his responses as he was on
his journey home from Hanoi.
Publicly in North Vietnam Gartley condemned the war, and he still
does. ''The Vietnam war was a military, economic and political
disaster,'' he said.
But he is less sure now of his decision to accept Hanoi's offer of
early release, an offer he knew many of his cellmates would have
rejected.
''It was the hardest decision I have ever made - to stay in prison
with the people you have served with, or to come home to the obvious
benefits,'' Gartley said. ''We had made contingency plans for
everything in prison, everything that was except for the possibility
of having your mother come over personally to pick you up.''
The journey home via Peking and Moscow made world headlines,
particularly when U.S. authorities tried to persuade the pilots to
choose the secrecy of a U.S. military plane to the press conference
route of commercial airlines.
Gartley and the others stood fast. ''We have a commitment to the
men we left behind,'' he said at the time. ''If we return publicly
the way we promised, then maybe more will come home soon.''
Gartley personally visited the families of the 50 men he had shared
cells with at different times in the Hanoi Hilton. Then when all the
POWs came home, Gartley visitd many of them, including his
''backseater'' on his F4, Willim Mayhew, who had parachuted to North
Vietnam with him.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Federal Aviation Agency said today that an
Argentine jet reported hijacked landed safely at Kennedy Airport and
apparently had not been commandeered.
The Boeing 707 landed at 9:22 a.m., an FAA spokesman said. It was
boarded by the FBI and other law enforcement agents.
The spokesman said there were no injuries and that all apeared
normal in the cockpit.
Asked whether Aerolineas Argentinas Flight 340 had been hijacked,
he said, ''We don't believe so at this time.''
Earlier, authorities said the pilot of the plane, carrying 80
persons, had told his company by radio that the four-engine jet was
commandeered some time after it left Rio de Janeiro on a flight that
began in Buenos Aires.
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By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A crowd of more than 150 persons lined up outside
the Supreme Court building today in anticipation of a possible ruling
in the historic case of President Nixon and the Watergate tapes.
A court spokesman said the Justices would convene on the bench at
11 a.m. EDT.
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''I'm sure there was some resentment of me, but they didn't show
it,'' Gartley said. The Defense Department didn't show any either. No
charges were brought against Gartley or any other of the pilots who
in areas of propaganda cooperated with Hanoi.
Would he have come out early again? ''I don't know,'' Gartley said.
''I'm not hedging, but it was a big thing leaving my buddies there.''
The issue of Gartley's Vietnam experience, or anything else about
the Vietnam war, has not come up so far in the young campaign.
Gartley's aides say there might be a ''whispering campaign'' if the
race becomes close, but other political observers doubt it.
''Mainers just don't like that kind of mudslinging,'' said the
Democratic Governor of Maine, Kenneth M. Curtis. ''Mark is a fine
young man, the best candidate to put against Cohen.''
Whatever may be dragging at his chances for success, Gartley feels
his opponent is similarly burdened.
''The worst thing to be in politics this year is an incumbent, a
Republican, and a lawyer. William Cohen is all three,'' Gartley said.
''There is a throw-them-all-out attitude this year that all
officeholders should listen to.''
To get the momentum goin, Gartley plans to shake 50,000 Maine
hands between now and election day, an escalation of his first
handshake target of 10,000. He bumped over remote Maine backwoods
roads in a '67 Dodge meeting voters at filling stations and barber
shops in the small rural towns.
''I came from small towns, they're the people I'm most comfortable
with,'' said Gartley who, in a race already labeled by wags ''the
battle of the pretty faces,'' has a boyish smile and smooth face
unmarked by four years of prison camp.
Political pros say that incumbent Cohen ''is the man people want to
meet'' because of his dynamism. Mark Gartley is pursuing the ''home
town boy'' approach.
''The last thing here is to be ostentatious because people in Maine
are proud and independent,'' Gartley said. ''If I was running in
California I might hire a plane and parachute down into a shopping
center. Up here, that kind of gimmickry is the worst thing to use.''
Gartley has a small staff of volunteers to help him, and has found
that the ''single most unfamiliar thing to me is raising money.'' He
ran the primary race on a shoestring. The state Democratic committee
told him he needed a street-front campaign headquarters and $15,000.
He took an upstairs room, spent $3,500 and won.
''But I know I'll need $150,000 for the main race,'' he said.
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Editors: Please note a100, Supreme Court lead, which says that the
justices will convene at 11 a.m. EDT.
The AP
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Adv PMs Fri July 26
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Gartley's political message is vaguely populist - more political
power for the states, greater public voice in legislation. ''I don't
tell them I can answer all the problems of inflation and other
issues, but I know that anything is better than inaction. I don't
make promises I can't keep.''
Gartley's politicking has already cost him the ''close
relationship'' he had with an Atlanta girl he met while flying
commercially for Eastern Air Lines after he left the Navy in 1973.
''I'm not against marriage,'' the handsome bachelor says, ''but
right now there is not the time.''
His mother, who watched Mark grow up in Maine, then graduate from
Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, with a BS in physics; who agonized over his
incarceration in Hanoi and finally flew into the enemy capital to
bring him home, told this reporter she was concerned about her son
entering politics.
''I told him, 'You must have a real driving reason to do this,
Mark. The political race is never over.' '' Mrs. Gartley said. ''Mark
replied, 'I can't think of anything more important than drawing up a
bill that would be important for this country, and implementing
it.' ''
Gartley says he wants to win, but he would be satisfied if he
stirred the public into getting truly interested in politics. ''I
would love to see a groundswell of popular demand. The people are
angry today, but they are not saying, 'I'm gonna get mad and do
something about it.' They say 'I'm getting mad and to hell with
it.' ''
Gartley said that if he loses the congressional race, he will stay
in Maine and run for another office.
''Before I was shot down in 1968, I was looking ahead to a lifetime
with the Navy. I loved it. But in those years in prison camp, my mind
burst out of the narrow confines of the military. If I hadn't been
shot down, I would never have known what America truly stood for.''
There is one final irony. Years after Gartley's plane was shot
down, he learned it was his ''wingman,'' an accompanying U.S.
fighter, that accidentally blasted his plane from the sky.
''When I came home I looked that pilot up in San Diego. His
panic-fired missile changed my life in more ways than one.''
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TEXT ADVISORY
We plan o carry a text if the Supreme Court rules today in the
tapes case. At this point we have no idea when a text might be
available or how long it might be. We will keep you advised.
The AP
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Turkey-Greece 250
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Premier Bulent Ecevit sent a message of
congratulations today to Constantine Caramanlis who was called back
as Greek premier after 11 years in self-imposed exile.
Ecevit did not disclose the content of his message but told newsmen
he considers Caramanlis ''an experienced statesman who had shown the
value he places on Turkish-Greece friendship during his previous
service.''
Ecevit reminded newsmen that when Turkey launched its military
operation on Cyprus Saturday he had said it could open the way for a
return to democracy in Greece and Cyprus.
He said the changes in the two countries had developed ''just as I
expected . . . Turkey's peace and freedom operation was bound to
bring peace and freedom to Cyprus and Greece.''
''Now I am happy to see signs of realizing this hope,'' he said.
''I also hope that progress of Greeks, Cypriots and Turks in
democracy will make it easier to establish closer friendship and
cooperation since we shall all be speaking the same 0olitical
language.''
In his only reference to the military situation in Cyprus, Ecevit
claimed that Turkish troops had gained control of Nicosia airport.
Reports from the island had said the airport was in the hands of U.N.
troops.
Deputy Premier Necmettin Erbakan backed off a statement he made
Tuesday that Turkey would seek to settle the Cyprus crisis by
partitioning the island, part going to Turkey and part to Greece.
''I was misunderstood,'' he said.
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MADRID, Spain (AP) - Gen. Francisco Franco, hospitalized since July
9 with a blood clot and internal bleeding, ''is fully recovered'' and
is eager to go on vacation, doctors reported today.
The 81-year-old Spanish leader was hospitalized two weeks ago after
he was stricken with thrombophlebitis. His condition was complicated
last Friday with intestinal bleeding.
Doctors said today that Franco ''does not need our care any longer.
He can go anywhere he wants with every guarantee.''
Sources close to Franco said he may begin a two-month vacation next
weekend with a visit to his native Galicia in northwestern Spain.
During his illness, Franco temporarily transfered power to his
designated successor, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon.
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Clerides 230
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides said today
he has had no contacts with ousted President Makarios since taking
office Tuesday, Cyprus radio reported.
In a news conference reported in a radio broadcast monitored here
Clerides said the question of Archbishop Makarios' return ''is a
question for the people of Cyprus.''
Clerides said this question is not for him to decide. His job is to
avoid all future bloodshed and rebuild the nation. ''Turks and Greeks
must coexist in the Cyprus nation without fighting,'' he said.
He said he talked with Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash and
that Denktash expressed the intention to respect the cease-fire in
Cyprus announced for Monday.
But he said that some Turkish forces have taken new positions since
the cease-fire.
''This has created a dangerous situation. It will be impossible to
maintain the cease-fire if Turks move from their post,'' Clerides was
quoted as telling local and foreign journalists.
Clerides replaced former guerrilla leader Nicos Samps
0h lpresident Tuesday, saying he was serving temporarily.
Sampson, backed by the Greek-officered national guard, ousted
Makarios in a coup July 15 which led last Saturday to a Turkish
invasion.
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Simon 230
PARIS (AP) - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon said
today he disagrees with pessimists who foresee instability in world
monetary markets because of a shifting of funds by Middle East oil
producing nations.
''These people are conservative, responsible investors,'' Simon
told a news conference. ''I am not suggesting that everything is
going to be rosy, but I am not suggesting that there will be the dark
clouds that some have seen.''
Simon said that a ''a healthy, stable world financial condition is
in the interests of both producing and consuming nations.''
The secretary stopped in Paris for talks with French Finance
Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade on Tuesday evening following a tour of
the Middle East. After a call today on Emile van Lennep,
secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, he was flying to London for talks with Denis Healy,
chancellor of the exchequer.
Simon predicted that prices would be lower for oil delivered in the
fourth quarter of 1974. He said that consumption has been cut back so
that there is now a surplus production of 1 1/2 to 2 million barrels a
day and that storage facilities are being overtaxed. He said the
reduction should bring the price significantly below the present
levels but certainly would not go back to the prices of two years
ago.
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By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Between 300 and 400 persons gathered outside the
Supreme Court building today in hopes of being admitted to view a
possible ruling in the historic case of President Nixon and the
Watergate tapes.
The court has about 300 seats for spectators.
The possible decision also attracted two demonstrators, one in a
Nixon mask and the other wearing a mask of Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger.
Supreme Court police refused to allow the two men, who identified
themselves as Sid Essen and Bob Maslow, both of suburban Maryland,
to demonstrate in front of the building.
They then walked across the street to the sidewalk in front of the
Capitol and posed with a homemade banner quoting from the Watergate
tapes.
The line of spectators began forming around 6:20 a.m. By 10 a.m.,
one hour before the judges were scheduled to convene on the bench,
the line stretched down the Supreme Court steps and around the corner
of the block.
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Oil Profits CORRECTION
NEW YORK Oil Profits, a068, sub last two grafs to change earnings
from second quarter to first half and fix percentage: quarter.
And Ohio-based Marathon Oil Co. said during the first half 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 an 84
per cent jump over the $841 million reported in the first half of
1973.
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GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - The Cyprus peace talks between Britain,
Greece and Turkey have been delayed at the request of Greece to
enable the new government to select members of its delegation, a
British government spokesman said today.
The conference was to have begun today to discuss the future of
Cyprus where a coup led by Greek officers ousted Archbishop Makarios
and prompted the invasion of the island by Turkish troops.
The Greek government is being reorganized under Premier Constantine
Caramanlis after the resignation on Tuesday of the military-backed
regime of Adamantios Androutsopoulous.
Britain, Greece and Turkey are signators of a 1959 treaty which in
1960 established Cyprus as a republic. Under the treaty all three
nations are obligated to ensure the Mediterranean island's
independence.
The United States will be represented by Wiliam B. Buffum,
assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs,
but it was still unclear whether he would be a full participant or
just an observer.
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By JOSH FITZHUGH
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Citicorp's controversial floating-rate notes, which
went on sale today, were designed to attract the small investor with
high yields and relatively great security.
And, in, 2nd graf
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U.S.-Greece 160
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today
the United States ''welcomes the return of civilian government'' in
Greece and Cyprus.
He made the remark to reporters after a two-hour breakfast meeting
to brief members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
developments in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey.
Kissinger said that the United States ''expects to have close and
friendly relationships with the new government in Greece which is
composed of friends of ours.''
Chairman J.W. Fulbright, D-Ark., said after the meeting that ''on
the whole the situation is developing satisfactorily with the promise
of avoiding real conflict.''
Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., said that although many problems
remain, ''on balance I would say the secretary was encouraged up to
now that the developments have been constructive.''
Humphrey said the questions remaining are the relationships that de
velop between Greece and Turkey and how many Turkish troops will be
left on Cyprus.
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By the Associated Press
Constantine Caramanlis took office as premier of Greece today after
the Cyprus crisis toppled the country's seven-year-old military
dictatorship.
Early congratulations came from Turkey where Premier Bulent Ecevit
described Caramanlis as ''an experienced statesman who had shown the
value he places on Turkish-Greek friendship during his previous
service.''
Turkey's invasion of Cyprus on Saturday, following a coup by the
Greek-led national guard, brought on the fall of the Greek government
and recall of Caramanlis from 11 years of self-imposed exile. He
replaced resigned Premier Adamantios Androutsopoulos.
On Cyprus, newly named President Glafcos Clerides said the return
of President Makarios, ousted in the now collapsed coup, ''is a
question for the people of Cyprus.'' Makarios said in New York he
expected to return to the presidency in a few weeks, but Clerides, a
Makarios supporter, said he had not been in touch with the
archbishop.
He said his job is not to decide about the return of Makarios, but
to avoid bloodshed and rebuild the nation. He declared, ''Turks and
Greeks must coexist in the Cyprus nation without fighting.''
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URGENT
McClure-Nixon
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. James McClure of Idaho, a conservative
Republican, today questioned President Nixon's ability to govern
in the atmosphere of ''impeachment politics.''
In a statement prepared for a news conference, McClure criticized
the President's signature of a controversial legal services bill
opposed by conservative lawmakers.
McClure said differing commitments on the bill were given by
different members of the White House staff. ''It must bring his
ability to govern effectively and to lead at all into sharp
question,'' he said.
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McClure-Nixon ADD
WASHINGTON McClure-Nixon a115 add: he said.
A portion of McClure's statement was read to a newsman by a
McClure aide, who said the statement fell short of calling for
Nixon's impeachment or resignation.
Elected to the Senate two years ago after service in the House,
McClure is considered strongly conservative and has backed the
President on most major issues.
McClure's statement charges that Nixon's decision to sign the legal
services bill results from commitments by his staff to liberal
senators at a time when the President himself told conservatives
he had made no such commitment.
McClure's aide said that presidential chief of staff Alexander
M. Haig Jr. had promised Sens. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., and
Robert Taft Jr., R-Ohio, Nixon would sign the bill.
At the same time, the aide said, the President told Sen. Carl T.
Curtis, R-Neb., that no commitment had been made.
The aide said McClure feels Nixon's decision to sign the measure
represents an abandonment of promises made to the American
people in the 1968 and 1972 campaigns.
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Supreme Court 3rd Lead 100
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and a deputy,
Philip A. Lacovara, arrived at the Supreme Court today, strengthening
speculation that the court would rule in the historic case of
President Nixon and the Watergate tapes.
Jaworski and Lacovara arrived about 20 minutes before the justices
convened.
There was still no official word from the court on the reason
for today's session.
Between 300 and 400 persons gathered outside the court today in hopes
of being admitted to view a possible decision in the tapes case.
The court has, etc. 2nd graf a109
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UNDATED Greek-Cyprus Rdp Bjt Lead a114, add: fighting.''
In Washington Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today the
United States ''welcomes the return of civilian government'' in
Greece and Cyprus.
He said the United States ''expecs to have close and friendly
relationships with the new government in Greece which is composed of
friends of ours.''
News: 3rd graf a035.
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Budget Deficit 200
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government reported today that the deficit in
last year's budget totaled $3.5 billion, about what officials had
estimated last May.
The government report noted, however, that the size of the deficit
was smaller than had been anticipated when the budget was originally
drafted.
When President Nixon initially presented the budget last year, he
estimated that the deficit would run $12.7 billion.
Officials revised the estimate in February to $4.7 billion.
As things turned out, the government spent about as much money as
it had expected, but receipts for the fiscal year ended June 30 were
$8.8 billion above the original estimates.
The government said higher individual income taxes accounted for
the increased receipts.
The final budget figure came in a joint statement by Treasury
Secretary William E. Simon and director Roy L. Ash of the Office of
Management and Budget.
They said actual receipts for the years were $264.8 billion.
Spending amounted to $268.3 billion.
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By ALISON LERRICK
Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) - Today was a big day in the annals of fashion.
Yves Saint Laurent, the acknowledged prince of the haute couture,
showed his first collection in his brand-new palatial establishment
on the Avenue Marceau.
Escaping from a pouring rain, the audience was greeted by a
serenade of Gypsy violinists. You had the uncanny feeling of being
received by royalty upon stepping into the gilt and red brocade
salon, quite a step up from Saint Laurent's former gray velvet.
The interior designer responsible for the stately decor is Victor
H. Grandpierre, who already has to his credit the Dior salons.
Although Saint Laurent's new building is three times as big as its
predecessor, the seating space is unfortunately much smaller.
Fans, including Paloma Picasso, were standing two rows deep in the
back, and the general effect was one of a heap of people. Those
presented included Yul Brynner, night club star Zizi Jeanmaire,
Helene Rochas, Oscar de la Renta and Olympia de Rothschild. Catherine
Deneuve, who whisked out of the wings at the last moment, found no
room left in celebrity row, and was seated on a stool.
The collection was shown, as befits such a momentous occasion, in
religious silence, punctuated only by frenzied applause. The clothes
were pretty indeed, in the tradition of pure Saint Laurent elegance.
There were lots of man-tailored suits for all - a look that brings
out the best in the tall skinny girls this designer favors.
Checked and donegal tweed severe pants suits come with paisley
shirts that tie in a bow at the neck, little felt hats and red fox
boas. Another choice is flaring high-calf skirts and boots.
Some suits went under belted suede coats in rust, green or taupe.
There was also quite a few coachman's capes. But the trend, like at
most houses this season, was toward bigness.
Generous smock coats in cashmere and velvet fell in countless folds
from the yoke, with big shirt sleeves. They came with the big news
for all: the shirtdress is gone; vive la chemise.
After bringing back so many other looks in the past, Saint Laurent
now brings back that old favorite, the loose waistless chemise. His
come at all lengths in lightweight wool printed in a blur of neutral
flowers. The sleeves are loose and gathered into a cuff, and
sometimes the dresses are gathered into several tiers, making for a
wider shape.
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BULLETIN
Supreme Court 4th Lead
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 0 today that
President Nixon must surrender White House tapes and papers
wanted in connection with the Watergate cover-up trial.
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URGENT
Supreme Court ADD
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 4th Lead a121 add: trial.
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, a Nixon appointee, delivered the
opinion of the court.
''We conclude that when the ground for asserting privilege as to
subpoenaed materials sought for use in a criminal trial is based
only on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot
prevail over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the
fair administration of criminal justice,'' Burger said.
The opinion was the only one handed down by the court in a
hurriedly called meeting.
The court did not indicate when it will rule on a Detroit school
busing controversy, the only other case on which it has heard
arguments but not announced a decision.
---
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
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URGENT
Supreme Court ADD
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 4th Lead a122 add: decision.
The court ruled that the dispute between the President and Special
Prosecutor Leon Jaworski was subject to determination in the
courts, contrary to Nixon's assertion that it was not on grounds
it was a dispute within the executive branch.
''It is theoretically possible for the attorney general to amend
or revoke the regulation defining the special prosecutor's authority,''
Burger wrote. ''But he has not done so. So long as this regulation
remains in force the executive branch is bound by it.''
Justice William H. Rehnquist, a Nixon appointee and former assistant
attorney general under John N. Mitchell did not participate in the
case.
Mitchell is one of the defendants in the Watergate cover-up
trial scheduled for this fall, Jaworski wants the tapes as
evidence in that trial.
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URGENT
Supreme Court ADD
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 4th Lead a123 add: trial.
The Supreme Court also ruled that:
-The material sought by Jaworski satisfied a federal court rule
that subpoenaed material be useful and relevant as evidence in the
trial for which it is sought.
-The doctrine of separation of powers and the need for
confidentiality of high-level communications within the executive
branch does not mean that the President has an absolute
privilege to withhold material from the courts under all
circumstances.
-In a case such as the cover-up trial in which the claim of
confidentiality is not based on grounds of military or diplomatic
secrecy, the President's assertion of privilege must yield to the
need for the evidence.
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URGENT
Supreme Court ADD
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 4th Lead a124 add: evidence.
The Supreme Court upheld U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica's
finding that ''the judiciary, not the President, was the final
arbiter of a claim of executive privilege.''
The Supreme Court declined to rule on an additional question
raised by the President, whether the Watergate grand jury
exceeded its authority in naming him as an unindicted
co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up. The court said it had
''improvidently granted'' the President's petition that it decide
this issue, meaning it made a mistake in hearing arguments on the
question in the first place.
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URGENT
Supreme Court ADD
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 4th Lead a125 add: place.
RThe court held that Sirica's order was suject to appeal, although
normally in such cases an appeal is not in order until the person
to whom the subpoena has been addressed has declined to comply with
it and has been cited for contempt.
''The issue whether a President can be cited for contempt could
itself engender protracted litigation and would further delay
both review on the merits of his claim of privilege and the ultimate
termination of the underlying criminal action for which his evidence
is sought,'' said Burger.
More
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URGENT
Supreme Court ADD
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 4th Lead a126 add: Burger.
The Chief Justice read the opinion in full from the bench in a
steady, unemotional voice.
Normally only a summary of an opinion is read, but a source close
to the justices said Justice William O. Douglas insisted that this
opinion be read in full.
A line of spectators began forming around 6:20 a.m., hoping for
admission to the session. By 10 a.m., an hour before the justices
were scheduled to convene on the bench, the line stretched down the
Supreme Court steps and around the corner of the block. The court
has about 300 seats for spectators.
Jaworski and a deputy, Philip A. Lacovara, arrived about 20 minutes
before the justices convened.
The Supreme Court, 13th graf 3rd lead which is 5th graf original,
a007.
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URGENT
Supreme Court SUB
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 4th Lead a121, updating sub 4th and 5th
grafs: burger said.
It was not immediately clear how the President would respond to the
court's ruling.
In arguments before the court, his lawyer, James D. St. Clair,
said the case was ''being submitted to this court for its
guidance and judgment with respect to the law.''
''The President, on the other hand, has his obligations under the
Constitution,'' St. Clair said.
President Nixon promised during a similar dispute with Jaworski's
predecessor, Archibald Cox, that he would comply with a
definitive ruling of the Supreme Court on whether he had to turn
over tapes sought by Cox.
That case never reached the Supreme Court, however, and Nixon and
other White House spokesmen have consistently refused to repeat that
pledge in the dispute with Jaworski.
At a news conference Monday night, St. Clair again declined under
repeated questioning to say whether Nixon would obey a Supreme
Court order in the case.
The 8-0 ruling appeared to be about as strong a statement as the
court could have made on the subject.
After delivering the opinion, the court recessed until 10 a.m. on
Thursday.
Michael Rodak Jr., the clerk of the court, said a decision was
expected at that time on an appeal from a lower court order
calling for busing of pupils across school district lines for
purposes of racial integration in the Detroit area.
The court ruled, etc. 6th graf a121-122-123
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Kerner Lead Precede 4th Item a021 Washington Briefs No Pickup 110
CHICAGO (AP) - Federal Judge Otto Kerner, former governor of
Illinois due to begin serving a prison term next week for bribery,
resigned today from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kerner, the first federal judge ever convicted of a felony,
informed court officials in Chicago that he has submitted his
resignation to Chief Justice Warren Burger of the U. S. Supreme
Court.
Congressmen have recently called on Kerner to resign his
$42,500-a-year judicial seat or face impeachment.
Kerner is scheduled to surrender Monday to begin serving a
three-year prison term in Lexington, Ky., for his conviction in
connection with an Illinois race track stock scandal.
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Death Penalty 190
BREWTON, Ala. (AP) - A state judge today upheld the
constitutionality of an Alabama law which provides the death penalty
for persons convicted of firt-degree murder while serving a life
term.
Circuit Judge Douglas S. Webb denied a motion to throw out an
indictment aganstan inmate of Fountain Correctional Center accused
of killing a prison guard in an uprising last January.
Webb had heRD ARGUMENTS ON QHE MOTION BY Morris Daes, a Montgomery
civil rights attorney, last week.
The case involved a murder charge against Johnny Harris, 28, who is
charged with the fatal stabbing of guard Luell Barrow. Harris was
serving a life sentence.
''After careful study at this particular moment in the life of this
nation, I cannot find in any decision of our nation's Supreme Court
anything to lead this court to the belief that mandatory death
statutes such as Alabama's Title 14, Section 319, are
unconstitutional,'' Webb said in his written decision.
''For the reason set out herein, the motion to quash the indictment
is overruled.''
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URGENT
Greek a086 Lead 220
By PHILIP DOPOULOS
Associated Press Writer
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Premier Constantine Caramanlis today swore in
a national unity government of veteran politicians and economists.
Caramanlis, the 67-year-old statesman who returned from exile in
Paris to assume the premiership, named George Mavros, a leading
center-right politician, as deputy premier and foreign inister.
A government statement said Mavros was to leave Thursday for Geneva
to head the Greek delegation to the Cyprus peace conference as the
new Athens regime moved to calm relations with Turkey. Relations
between the two NATO countries have been tense since the overthrow of
Cyprus President Makarios and the subsequent Turkish invasion of the
island republic.
In London, King Constantine, who went into exile from Greece after
a 1967 military coup, said he hoped to return to Athens soon. He
expressed ''deep satisfaction'' in the fall of the Athens junta, but
gave no indication when he might return to Greece.
The new cabinet represented a cross-section of Greek politicians
and economists, most of whom for years have been overshadowned by the
country's military rulers.
In addition to extricating Greece from the Cyprus crisis, the
government will be faced with mounting economic problems. The ousted
military government had shown an inability to put a handle on
inflation, demonstrated by a 31 per cent increase in prices last
year.
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Urgent
Hijack 30
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - An Avianca Airlines jetliner with 67
passengers aboard was hijacked today while on a domestic flight in
northwestern Colombia, the government said.
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Greek lead Add 290
ATHENS Greek Lead a131 add: year.
Reliable sources said Caramanlis agreed to end his 11 years of
self-imposed exile and head the national unity government only after
receiving assurances that the military leaders would return to thei
BUST IT
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URGENT
Supreme Court 5th Lead
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 0 today that President
Nixon must surrender White House tapes and papers sought by
Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski as evidence in the Watergate
cover-up trial.
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, a Nixon appointee, delivered the
ruling.
''We conclude that when the ground for asserting privilege as to
subpoenaed materials sought for use in a criminal trial is based
only on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot
prevail over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the
fair administration of criminal justice,'' Burger said.
Rep. Robert McClory of Illinois, a senior Republican member of
the House Judiciary Committee, said it would be ''disastrous'' for
Nixon if he failed to obey the Supreme Court order.
''If the President would defy the court the way he has defied the
committee I don't see how we could avoid articles of impeachment,''
McClory told newsmen.
McClory also said he thought the committee should hold up its
impeachment proceedings in order to get the tapes for its own
inquiry.
''This clearly is relevant information,'' McClory said. ''We have
subpoenaed it, we want it and to report articles to the floor
without it would be a disservice.''
It was not, etc. 4th graf a121-122-123128
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Greek lead Add 290
ATHENS Greek Lead a131 add: year.
Reliable sources said Caramanlis agreed to end his 11 years of
self-imposed exile and head the national unity government only after
receiving assurances that the military leaders would return to their
barracks and let him run things without the generals' interference.
The way was cleared for Caramanlis' return on Tuesday when
President Phaedon Gizikis announced the resignation of the military
backed regime headed by Premier Adamantios Androutsopoulos.
The strongman of the fallen military regime, Brig. Gen. Dimitrios
Ioannides, was reported transfered to the northeast part of the
country to assume a front line command along the Greek-Turkish
border, according to military sources.
The sources said Ioannides, the dreaded and mysterious chief of the
military police who toppled dictator George Papadopoulos in a
bloodless coup last November and ran the regime from behind the
scenes, had offered his resignation from the military, but was
refused.
Officials said a few of the ministries and undersecretary posts had
not yet been named. In addition to Mavros, the new cabinet included:
Xenophon Zolotas, economic coordination; Evangelos Averoff,
defense; Takis Lambrias, undersecretary for press and information;
John Pesmatzoglou, finance; Nicholas Louros, education; Solon Ghikas,
public rder; Constantine Papaconstantinou, justice; George Rallis,
interior; Constantine Tsatsos, culture and scienes, and Andras
Kokevis, social services.
In Washington, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said the
United States ''welcomes the retrn of civilian government'' in Greece
and that it ''expects to have close and friendly relationships'' with
the new government. Greece is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
Press 5th graf, 1st graf a091, deleting a086
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URGENT
Supreme Court ADD
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 4th Lead a121 et. seq. 8th add: convened.
Dealing with Nixon's argument that the tapes question was strictly a
dispute within the executive branch, Burger said the special
prosecutor had been given ''unique authority and tenure'' including
''explicit power to contest the invocation of executive privilege in
the process of seeking evidence deemed relevant . . .''
The court said the judicial power of the government granted in the
Constitution ''can no more be shared with the executive branch
than the chief executive, for example, can share with the
judiciary the veto power, or the Congress share with the judiciary
the power to override a presidential veto.''
On the question of executive privilege, Burger wrote that
''neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for
confidentiality of high-level communications . . . can sustain an
absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from
judicial process under all circumstances.''
''The impediment that an absolute unqualified privilege would place
in the way of the primary constitutional duty of the judicial
branch to do justice in criminal prosecutions would plainly conflict
with the function of the courts,'' said Burger.
He said that accepting such a claim of absolute privilege ''on no
more than a generalized claim of the public interest in
confidentiality of nonmilitary and nondiplomatic discussions would upset
the constitutional balance of 'a workable government' and gravely
impair the rule of the courts.''
The court directed that its order ''issue forthwith'' thus putting
into effect immediately the direction to the President to comply
with the subpoena.
The Supreme Court heard, etc. 13th graf 3rd lead as before.
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TEXT ADVISORY
The text of the Supreme Court decision in the tapes case runs about
8,000 words.
It will begin moving on the B wire and some regional circuits by 1
p.m. EDT.
It will move Dataspeed in unjustified form at 1:35 p.m. to papers
receiving Circuit FD5028, the network for papers receiving material
in one-column format. Visual numbers will start with TX01.
It will move in justified form at 2:35 p.m., starting as TXJ01, to
all Dataspeed points - those on the one-column circuit and those on
the two-thirds column circuit.
The AP
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URGENT
Supreme Court ADD 90
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 5th Lead a134 add: disservice.
However, Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., said the committee
will go ahead with its plans to debate and vote on articles of
impeachment without waiting for the tapes Nixon has been ordered to
surrender.
Rodino has been advised by staff experts who worked on other White
House tapes that it would take at least two months to produce
useable transcripts, even if the committee received the tapes
right away.
The committee has subpoenaed most of the same tapes covered by the
court order but Nixon has refused to comply with the subpoenas.
It was not, etc. 4th graf 4th lead as before.
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PARIS Fashion a120 Take Two: shape. 230
Silver fox is still all over the place for fall, and Saint Laurent
uses it with discretion for the occasional collar or boa. ''Oh it's
so chic,'' cried one spectator at the sight of his fox-boaed gray
knit cardigan over a soft black and white printed crepe de chine
shirtdress.
Black velvet is another thing that's come back with a vengeance. In
terms of both quantity and quality, Saint Laurent has certainly
outdone the competition.
He makes black velvet suits, black velvet dresses, black velvet
pants suits, coats and boleros, with or without embroidery, feathers
or fringe, in all shapes.
The closing series also included lots of black velvet, on the tops
of enormous 19th century ballgowns with full moire and taffeta
skirts. The waist is still not marked. The dresses fall straight to
the hip and puff out from there. Everyone seemed to be crazy about
the look.
Ungaro, who also showed today, has made a very soft and wearable
collection for fall. There are lots of big capes and his famous big
coats in wool, mohair and fleece. He uses quite a bit of leather, and
one of the most interesting coats is made of swirls of brown, mustard
and rust leather with a big fox collar.
His evening gowns too are mostly black. It looks as though women
who want a black dress won't have much trouble finding one this
season.
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ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) - Actress Susan Hayward has been released from a
hospital where her doctor said she underwent a brain biopsy last
week.
Dr. George Tindall, her physician, said today her condition was
good and he assumed she had returned to her Beverly Hills, Calif.,
home Tuesday night.
Tindall, a neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital, declined to
disclose the results of the biopsy. He said the report was
confidential between him and his patient.
Earlier, friends had said Miss Hayward had entered the hospital
July 11 for treatment of a brain tumor. She is the widow of a
Georgian, Eaton Chalkley.
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Supreme Court INSERT
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 5th Lead A134-138 et. seq.,
explaining effect of court statement on grand jury's action insert
after 29th graf, which is last graf a125: place.
By declining to rule on the question, the court let stand the grand
jury's action in naming the President as an unindicted
coconspirator. It did not, however, say that the grand jry did or did
not have authority to do so.
The court held Sirica's etc. 30th graf
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Advances Moved This Cycle
N.Y. - Radio-TV, July 26, a070-71
N.Y. - Religion in the News, July 26, a080-81
N.Y. - Independents, July 26, a087-88-90
LOS ANGELES - Film, July 25, a093-94
LEWISTON, Maine - POW candidate, July 26, a097-98-101-103
The Business Mirror for Thursday will move today on some regional
wires and will move spot on the A.
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Hijack ADD 40
BOGOTA Hijack a132, add: said.
The Colombian Civil Aeronautics Board said two or more persons
hijacked the three-engine jet, which carries a crew of seven, on a
flight from Pereira to Medellin.
The pilot, Capt. Hernando Giraldo, advised the Pereira airport he
was diverting his plane to Cali in western Colombia at the order of
the hijackers, the CAB said.
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URGENT
Scotus Reaction 180
By CARL P. LEUBSORF
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican nominee
for president, said today that if President Nixon should refuse to
obey the Supreme Court decision to surrender Watergate tapes it
''would have a very bad effect on his chances of surviving
impeachment.''
''I see nothing for the President to do but to turn the tapes
over,'' Goldwater, of Arizona, told reporters in the wake of the
unanimous high court decision.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., who headed the Watergate probe of
scandal in the Nixon administration, called the ruling ''one of the
most healthy decisions it has ever made in the entire history of the
nation.
''It lays to rest the fallacious notion that the President of the
United States is above the Constitution and the laws,'' Ervin added.
Asked if he saw any basis for a presidential refusal to comply,
Ervin replied: ''I'm going to assume that the President will obey
the decision of the Supreme Court.''
''I certainly think the President should comply with it, and I
expect he will,'' Assistant Senate Republican Leader
Robert P. Griffin, R-Mich., told reporters.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said: ''I would expect the
President, like any other citizen of the United States, to obey
the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.''
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Scotus Reaction ADD 130
WASHINGTON Scotus Reaction a144 add: United States.
Rep. Robert McClory of Illinois, a senior Republican on the House
Judiciary Committee, said: ''If the President would defy the court
the way he has defied the committee I don't see how he could avoid
articles of impeachment.''
McClory also said he thought the committee should hold up its
impeachment proceedings in order to get for its own inquiry the
tapes and papers involved in the Supreme Court decision. The court
ruled, 8 to 0, that Nixon must surrender them to Special
Prosecutor Leon Jaworski as evidence in the Watergate cover-up
trial.
However, Chairman Peter W. Rodino, D-N.J., said the committee will
go ahead with its plans to debate and vote on articles of
impeachment without waiting for the tapes Nixon has been ordered
to surrender.
Rodino has been advised by staff experts who worked on other White
House tapes that it would take at least two months to produce
useable transcripts, even if the committee received the tapes
right away.
The committee has subpoenaed most of the same tapes covered by
the court order but Nixon has refused to comply with the subpoenas.
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Starting AMs Report, a202 Next
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AP NEWS DIGEST
Thursday AMs
These are the top stories in sight for AMs. The General Desk
Supervisor is Jim Willse. He may be reached at 212 262-6093 if you
have any urgent questions about the spot news report.
IMPEACHMENT-WATERGATE
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rules 8 to 0 that President Nixon
must turn over White House documents subpoenaed for the Watergate
cover-up trial. Developing. Wirephoto WX9, others upcoming.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - President Nixon's response is awaited to the
unanimous Supreme Court decision, which comes two days after Nixon's
special counsel refused to say whether the White House would honor
such an order. Developing. Wirephoto covering.
WASHINGTON - After weeks of receiving evidence behind closed doors,
the House Judiciary Committee prepares to open in full view of the
American people its historic debate on whether to recommend the
impeachment of President Nixon. Developing, early NL, debate begins
at 7:30 p.m. EDT, Wirephoto staffing.
WASHINGTON - The crowd began gathering early in the morning outside
the Supreme Court, hopeful of becoming witnesses to a historic
decision. They were not disappointed. New, color separate, will
stand.
INTERNATIONAL
UNDATED - Representatives of Greece, Turkey and Britain prepare to
meet in Geneva to resolve the Cyprus crisis. Cyprus roundup,
developing. Wirephoto covering.
ATHENS, Greece - Newly named Premier Constantine Caramanlis swears
in a national unity government of veteran politicians and economists.
Developing.
STRIP MINING
WASHINGTON - The House nears a vote on a strip mining bill designed
to preserve the landscape. Developing, late afternoon vote expected.
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Supreme Court Insert
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 5th Lead a134, insert after 3rd graf:
Burger said.
At the Western White House in San Clemente, President Nixon's press
secretary, Ronald L. Ziegler, said he would not comment immediately
on the decision.
Rep. Robert, 4th graf
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Jet a099 2nd Lead No Pickup 160
NEW YORK (AP) - A hijack scare involving an Aerolineas Argentinas
jet proved unfounded today and the pilot and an airline official
later explained it was all due to ''one big misunderstanding.''
The hijack alert went out shortly after 8 a.m. for Flight 340,
which originated in Buenos Aires and stopped in Sao Paulo and Rio de
Janeiro.
When the Boeing 707 jet carrying 67 passengers and a crew of 13
landed at Kennedy Airport at 9:22 a.m., it was directed to a remote
runway and surrounded by law enforcement officers.
But everything was normal aboard the plane. The passengers and even
some stewardesses later said they were unaware of the alert.
Pilot Cesar Germano and airline representative Bernardo Bolatto
told a news conference later that it was all a misunderstanding. They
said a conversation with an air controller in Bermuda may have been
misunderstood.
The Federal Aviation Agency said it was investigating the incident.
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Reinecke Lead A074 300
By JANET STAIHAR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)-A federal judge today refused to permit a
semanticist and a medical expert on jet lag to testify for the
defense in the perjury trial of California Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke.
Defense attorney James E. Cox contends Reinecke was poorly
questioned and under stress when he testified before the Senate
Judciary Committee two years ago.
Cox said he wanted the semanticist to discuss the clarity of the
senators' questions to Reinecke, especially those asked by Sen. Hiram
Fong, R-Hawaii. The indictment which accuses Reinecke, a Republican,
of lying to the committee is based on Reinecke's replies to Fong's
questions.
In denying the request, U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker said,
''the questions put to the defendant by Sen. Fong are clear and
straight forward...''
Parker ruled that only when the jurors cannot understand the issues
without expert witnesses, should the court allow them.
Cox advised the court he intends to seek a writ to permit the
expert testimony. Parker's ruling came while the jury was not in the
courtroom.
The expert witnesses were identified as semanticist Patrick Hunt
and Dr. James Thompson, an internal medicine specialist in
California, whom the defense described as an expert on the effects of
air travel on the human body and mind.
Judge Parker acknowledge previous testimony that Reinecke does
suffer from asthma but he said ''there is nothing in the record to
show that the defendant suffered an asthma attack on April 19,
1972.'' That was the day of the Senate hearing.
Parker also acknowledged previous testimony from witnesses that
Reinecke was tired from flying all night from California to appear
before the hearing in Washington, D.C. Parker said that an appearance
before a Senate hearing ''is a very stressful situation.'' But he
said the jury can evaluate that without testimony from experts.
Reinecke, 50; 5th graf.
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URGENT
Scotus Reaction ADD 200
WASHINGTON Scotus Reaction a144-145 2nd add: subpoenas.
House Speaker Carl Albert, asked at a news conference whether the
court ruling is a definitive one, remarked, ''eight to nothing is
pretty unanimous to say the least.''
Rep. John B. Anderson of Illinois, chairman of the House Republican
Conference, said, ''I would have been extremely surprised if there
had been any other decision.''
Sen. Marlow W. Cook, R-Ky., called it ''a monumental decision
relevant to the right to secure evidence in criminal prosecutions.''
As for a possible presidential refusal to comply, Cook said: ''I
think it would be unfortunate . . .''
Sen. James B. Allen, D-Ala., said, ''I think that every citizen
is subject to the law, and no one is above the law.''
Allen said he has felt for months ''it would have s.9n3eof
things if, months ago, he would have released everything.''
Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., said, ''The country's highest
court has spoken and no legal mumbo-jumbo can cloud the issue.
The President simply must comply with the Supreme Court's ruling.''
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URGENT
Supreme Court INSERT
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 5th Lead a135-138-203 to show that tapes
would not automatically go to committee, insert after 11th
graf, which last graf a138: subpoenas.
Jaworski has no authority to deliver the tapes to the committee
so that the committee would still have to seek the tapes on its
own, despite today's ruling.
It was not, etc., 12th graf
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URGENT
Scotus Reaction INSERT
WASHINGTON Scotus Reaction a144, to update, insert after 2nd graf:
decision.
At the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif., the
President's press secretary, Ronald L. Ziegler, said he would not
comment immediately on the court's decision.
Sen. Sam: 3rd graf
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Kerner Add 80
CHICAGO, Kerner a129 add: scandal.
Kerner, 64, has been on leave from the court since his indictment
in December 1971.
He was convicted by a federal jury in February 1973 of accepting
racing stock at bargain prices while he was governor from 1960 to
1968. He also was convicted of conspiracy, mail fraud, income tax
evasion and perjury before a federal grand jury.
He was hospitalized for several days in May for treatment of what
doctors said was a mild heart attack.
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Today-Hartz 300
NEW YORK (AP) - Jim Hartz, an NBC reporter and anchorman, was named
by NBC Wednesday as permanent cohost of the ''Today'' show, filling a
vacancy created in April by the death of Frank McGee.
Hartz, 34, a native of Tulsa, Okla., won the job after tryouts on
the show with such other, better-known NBC newsmen as White House
correspondent Tom Brokaw, Garrick Utley, Edwin Newman and Tom Snyder,
the last the host of NBC's ''Tomorrow'' show.
Hartz' salary was not made public by NBC.
Hartz, a former medical student at the University of Tulsa, began
his broadcasting career in 1962 with station KOTV in Tulsa. He joined
NBC News in 1964.
NBC said Hartz, who will start on ''Today'' next Monday, will be
required to read some commercials as do the show's other regulars -
Barbara Walters, Gene Shalit and Frank Blair.
The requirement, a holdover from the days the show was run by the
network's entertainment division, had been opposed by some newsmen
who were candidates for the job.
Network officials defend the practice, saying that without it,
advertisers might desert the show, as they did when John Chancellor
was its host. Chancellor refused to do commercials.
Hartz said the requirement caused no problem in his negotiations
for the show.
Hartz, whose broadcast style is similar to that of veteran NBC
newsman David Brinkley, currently anchorsboth the early evening and
late evening news shows on WNBC-TV in New York.
Wald said Hartz no longer will do WNBC's late evening program, but
will continue on the earlier show.
Hartz, who covered the Middle East war last year as well as other
assignments for the network, is married and the father of three
children.
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Exiles 360
LONDON (AP) - Exiled King Constantine of Greece, who left his
country after an unsuccessful attempt to oust the military regime in
1967, said Wednesday he hoped to return home soon now that the
seven-year-old military dictatorship has collapsed.
In a statement the king expressed ''deep satisfaction'' with the
installation of a civilian government in Athens. He did not indicate
when he might return to Greece but told newsmen, ''I hope to go
soon.''
Greek sources in London said the new government is favorable to the
monarchy and foresaw no constitutional problem over the king's
return, even though the military regime had abolished the monarchy on
June 1, l973.
However, the abolition was confirmed by a national referendu the
following month, and some action may be required to set aside that
vote.
Another prominent exile in London, former greek newspaper publisher
Helen Vlachos, refrained from announcing an immediate return home.
Asked if she would go back now that Constantine Caramanlis had
returned from exile to take over the premiership he held 11 years
ago, she replied:
''I consider that a possibility now that the situation has changed.
But I need time to take stock of what is actually happening.''
In Rome, Nicolas Pappas, the Greek navy captain who mutinied
against the military regime 14 months ago, said he and 25 of his
fellow officers living in exile in Italy will return to Greece.
''I don't know what sort of treatment we will get from the new
government, but it's my duty as a soldier to return now that the
political situation appears to be returning to normal democracy,''
Pappas said.
As captain of the destroyer Velos, he pulled out of a NATO exercise
to seek asylum in Italy in May, 1973.
In France exiled Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis chose immediate
return and left Paris on a direct flight to Athens.
Theodorakis, who wrote the music for the film ''Zorba the Greek,''
was exiled in 1970 after an international campaign for his release
from a Greek prison where he was reported seriously ill.
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Rpt last 2 grafs a204 New York Jet 2nd Lead:alert
Pilot Cesar Germano and airline representative Bernardo Bolatto
told a news conference later that it was all a misunderstanding. They
said a conversation with an air controller in Bermuda may have been
misunderstood.
The Federal Aviation Agency said it was investigating the incident.
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Supreme Court INSERT 70
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 5th lead a 134-203, updating, insert after
4th graf: decision.
Jaworski said he expects to get the subpoenaed material in time for
the cover-up trial, scheduled to start Sept. 9.
He said the tapes and papers need not be delivered all at once, but
could be turned over under a schedule to be worked out by the
courts.
Jaworski said he was specially pleased that the decision was
unanimous because ''it doesn't leave any doubt in anybody's mind as
to what the law is.''
Rep. Robert, etc. 5th graf
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Hartz Correction
NEW YORK Today-Hartz a210 10th graf to insert first name read: York.
Richard Wald, NBC president, said Hartz no longer will do WNBC's
late evening program, but will continue on the earlier show.
Hartz, who covered the Middle East war last year as well as other
assignments for the network, is married and the father of three
children.
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Rpt a205
Reinecke Lead A074 300
By JANET STAIHAR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)-A federal judge today refused to permit a
semanticist and a medical expert on jet lag to testify for the
defense in the perjury trial of California Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke.
Defense attorney James E. Cox contends Reinecke was poorly
questioned and under stress when he testified before the Senate
Judiciary Committee two years ago.
Cox said he wanted the semanticist to discuss the clarity of the
senators' questions to Reinecke, especially those asked by Sen. Hiram
Fong, R-Hawaii. The indictment which accuses Reinecke, a Republican,
of lying to the committee is based on Reinecke's replies to Fong's
questions.
In denying the request, U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker said,
''the questions put to the defendant by Sen. Fong are clear and
straight forward...''
Parker ruled that only when the jurors cannot understand the issues
without expert witnesses, should the court allow them.
Cox advised the court he intends to seek a writ to permit the
expert testimony. Parker's ruling came while the jury was not in the
courtroom.
The expert witnesses were identified as semanticist Patrick Hunt
and Dr. James Thompson, an internal medicine specialist in
California, whom the defense described as an expert on the effects of
air travel on the human body and mind.
Judge Parker acknowledge previous testimony that Reinecke does
suffer from asthma but he said ''there is nothing in the record to
show that the defendant suffered an asthma attack on April 19,
1972.'' That was the day of the Senate hearing.
Parker also acknowledged previous testimony from witnesses that
Reinecke was tired from flying all night from California to appear
before the hearing in Washington, D.C. Parker said that an appearance
before a Senate hearing ''is a very stressful situation.'' But he
said the jury can evaluate that without testimony from experts.
Reinecke, 50; 5th graf.
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Repeating A206 next to last graf
Allen said he has felt for months ''it would have solved a lot
of things if, months ago, he would have released
everything.''
End Repeat
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Disturbed Children Lead 380
By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)-The former director of a Florida home for mentally
disturbed children has denied sworn testimony that he approved
alleged torture and unacceptable medical experimentation on his
federally-funded students.
Testifying under oath Wednesday, the Rev. George E. von Hillsheimer
III offered explanations for $180,000 in allegedly questionable
Defense Department payments to his school for the care of children of
military personnel.
Von Hillsheimer told the Senate permanent investigations
subcommittee that he made no personal profit from the operation of
the Green Valley School in Orange City, Fla.
He described as ''blatantly false'' previous testimony that the
school's main course of treatment consists ofmassive doses of
vitamins, inhalations of carbon dioxide and injections based on the
theory that allergies are the primary cause of mental disorder.
''The primary treatment approach at Green Valley is a home-like
therapeutic milieu, a democratic peer community, work programs,
relief from the tension of unrealistic and formal demands and the use
of blunt, realistic, imaginative and moral confrontations with
children,'' he said.
He denied previous sworn testimony from the institution's chief
nurse that at least one student was injected with a serum made from
his own urine.
He said no student was ever struck with an electric cattle prod
although he said professionally acceptable electric shock therapy
was performed.
Von Hillsheimer was preceded to the witness table by Arthur P.
Mitchell Jr., an auditor for the General Accounting Office, who said
113 students, aged 8 to 24, were admitted to Green Valley under the
Defense Department's Civilian Health and Medical Program of the
Uniformed Service (all caps, CHAMPUS).
Mitchell said CHAMPUS paid Green Valley a total $1,253,000 between
1971 and 1973 of which more than $184,000 is questionable primarily
because of long and allegedly unauthorized absences by some students
from the school which continued to receive payments for them.
Von Hillsheimer did not immediately challenge the accuracy of the
figures although he offered various technical explanations to
justify payments.
Two former nurses at the school testified Tuesday.
Esther, 3rd graf a085
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U.S.-U.N. 90
WASHINGTON (AP)-Four U.S. Air Force C130 transport planes will fly
200 Finnish soldiers to Cyprus to reinforce United Nations troops
there, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
Spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim told a briefing the U.S. planes would
pick up the Finns in Helsinki and carry them to the British base of
Dhekelia on the south coast of Cyprus during the day.
The 200 Finns will augment some 2,000 U.N. troops already on the
island, Friedheim said.
He said he did not know whether any additional U.N. troops would be
flown there.
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Warren Eulogy 90
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief Justice Warren E. Burger paid tribute to
his predecessor, Earl Warren, at the opening of Wednesday's historic
session of the Supreme Court.
It was the first time the court had met since Warren's death on
July 9.
Burger saluted the late chief justice as ''our beloved colleague''
and said his career ''has few parallels in modern times.''
He said the court will hold memorial services for Warren at a later
date.
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Meningitis 200
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - The World Health Organization said
Wednesday a new vaccine tested for two years in Africa offers a
''high level of protection'' against the often fatal disease of
cerebrospinal meningitis.
Caused by a germ spread through the respiratory system like an
ordinary cold, the disease leads to inflammation of the outer skin of
the brain and the spinal cord. Death may come within hours after the
first symptoms appear.
WHO said the new vaccine, called polysaccharide and developed by
the Institute Merieux of France with the help of the Rockefeller
University, was tested in Egypt and the Sudan where epidemics of the
disease break out every spring.
The infection is prevalent in the African ''meningitis belt''
stretching from the Sudan to Senegal through the region south of the
Sahara. About one million cases and 150,000 deaths have been reported
from the area over the past 30 years.
WHO said more than 70,000 people were vaccinated in endemic and
epidemic areas of Egypt and the Sudan and not one was infected. WHO
said meningococcal germs are developing resistance to sulfonamide
drugs and outbreaks of the disease have now been reported from the
Middle East, Mongolia and Brazil.
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Impeachment Bjt NL 430, 2 Takes 690
By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief counsel John Doar worked with House
Judiciary Committee members Wednesday refining drafts of proposed
articles of impeachment against President Nixon as the committee
prepared for its historic debate on the issue.
After weeks of receiving evidence in closed session, the committee
was opening its meetings to nationwide radio and television for a
session set for 7:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday.
Hours before, the Supreme Court ruled President Nixon must turn
over tapes of 64 conversations subpoenaed as evidence in the
Watergate cover-up trial.
The decision brought an immediate call from Rep. Robert McClory, of
Illinois, a senior Republican on the committee, for a postponement of
the proceedings to give the panel time to renew its efforts to obtain
White House tapes.
''This clearly is relevant information,'' said McClory. ''We have
subpoenaed it, we want it and to report articles to the floor without
it would be a disservice.''
But committee chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., maintained that
the committee should proceed with its plans to report to the full
House by the end of this week or early next week regardless of what
the Court did or how the President responded to its ruling.
Each of the 21 Democrats and 17 Republicans had 15 minutes in the
initial phase of debate to give their views. Procedures called for
members to speak in order of seniority with Democrats and Republicans
alternating until all GOP members had spoken. The four junior
Democrats would be the final speakers.
Doar prepared with Rodino and other Democrats three articles of
impeachment charging the President with obstruction of justice in the
Watergate investigation, abuse of the powers of his office and
contempt of Congress for his refusal to obey committee subpoenas.
Meanwhile, committee member Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan, R-Md., who had
said he would vote for Nixon's impeachment, said he is
''reassessing'' his Maryland gubernatorial candidacy.
However, Hogan said ''it would not be accurate to say I am
considering withdrawing'' from the race.
In a television interview Tuesday night, Hogan said ''the phone's
been ringing off the hook with campaign workers abandoning ship and
saying they're going to work against me.'' But he said Wednesday
there have been no defections among his top aides and that he knew of
only one worker ''who called up in a rage.''
Hogan said he has told his top aides to poll GOP chairmen
throughout the state to gauge the effect of his announcement.
Hogan said Tuesday, ''I have come to the conclusion that Richard M.
Nixon has, beyond a reasonable doubt, committed impeachable
offenses.''
MORE
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Court Reaction Lead a144 190
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)-Three Senate conservatives, two Republicans and a
Democrat, said today that President Nixon risks removal from office
if he defies the Supreme Court ruling to surrender 64 Watergate
tapes.
Sens. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., James McClure, R-Idaho, and Russell
Long, D-La., all longtime Nixon supporters, took similar positions
in the wake of the unanimous high court ruling.
''If he refuses to turn them over,'' Goldwater told reporters, ''I
think it would have a very bad effect on his chances of surviving
impeachment.''
''If the President does not comply,'' Long said in a statement,
''it will hurt him very badly as Congress considers impeachment.''
''He is in bad shape now, and any refusal would put him in worse
shape,'' Long said.
McClure, at a news conference, said failure to comply ''would be a
very damaging thing for his prospects of remaining in office.''
''I see nothing for the President to do but to turn the tapes over,''
said Goldwater, the 1964 GOP presidential nominee and a major
spokesman for party conservatives.
At the Western: 3rd graf, previously inserted as a208.
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TEXT ADVISORY
The text of the Supreme Court decision in the tapes case runs 18
takes. The first 13 moved in unjustified form at 1:35 p.m. on
Dataspeed Circuit FD5028. The final five will move at 2:35 p.m. on
that circuit.
The full 18 takes will move in justified form on all Dataspeed
circuits starting at 2:37 p.m. EDT.
The AP
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Reinecke 2nd Lead A205 140
By JANET STAIHAR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - An official for the Republican National Committee
testified today at the perjury trial of California Lt. Gov. Ed
Reinecke that she gave the party's chairman a memorandum in early
July 1971 which discussed the ITT financial commitment to the 1972
Republican National Convention.
Josephine L. Good of Washington, the director of conventions for
the party, said she gave the document to Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., and
that normally she gave him several copies of memoranda.
She said she did not know if any of the copies were turned over to
then Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell. She said, however, that it was
conceivable that Dole may have sent one to Mitchell.
Reinecke, 50, is charged with perjury for not telling the Senate
Judiciary Committee he talked with Mitchell about the ITT pledge six
weeks before the government's out-of-court settlement with Internati
onal Telephone & Telegraph in late July of 1971.
Before Miss Good's testimony,the judge refused to permit a
semanticist and a medical expert on jet lag to testify for the
defense.
Defense attorney: 2nd graf A205
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Nixon a040 Lead 120
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - Presidential spokesmen had no immediate
comment today on the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision that President
Nixon must turn over 64 tapes of Watergate-related conversations.
Nixon apparently still planned to keep a scheduled meeting with
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development James T. Lynn on the
slumping housing industry. However, the White House canceled a
scheduled picture-taking session of Nixon with Lynn.
Reporters who were to go from the press headquarters in Laguna
Beach to the Western White House compound for the photo session and a
briefing afterward by Lynn were advised not to go.
They remained waiting some word from presidential spokesmen in the
press room at Laguna Beach.
Joining Nixon, 2nd graf
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-PM IN-
Urgent
Hijack a132 Lead -Precede Bogota- 100
CALI, Colombia (AP) - A young man surrendered to police today after
hijacking an Avianca jet with about 130 aboard on a domestic flight
in northwestern Colombia, authorities said.
The Colombian Civil Aeronautics Board said a man ''about 20''
hijacked the plane on a flight rom Pereira to Medellin, then ordered
the pilot to land at Cali in western Colombia.
On landing the passengers escaped through an emergency exit.
The hijacker surrendered to police after a brief exchange gunfire,
authorities said.
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WASHINGTON Take 2 Impeachment Bjt NL a221: offenses. 230
Another committe member, Rep. Joshua Eilberg, D-Pa., always
regarded as part of the pro-impeachment bloc also said publicly
Tuesday that he planned to support removal of Nixon from office.
If the committee approves articles of impeachment, the House would
debate them with a final vote expected the end of August.
Approval by a majority vote in the House would send the matter to
the Senate for trial where a two-thirds majority would be required
for conviction and removal from office.
At his news conference Tuesday, Hogan called the debate ''pro
forma'' and said ''every person on the committee, so far as I'm
concerned will have made up his mind'' before it begins.
He predicted that at least five committee Republicans would vote
for impeachment.
The other four considered likeliest to support impeachment were
Reps. William Cohen of Maine, Hamilton Fis Jr. of New York, M.
Caldwell Butler of Virginia and Tom Railsback of Illinois.
The Judiciary Committee was not a party to the case decided on
Wednesday by the Supreme Court.
The committee issued eight subpoenas between April 11 and June 24,
demanding tapes of 147 conversations it considered relevant to its
inquiry.
The President refused to comply with any of them except to release
on April 30, edited transcripts of 43 presidential conversations. But
the committee declared that the transcripts did not comply with its
subpoenas.
Several committeeRepublicans have advocated that in the event of a
Supreme Court ruling against the President in the Watergate tapes
case, the panel should renew its requests for tapes.
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Nixon Bjt NL 430
By FRANCES LEWINE
Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - President Nixon concentrated on
economic problems Wednesday morning and neither he nor his lawyer had
any immediate comment on the Supreme Court's ruling that Nixon must
turn over subpoenaed Watergate tapes.
The 8-0 court ruling was announced shortly after 8 a.m. California
time.
Approached by a reporter shortly after the announcement, Press
Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said, ''How the hell can I comment on a
one-sentence bulletin?''
Nixon has refused to produce the tapes of the 64 Watergate-related
conversations on the grounds of executive privilege. The tapes were
sought by special prosecutor Leon Jaworski in connection with
Watergate coverup trials.
In a similar dispute with Jaworski's predecessor, Archibald Cox,
Nixon promised that he would comply with a definitive Supreme Court
ruling. Cox was fired, however, and the issue never reached the high
court. The President and James D. St. Clair, his Watergate defense
lawyer, consistently have refused to say whether Nixon would obey a
Supreme Court order in the case at this time.
St. Clair, who has been in California since Sunday night, said at a
news conference in Laguna Beach on Monday that Nixon had made no
decision on whether he would comply with an adverse ruling of the
high court.
''I don't see how he can until he gets the decision, reads the
opinin and consults his counsel,'' St. Clair said.
At the news conference, St. Clair was asked if it would be legally
possible to have the President plead the Fifth Amendment, a defense
against self-incrimination, and withhold the tapes.
''I don't know whether it would be legally possible or not,'' St.
Clair replied. ''But I can assure you he will not plead the Fifth
Amendment.''
The Supreme Court ruling came as the House Judiciary Committee made
preparations for open, nationally broadcast deliberations on proposed
articles of impeachment against the President.
Ziegler said the President would not watch the proceedings on
television. When asked why not, the presidential spokesman replied,
''He simply doesn't plan to.''
Ziegler also said the impeachment proceedings would not affect
Nixon's day-to-day activities.
Nixon, who came to California 12 days ago, conferred Wednesday on
the nation's housing problems, meeting with Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development James Lynn, economic counselor Kenneth Rush and the
chairman of the economic council, Kenneth Cole.
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Strip Mining Bjt NL 420
By TOM RAUM
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House moved toward expected final passage
Wednesday of a bill to impose the first national environmental
controls on strip coal mining.
Sponsors of the bill claimed enough votes to pass and send it to
the Senate, which has already passed similar legislation.
The bill would establish a federal program to regulate strip mining
but would also authorize states and Indiana tribes, whose
reservations sit above substantial coal reserves in the West, to
establish their own enforcement programs.
It also would require all mined areas to be restored to their
''approximate original contours'' after mining.
Strip mining would be banned in national forests and certain other
federally owned areas under the bill, and special, stronger
standards would be imposed on strip mining in the mountains, where
the slopes are steeper than 20 degrees.
Unlike the Senate-passed bill, the House measure would not ban all
strip mining of federally owned coal underlying millions of acres of
prarie and grazing land in the West.
Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., floor manager for the bill, has
claimedit represents a true compromise between protecting the
environment and producing the nation's energy supplies.
But coal and electric industry forces claim it is too stringent and
will result in a substantial cut in national coal production.
The Interior Department has opposed the bill, agreeing with the
coal industry that it will cut coal production, but the White House
has not formally taken a position on the bill.
Environmentalists, meanwhile, claim the bill is too weak.
Rep. Ken Hechler, D-W.Va., says there is no environmentally sound
way to continue strip mining.
Pointing to the scarred mountainsides and polluted streams of his
own state, Hechler has repeatedly told the House the legislation will
result in the ''Appalachian-izing of the West,'' where the focus of
the coal industry appears to be shifting with the new emphasis on
strip mining as a relatively inexpensive way of extracting coal.
In strip mining, layers of top soil and rock, sometimes called
overburden, are stripped away to get at coal deposits lying near the
surface. Hechler and other environmentalists claim the nation should
concentrate its efforts on more deep mining instead, saying deep
coal reserves are eight times more plentiful than those which can be
strip mined.
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McClure-Nixon NL 300
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. James McClure of Idaho said Wednesday that
he and other Republican conservatives will demand President Nixon's
resignation if Nixon abandons his 1972 campaign pledges in exchange
for liberal support.
McClure told a news conference that Nixon's decision to sign a
controversial legal services bill, in the face of liberal pressure,
''must bring his ability to govern effectively, and to lead at all,
into sharp question.''
Asked if he was calling for Nixon's resignation, the Idaho senator
replied: ''I'm specifically not at this time. But that question has
to be in the minds of many people.''
He noted that Sen. James L. Buckley, Con-R-N.Y., warned in calling
for Nixon's resignation in March that one danger of the impeachment
situation was that Nixon might abandon his campaign pledges.
McClure said that seems to be happening.
If that pattern continues, he added, ''I think we have no
alternative but to ask for resignation.''
McClure charged that Nixon is signing the bill as a result of
pledges made by White House Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig Jr. to
Sens. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., and Robert Taft Jr., R-Ohio.
''As late as last Thursday,'' he added, ''the President was saying
that no commitment had been made to sign the bill.''
McClure said he referred to a meeting between Nixon, Sen. Carl T.
Curtis, R-Neb., and Rep. Lamar Baker, R-Tenn.
''Either the President deceived them, or the President himself was
deceived'' by commitments made without his permission by his staff,
McClure said.
''I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that the President
deliberately misled Sen. Curtis and Congressman Baker,'' he added.
In response to a question, McClure said he has heard rumors that
Haig threatened to resign if Nixon didn't sign the legal services
measure but doesn't know if they are true.
McClure said a decision to sign the legal services bill means
''commitments made by the White House staff to Senate liberals will
be honored above commitments made by the President himself to the
American people in two consecutive elections.''
''I resent this kind of impeachment politics,'' he said, ''and the
public should resent it.''
He said Nixon's election was due to his pledge to change the
nation's direction in domestic matters.
Elected to the Senate two years ago after service in the House,
McClure has been a strong supporter of President Nixon's programs,
both domestic and foreign.
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Hogan 320
By DAVID C. MARTIN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan, R-Md., said Wednesday he
is ''reassessing'' his Maryland gubernatorial candidacy in the wake
of his announcement that he will vote for the impeachment of
President Nixon.
However, the Maryland Republican told a reporter ''it would not be
accurate to say I am considering withdrawing'' from the race.
Hogan said he has directed his top campaign aides to poll local GOP
chairmen throughout the state to gauge the effect of his call Tuesday
for the President's impeachment. He added that his office staff has
begun counting the telegrams and telephone calls received since he
became the first member of the House Judiciary Committee to declare
his vote formally.
Hogan said in a television interview Tuesday night that ''the
phone's been ringing off the hook with campaign workers abandoning
ship and saying they're going to work against me.'' However, the
second term congressman told a reporter Wednesday morning that there
have been no defections among his key campaign aides and that he was
only aware of one volunteer worker who has ''called up in a rage.''
A preliminary count of telephone calls and telegrams showed 271
supporting his call for Nixon's removal from office and 215 opposing
it, according to Hogan.
But Hogan said he was not encouraged by the count since many of the
supporting calls probably came from Democrats who would not vote for
him in the general election while those opposing his stand were
probably loyal Republicans who would now vote against him in the
primary race against GOP national committeewoman Louise Gore.
Maryland's withdrawal deadline for candidates in the Sept. 10
primary is Friday night.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) - Turkey protested to the United States
on Wednesday that a pro-Greek demonstration outs de its U.N. mission
in New York violated ''the most elementary principles of law and of
hospitality due to a diplomatic mission.''
Turkish Ambassador Osman Olcay asked U.N. headquarters to circulate
the protest among member nations.
Olcay said all countries should be aware of ''this manifestation of
what capabilities for violence exist in Greek mobs, whose behavior
here in New York is just a vague reflection of what they are doing in
Cyprus.''
Olcay said more than 1,500 demonstrators massed outside his mission
on Monday. He claimed this was done in violation of U.S. federal law.
Olcay added that the demonstrators reached the main gate of the
mission, blocked traffic and ''tried unsuccessfully to break into the
office and threw objects at the building.''
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3,000-word range.
It will move on all Dataspeed circuits at 6:45 p.m. in unjustified
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The condensation will also move on the B wire and some regional
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon has sent a message to Constantine
Caramanlis, the new Greek prime minister congratulating him on his
return from 11 years of self-exile in Paris, officials said
Wednesday.
Simultaneously, the State Department in a one-sentence statement
welcomed Caramanlis' return to Athens and also announced the de facto
recognition of Glasfkos Clerides as head of state of Cyprus.
''We welcome the new government (in Greece) and look forward to
working with it bilaterally and in the NATO framework,'' press
officer Robert Anderson told a news conference.
Asked whether his statements represent a recognition of the new
Greek and Cyprus governments, Anderson replied that the question of
recognition ''does not arise'' in either case.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is expected to announce its
decision Thursday on a controversial plan to bus school pupils across
district lines in the Detroit area.
The case is the only one awaiting decision before the court winds
up its current term and adjourns until Oct. 7.
The case is being watched closely for its possible impact on the
future of school desegregation in northern cities.
The court recessed until 10 a.m. Thursday after Wednesday's ruling
that President Nixon must surrender material wanted as possible
evidence in the Watergate cover-up trial.
Michael Rodak Jr., clerk of the court, said a decision in the
Detroit case was expected.
The case could decide whether predominantly black city school
districts may bus children from white-dominated suburbs to achieve
better racial balance.
Michigan officials and officials of suburban school districts
around Detroit appealed a decision of the U.S. Circuit Court in
Cincinnati that the suburbs must be included in the busing plan in
order to desegregate Detroit city schools.
The Detroit schools are approximately 64 per cent black.
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By ALLAN JACKS
Associated Press Writer
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey welcomed the return of Constantine
Caramanlis as premier of Greece on Wednesday and Turkish leaders
expressed satisfaction with political developments both there and in
Cyprus.
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit sent a message of congratulations to
Caramanlis, called back to head a Greek government after 11 years in
self-imposed exile. Ecevit said he considered Caramanlis an
experienced statesman who had shown the value he places on
Turkish-Greek friendship during his previous service.
Ecevit did not mention the new Cypriot president, Glafcos Clerides,
by name, but reminded newsmen that when Turkey launched its invasion
of Cyprus on Saturday he had remarked that it could lead to a return
of democracy in both Greece and Cyprus.
''Now I am happy to see signs of realizing this hope,'' he said.
''I also hope that progress of Greeks, Cypriots and Turks in
democracy will make it easier to establish closer friendship and
cooperation since we will all be speaking the same political
language.''
With Caramanlis
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Mavros 30
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros said
Wednesday the new Greek government recognizes Archbishop Makarios as
the president and legal head of Cyprus.
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With Caramanlis and Clerides in the top positions in Athens and
Nicosia, even Deputy Premier Necmettin Erbakan appeared to back off
the hard line he had proposed for Turkish-Greek-British peace
negotiations in Geneva.
Tuesday Erbakan had called for partition of the island with one
part going to Turkey and another to Greece.
Asked again about this, he commented Wednesday: ''I was
misunderstood.''
Although partition was Turkey's goal for Cyprus prior to its
independence in 1960, no high Turkish official but Erbakan had raised
that possibility in the present crisis.
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Busing
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate indicated Wednesday it is ready to
accept compromise legislation limiting judges' authority to order
busing as a tool for school desegregation.
By a 55-42 vote the Senate defeated a motion to send an education
bill back to conference with instructions to accept tougher House
provisions.
The House version of the $25.2-billion bill would flatly
prohibit the busing of a pupil past the second-closest school to his
home.
The compromise version would waive that provision if farther busing
were needed to ensure the constitutional rights of minority children.
Another key element of dispute concerns a compromise provision that
would allow courts to reopen old busing cases - most of them in
the South - only if the health or education of pupils were
threatened by continued busing.
The House language would require reopening of all old busing
orders to bring them into compliance with the new law.
The House has insisted three times that its tougher antibusing
provisions be accepted.
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Nixon 2nd Lead A225 110
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - President Nixon went into marathon
conferenced with his chief Watergate defense attorney
today after learning of the Supreme Court's ruling that he
must surrender 64 Watergate tapes. A statement was promised for later
in the day.
Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Nixon and lawyer James
D. St. Clair were holding a series of conferences ''to review
the decision.''
Offering no immediate reaction to the high court's ruling,
Ziegler said: ''We will have a statement in the Laguna Beach
press center later today.''
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Mavros ADD 100
ATHENS Mavros a237 add: Cyprus.
Mavros spoke out in favor of Makarios shortly after he was sworn in
Wednesday as foreign minister and deputy premier in Premier
Constantine Caramanlis' national unity government.
''When Makarios will retrn, is another question. That's his
business,'' Mavros said.
He said Greece ''has accepted fully the United Nations Security
Council decision on Cyprus. One of the points of this resolution is a
call for the restoration of constitutional order. Since we accept
that, we therefore recognize President Makarios as the legal head of
Cyprus.''
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URGENT
Supreme Court INSERT
WASHINGTON Supreme Court 5th Lead A134-203, insert after 4th
graf: decision.
However, Ziegler said several hours later that Nixon and lawyer
James D. St. Clair were holding a series of conferences to
review the decision and promised a statement before the day
ended.
Jaworski said, etc 5th graf.
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Greek-Cyprus Roundup 2nd Lead 190
By The Associated Press
Constantine Caramanlis took over as premier of Greece today and his
foreign minister said the new civilian government recognizes
Archbishop Makariosas the president and legal head of Cyprus.
Makarios, ousted earlier this month in a coup by the Cypriot
national guard under the leadership of regular Greek army officers,
said in New York on Tuesday he expected to be back in the presidency
in a few weeks.
The new Greek foreign minister, George Mavros, said in Athens,
''When Makarios will return is another question. That's his
business.''
Mavros added that Greece ''has accepted fully the United Nations
Security Council decision on Cyprus.''
''One of the points of this resolution is a call for the
restoration of constitutional order, since we accept that, we
therefore recognize President Makarios as the legal head of Cyprus.''
Caramanlis, a former premier, came to power after the resignation of
Greece's seven-year-old military dictatorship, which had been accused
by some of supporting the coup on July 15 against .
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URGENT
Nixon Add 170
SAN CLEMENTE-Nixon 2nd Lead a240 add: today.''
The White House spokesman said Nixon was informed of the decision
at about 8:45 a.m. California time by his staff chief, Alexander
M. Haig Jr., in a telephone call to the President's study.
Ziegler said the clerk of the Supreme Court called St.
Clair's White House office about 40 minutes before the decision was
read from the bench to relay word a ruling would be forthcoming.
The press secretary said the clerk gave no hint of the content of
the 8-0 opinion.
Nixon and St. Clair, joined at times by Haig, began their meetings
in the President's ocean-side home at about 9:30 a.m. PDT. The full
opinion was sent to the Western White House via a telecopier system,
Ziegler said.
After being informed of the decision, Ziegler said, Nixon cancelled a
scheduled meeting with James T. Lynn, secretary of Housing and Urban
Development-the only item on his announced schedule for the day.
Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said the court's action would
not affect Nixon's plan to deliver a television-radio address
on the economy from Los Angeles Thursday.
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URGENT
Busing a239 Lead
WASHINGTON (AP)-The Senate approved compromise legislation Wednesday
that would limit judges' authority to order busing as a tool for
school desegregation.
A 81-15 vote sent the legislation, a $25.2-billion education bill, back
to the House.
The final Senate vote followed a 55-42 vote rejecting a motion to send
the entire package back to conference with instructions to accept the
tougher antibusing provisions written by the House.
The key provision voted by the House would flatly prohibit the busing
of a pupil past the second-closest school to his home.
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Editors
Please note number a242 was used for Washington Supreme Court
insert and Undated Greek-Cyprus roundup 2nd lead
The AP
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Supreme Court Bjt NL 380 3 Takes 1,000
By DON McLEOD
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A unanimous Supreme Court said Wednesday a
president's executive privilege must give way to criminal justice and
ruled President Nixon must give up White House tapes and papers
wanted by the Watergate prosecutor.
In one of the most important decisions of its two-century history,
the court declared firmly that it is its duty to decide the law and
disagreed with Nixon's claim of absolute control over administration
papers and communications.
''Neither the doctrine of separation of powers nor the need for
confidentiality of high-level communications . . . can sustain an
absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from
judicial process under all circumstances,'' the court said.
The court recognized the constitutional right of Nixon or any
president, to the privacy necessary for making important decisions.
But it said these rights must be carefully weighed against other
constitutional commands and exercised within strict bounds.
The decision has the effect of ordering Nixon to turn over tapes
and records of 64 White House conversations for possible use in the
Watergate cover-up trial scheduled to start in U.S. District Court
here Sept. 9.
The tapes cover conversations from June 20, 1972, a few days after
the Watergate break-in, to June 4, 1973, the day Nixon listened to
several earlier tapes.
At the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif., Press Secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler had no immediate comment. He said Nixon and his
attorney were meeting ''to review the situation.''
Special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, whose petition tothe
high court had brought the landmark ruling, said he expected the
White House to comply and begin delivering the materials ''in the
next few days.''
The President has insisted that he has the authority and duty under
the Constitution to decide his constitutional role and should have
final say over whether he should give up any confidential
communications.
As late as Monday night, presidential lawyer James D. St. Clair
said Nixon had not yet decided whether he would follow a Supreme
Court demand to turn over the tapes.
As St. Clair had argued before the high court on July 8, the
question has important implications for the impeachment proceedings
in Congress, since several congressmen have said defiance of the
court would constitute strong impeachment grounds.
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WASHINGTON Take 2 Supreme Court Bjt NL: grounds. 450
The House Judiciary Committee wants some of the tapes for its own
inquiry but Jaworski has no authority to turn them over; Chairman
Peter W. Rodino Jr. said the decision would not postpone the
committee's debate.
Reacting to the court decision, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., and
several other onservative senators said if Nixon failed to comply,
it would hurt him badly in his fight to avoid impeachment.
Jaworski indicated outside the court that he felt the decision was
definitive enough to require obedience, saying he was particularly
pleased it was unanimous ''because that doesn't leave any doubt in
anybody's mind as to what the law is.''
The court also seemed to be signaling something of the same
message. Unlike other recent important decisions, it issued only one
document on behalf of all participating justices with no separate
concurring opinions to cloud the issue.
All eight justices participating in the case voted for the
decision, written and read from the bench by Chief Justice Warren E.
Burger, a Nixon appointee to the court. Justice William H. Rehnquist
did not take part in the case.
Reading in an unemotional, steady tone, Burger acknowledged the
gravity of the situation but said this was one of those rare times in
history when the court, and the court alone, must decide where powers
reside among the branches of government.
Citing the court's 1962 ruling on apportionment of state
legslatures, Burger said the Nixon case also contained ''that
concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon
which the court so largely depends for illumination of difficult
constitutional questions.''
In his oral arguments before the court, St. Clair had said Nixon
was willing to submit the question to the court ''for its guidance
and judgment with respect to the law'' but that ''the President, on
the other hand, has his obligations under the Constitution.
The court swept aside this claim, declaring ''it is emphatically
the province and duty of this court to say what the law is with
respect to the claim of privilege presented in this case.''
''In the performance of assigned constitutional duties each branch
of the government must initially interpret the Constitution, and the
interpretation of its poers by any branch is due great respect from
the others,'' Burger said.
However, the court noted that since the historic 1803 Marbury vs.
Madison case, the Supreme Court has held that it is its right and
duty to interpret the Constitution in its final analysis.
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Nixon 2nd NL 300
By FRANCES LEWINE
Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - President Nixon and his chief Watergate
defense lawyer conferred Wednesday over the Supreme Court's ruling
that Nixon must surrender subpoenaed tape recordings. There was no
immediate word as to whether the President would comply with the 8-0
court ruling.
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said that the White
House would have a statement at 4 p.m. PDT - 7 p.m. EDT. But
spokesmen would not say what form it would take or give any hint of
its content.
A scheduled presidential meeting with Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development James T. Lynn to discuss the nation's housing
problems was cancelled as Nixon and defense lawyer James D. St. Clair
conferred.
A White House spokesman said Nixon was informed of the ruling by
Alexander M. Haig Jr., his chief of staff. He was told at 8:45 a.m.
California time, about half an hour after the ruling was reported by
the news media, Ziegler said.
A copy of the court ruling was sent to San Clemente by telecopier
from Washington.
Ziegler said the White House counsel's office in Washington
received notice 40 minutes before the start of the court session that
there would be a Watergate decision and that the President's lawyers
should be represented in the courtroom. Nixon was not told of the
development at that time, Ziegler said.
Nixon has refused to produce the tapes of the 64 Watergate-related
conversations on the grounds of executive privilege. The tapes were
sought by special prosecutor Leon Jaworski in connection with
Watergate cover-up trials.
In a similar dispute with Jaworski's predecessor, Archibald Cox,
Nixon promised that he would comply with a definitive Supreme Court
ruling. Cox was fired, however, and the issue never reached the high
court. The President and St. Clair consistently have refused to say
whether Nixon would obey a Supreme Court order in the case at this
time.
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PMs In
HIjack a226 2nd Lead
CALI, COLOMBIA (AP) - A young man hijacked an Avianca jet with
about 130 persons aboard Wednesday on a domestic flight in
northwestern Colombia, then was fatally wounded in a shootout with
police after the plane landed in Cali, authorities reported.
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WASHINGTON Greece-Cyprus A234, to fix first name, sub for 2nd graf:
Cyprus.
Simultaneously, the State Department in a one-sentence statement
welcomed Caramanlis' return to Athens and also announced the de facto
recognition of Glafcos Clerides as head of state of Cyprus.
''We welcome, etc 3rd graph
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Wirephoto Color Advisory
Wirephoto plans color coverage of the House Judiciary Committee
proceedings Wednesday night. Transmission of a color separation
project is planned after network close. We shall keep you advised.
The AP
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WASHINGTON Take 3 Supreme Court Bjt NL a246-247: analysis 480
''Notwithstanding the deference each branch must accord the other,
the judicial power of the United States vested in the federal courts
by Article III Section 1, of the Constitution can no more be shared
with the executive branch than the chief executive, for example, can
share with the judiciary the veto power, or the Congress share with
the judiciary the power to override a presidential veto,'' the court
said.
''Any other conclusion would be contrary to the basic concept of
separation of powers and the checks and balances that flow from the
scheme of a tripartite government.''
The judges refused to rule on a question raised by the President,
whether the Watergate grand jury exceeded its authority as naming
him as an unindicted co-conspirator. The court said it
''improvidently granted'' the President's petition to decided the
issue, indicating it should not have considered the cae.
The justices said they sympathized with Nixon's desire to preserve
the right to receive confidential and candid advice, without the
chilling prospect of it later being publicized.
''A president and those who assist him must be free to explore
alternatives in the process of shaping policies and making decisions
and to do so in a way many would be unwilling to express except
privately,'' the court nodded. ''These are the considerations
justifying a presumptive privilege for presidential communications.
''The privilege is fundamental to the operation of government and
inextricably rooted in the separation of powers under the
Constitution.''
The court observed that nowhere in the Constitution is there any
explicit grant of executive privilege but conceded that insofar as
is reasonably needed for the discharge of a president's duties it
''is constitutionally based.''
''On the other hand,'' the court said, ''the allowance of the
privilege to withhold evidence that is demonstrably relevant in a
criminal trial would cut deeply into the guarantee of ue process of
law and gravely impair the basic function of the courts.
''A president's acknowledged need for confidentiality in the
communications of his office is general in nature, whereas the
constitutional need for production of relevant evidence in a
criminal proceeding is specific and central to the fair adjudication
of a particular criminal case in the administration of justice.
''Without access to specific facts a criminal prosecution may be
totally frustrated.''
Moreover, Burger wrote, the limited review of selected materials by
a federal judge in this case and use of some of them by the
prosecutor would not seriously impair Nixon's need for
confidentiality in any legitimate sense.
''We conclude that when the grounds for asserting privilege as to
subpoenaed materials sought for use in criminal trial is based only
on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot prevail
over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair
administration of criminal justice,'' th court said.
''The generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the
demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal
trial.''
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LATE NEWS ADVISORY
ABC reports it has received a request from White House Press
Secretary Ziegler for network time between 6 and 7 p.m. EDT tonight.
We are pressing the Western White House for further details on the
planned response to the Supreme Court ruling and will advise you
promptly.
The AP
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By ALEX EFTY
Associated Press Writer
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis swore in
his new government Wednesday and then, through his foreign minister,
announced the recognition of Archbishop Makarios as the legal
president of Cyprus.
The announcement was a complete turnaround from the position held
by the Greek military junta, which resigned on Tuesday to open the
way for the civilian national unity government.
Foreign Minister George Mavros said the new government ''has
accepted fully the United Nations Security Council decison on Cyprus
. . . We, therefore, recognize President Makarios as the legal head
of Cyprus.''
The U.N. resolution called for the restoration of constitutional
government on Cyprus after a coup overthrew Makarios and forced him
to flee from the island on July 15. The Greek junta in Athens had
been accused of masterminding the coup.
The overthrow led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which in turn
brought Greece close to war with Turkey. The crisis was believed
largely responsible for the general's fall from power.
Caramanlis, the 67-year-old former premier and elder statesman,
also named Mavros deputy premier and ordered him to head the Greek
delegation at the Cyprus peace talks in Geneva.
Large crowds cheered outside the parliament building as the 10 new
members of the cabinet entered to take their oaths of office. Six of
them had served prison terms of various lengths during the seven
years of Greek military rule.
The streets of Athens remained alive with joyous Greeks shouting
and dancing as they celebrated the resignation of the old regime and
the removal from power of strongman Brig. Gen. Dimitrios Ioannides.
Ioannides, the commander of the military police, was ordered to a
front line command along the Greek-Turkish border after his
resignation from the armed forces was rejected, military sources
said.
President Phaedon Gizikis, himself a former general, remained in
office. But reliable sources said Caramanlis, a past critic of the
military, agreed to head the new government only after being assured
that he could run things without military interference.
In one of his first moves, Caramanlis released 45 political
prisoners detained by the junta on the bleak island of Yiaros in the
Aegean Sea. Hundreds of students and youths jailed during
demonstrations last November were also freed from city jails.
The new cabinet represented a cross-section of Greek politicians
and economists who had largely been silenced by the military regime.
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ATHENS Greece Bjt NL Take 2: Geneva. 210
It was still unclear what specifically led the junta, under Premier
Adamantios Androutsopoulos, to resign on Tuesday without greater
protest.
Knowledgeable observers speculated that the military themselves
decided to abdicate, realizing that they lacked the popular support
and technical ability needed to extricate Greece from its Cyprus
crisis as well as solving lingering problems over the economy and
dissident elements calling for a more democratic society.
Caramanlis' selection of a cabinet appeared to reflect an emphasis
on economic and bureacratic expertise indicating that the new premier
- a man with a reputation of getting things done - hopes to move
decisively to solve the country's mounting economic problems,
including rising inflation.
In addition to Mavros, the new cabinet
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ATHENS Greece Bjt NL Take 2: regime. 210
It was still unclear what specifically led the unta, underPremier
Adamantios Androutsopoulos, to resign on Tuesday without greater
protest.
Knowledgeable observers speculated that the military themselves
decided to abdicate, realizing that they lacked the popular support
and technical ability needed to extricate Greece from its Cyprus
crisis as well as solving lingering problems over the economy and
dissident elements calling for a more democratic society.
Caramanlis' selection of a cabinet appeared to reflect an emphasis
on economic and bureacratic expertise indicating that the new premier
- a man with a reputation of getting things done - hopes to move
decisively to solve the country's mounting economic problems,
including rising inflation.
In addition to Mavros, the new cabinet included:
Zenophon Zolotas, economic coordination; Evangelos Averoff,
defense; Taksi Lambrias, undersecretary for press and information;
John Pesmatzoglou, finance; Nicholas Louros, education; Solon Ghikas,
public order; Constantine Papaconstantinou, justice; George Rallis,
interior; Constantine Tsatsos, culture and science, and Andras
Kokevis, social services.
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Most public activities in Turkey returned to normal. Foreign
commercial air flights resumed operations through Turkey and shipping
lines announced that regular schedules would be resumed Thursday.
Turks in general were relieved with the cease-fire that ended
military operations in Cyprus. But some expressed dissapointment that
the operation was cut short before Turkish troops had taken over
Nicosia.
Said a Turkish engineer: ''The army seemed to have been quite
successful, but many Turks hoped for more.''
Foreign Minister Turan Gunes is scheduled to leave for Geneva
Thursday to attend the Cyprus peace talks. He will be accompanied by
a high-level group of diplomats and three generals.
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Impeachment Bjt NL CORRECTION
WASHINGTON Impeachment Bjt NL take 2, A227, to spell Fish
correctly, sub 6th graf: impeachment.
The other four considered likeliest to support impeachment were
Reps. William Cohen of Maine, Hamilton Fish Jr., of New York, M.
Caldwell Butler of Virginia and Tom Railsback of Illinois.
The Judiciary 7th graf.
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Managing Editors
We have received some queries about the correct English spelling of
the name of the new Greek premier, whether it is Konstantine
Karamanlis or Constantine Caramanlis. The Associated Press spelling
has been with a ''c'' for some time.
We are now checking with our Athens bureau to determine from the
premier himself his preference.
The AP
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WASHINGTON Supreme Court Bjt NL add: trial.
The case was expected to make the history books as one of the
biggest constitutional decisions ever made by the court, ranking with
one by early Chief Justice John Marshall in which the high court
first claimed the absolute right as arbiter of what is
constitutional.
Never before had the court taken such a direct action in stating
the limits of a president's powers. St. Clair had told the court the
ruling against Nixon would strip him of essential powers and make him
''an 85 per cent President.''
The closest precedent to Wednesday's ruling was the 1952 decision
denying President Harry S. Truman the right to take over the nation's
steel mills, but the legal action in that case was technically
directed at Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer.
The court brushed by arguments that a decision in the tapes case
would unbalance the separation of powers and intrude the court into a
''political'' area - arguments which effectively kept it from ever
ruling definitively on the legal challenges to the Vietnam War.
In terms of breaking new constitutional ground, Wednesday's
decision also ranked with the Baker vs. Carr case in which it
abandoned the traditional separation of states and federal
sovereignties over their own governments and ordered ''one-man,
one-vote'' apportionment of legislatures.
Burger recalled that in earlier decisions the court had confirmed
executive priilege but only in cases where diplomatic or military
secrets were involved.
This case, Burger said, was different from all those in that it
involved a criminal trial. Nixon was in the position of a third party
holding essential evidence and there were no military or diplomatic
implications.
Any claim of privilege, Burger said, ''must be considered in light
of our historic commitment to the rule of law.''
''This is nowhere more profoundly manifest than in our view that
the twofold aim of criminal justice is that guilt shall not escap or
innocence suffer,'' Burger said.
''We have elected to employ an adversary system of criminal justice
in which the parties contest all issues before a court of law,'' he
said. ''The need to develop all relevant facts in the adversary
system is both fundamental and comprehensive.''
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This was the argument made by Jaworski when he asked the court to
order Nixon to honor a subpoena issued from material to be used as
evidence in the trial of six former Nixon administration and campaign
aides on charges of trying to cover up the Watergate case. Most of
the defendants had joined Jaworski in the original subpoena request
saying they needed the materials for their defense.
The case tracked the route taken a year ago where original special
prosecutor Archibald Cox had subpoenaed nine White House tapes. U.S.
District Judge John J. Sirica, who issued Jaworski's subpoena, also
backed Cox and was supported by the U.S. Court of Appeals here.
Nixon fired cox but ultimately turned over seven tapes rather than
appeal to the Supreme Court. The White House said two subpoenaed
tapes did not exist and an 18 1/2-minute gap was found in one of those
surrendered.
Twenty of the tapes sought by Jaworski were issued in edited transc
ript form by the White House earlier this year, but Jaworski said he
still wanted the tapes to verify theaccuracy and completeness of the
transcripts.
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URGENT
LATE NEWS ADVISORY
Further our a253 advisory, the Western White House says its has NOT
asked for live network time to deliver its response to the Supreme
Court ruling. ABC also says it has received no such request.
There is a possibility, however, that the networks will air the
White House statement, expected at 7 p.m. EDT. We are checking
further with the networks on their plans.
Still no further detail on the nature of the statement or who will
deliver it. However, the statement is to be made at press
headquarters in Laguna Beach, not at San Clemente, where President
Nixon would be expected to meet with the press.
We'll eep you posted on developments.
The AP
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By JAY PERKINS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The line began forming outside the Supreme Court
shortly after dawn, Wednesday, a procession in anticipation of a
historic event.
Most of the crowd of more than 300 stood quietly, talking among
themselves and awaiting confirmation of their belief that the high
court would soon rule on the Watergate tapes controversy.
The crowd had come in anticipation of a ruling on whether President
Nixon, by virtue of his office, could withhold his taped
conversations from an officer of the law seeking to uncover
wrongdoing.
They were not to be disappointed.
But now they stood and waited, clutching the strips of scrap paper
that showed their place in line and that served as their admission
ticket to the small courtroom. Some carried bar review books that
summarized their years of law school and prepared them for their upc
oming bar examination. Others wielded guidebooks to Washington
sights.
At 10:40 a.m., more than four hours after the line started forming,
a black car carrying Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and
three assistants pulled up in front of the building. Jaworski, who
initiated te tapes suit after President Nixon refused to turn over
requested tapes, was quickly swallowed by a crowd of newsmen and
sympathetic spectators. The crowd slowly moved up the steps to the
second floor courtroom with the former Houston attorney smiling and
posing for the various cameramen.
Inside the courtroom, Chief Justice Warren Burger began the session
with an eulogy to the late Chief Justice Earl Warren. He then turned
to the tapes controversy, reading, paraphrasing and ad libbing
portions of the lengthy decision while seven of his fellow jurists
sat silent.
The eighth chair, belonging to Justice William Rehnquist, remained
empty. Rehnquist, a former Justice Department attorney, has
disqualified himself from hearing the case.
The vote was unanimous against the President's position and
Jaworski emerged from the courtroom smiling, saying he was
''especially pleased that it was unanimous because that doesn't leave
any doubt in any mind what the law is.''
Applause greeted Jaworski as he merged from the building and headed
toward his car. He stopped for a short interview with newsmen and
then drove away as the crowd again applauded.
Newsmen began packing their cameras. The crowd slowly dispersed,
some to the Capitol building, others to sight-see.
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By The Associated Press
Greece opened the way Wednesday for the return of Archbishop
Makarios as president of Cyprus as the island's newly installed head
of state declared his main task was to preserve the fragile
cease-fire between Turks and Greeks.
In Athens, the foreign minister of the newly appointed civilian
cabinet, which succeeded the resigned military regime, said his
government recognizes Makarios as the president and legal head of
Cyprus.
There was no immediate comment from Makarios, who is in New York.
The archbishop said on Tuesday, however, that he expected to return
to the island as president within a few weeks.
The previous Greek military dictatorship is widely believed to have
engineered the ouster of Makarios on July 15 in an unsuccessful
attempt to replace the island's independent governmnt with pro-Greek
leaders.
The new foreign minister, George Mavros, said Greece ''has accepted
fully the United Nations Security Council decision on Cyprus. One of
the points of this resolution is a call for the restoration of
constitutional order. Since we accept that, we therefore recognize
President Markarios as the legal head of Cyprus.''
He added, ''When Makarios will return is another question. That's
his business.''
On Cyprus, Glafcos Clerides, who was installed as president
Tuesday, remained in office. In a news conference broadcast by Cyprus
radio and monitored in Beirut, he warned that the truce was
endangered by Turkish forces taking up new positions.
Regarding Makarios's return, he said this is a question for the
Cypriot people to decide.
His job now, he said, is to avoid bloodshed. ''Turks and Greeks
must coexist in the Cyprus nation without fighting.''
Preparations were under way in Geneva for the foreign ministers of
Greece, Turkey and Britain to open talks Thursday aimed at averting
war over Cyprus and working out a settlement for the island country
in the eastern Mediterranean.
Britain, which proposed the meeting, stressed the need for speed to
safeguard the cease-fire that took effect Monday.
Diplomats in Geneva welcomed Tuesday's government changes in both
Cyprus and Greece as encouraging signs for the talks. Clerides and
Constantine Caramanlis, who returned from 11 years of self-imposed
exile to become premier of Greece, were seen as moderate civilian
leaders identified with a policy of independence for Cyprus and
guarantees for the rights of both Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Caramanlis was sworn in as premier early Wednesday after the
seven-year-old military regime resigned Tuesday in the wake of its
failure to establish a pro-Greek regime in Cyprus.
Clerides replaced Nicos Sampson who had been named president just a
week earlier by the Greek leaders of the coup which ousted Makarios.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Turan Gunes was quoted in an interview
published by the newspaper Le Monde as also favoring independence for
Cyprus. He disclaimed any Turkish interest in partitioning the
island.
The newspaper quoted him as saying, ''We want the island to be a
state distinct from Greece and Turkey and to remain a real
independent state. All we want is for everyone to live in peace on
the island.''
In the Cyprus radio broadcast of his news conference, Clerides said
he had had no contacts with .akarios since he had taken office. The
question of Makarios' return, he said, ''is a question for the people
of Cyprus.''
The president said he talked with Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf
Denktash and that Denktash expressed the intention to respect the
cease-fire.
But Clerides said the some Turkish forces have taken new positions
since the cease-fire.
''This has created a dangerous situation. It will be impossible to
maintain the cease-fire if Turks move from their post.''
At the United Nations in New York Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim
has appealed to all parties to return to their positions at the time
the cease-fire took effect on July 22.
''Obviously our men are not in a position to force people back, but
we're hoping the governments will respond positively to his appeal,''
a spokesman said.
Asked whether U.N. forces on Cyprus had been forced to fire any
shots, the spokesman replied: ''As a matter of fact, the Canadians at
Camp Kronberg yesterday fired about four shots and as a result there
was a cease-fire for some hours.''
The spokesman reported that 17 members of the U.N. peacekeeping
force had been injured and one killed since the July 15 coup. The
wounded included 10 Canadians, one Dane, one Finn, two British
soldiers and three whose nationalities were not immediately
determined at headquarters.
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All the AMS budgets have moved.
The AP
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Court-Reaction NL 420, two takes 550
By PEGGY SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress said
Wednesday President Nixon should obey the unanimous Supreme Court
order to give up Watergate tapes or he would face certain
impeachment.
Democrats and many Republicans said the House Judiciary Committee
should not delay its debate and vote on proposed articles of
impeachment, however, in hopes of getting the tapes.
The court order applied to tapes sought for the Watergate cover-up
trial, but the committee also has subpoenaed most of the same tapes.
''If the President would defy the court the way he has defied the
committee, I don't see how we could avoid articles of impeachment,''
said Rep. Robert McClory, R-Ill., second-ranked GOP member on the
Judiciary Committee.
Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., said if Nixon ''refuses to turn them
over, I think it would have a very bad effect on his chances of surv
iving impeachment.''
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., who headed the Senate Watergate
investigation, called the ruling ''one of the most healthy decisions
it has ever made in the entire history of the nation.'' He said he
assumed the President would obey it.
Sen. John Tunney, D-Calif., said Nixon's failure to comply with the
court order ''would openly violate his oath to uphold the laws of
this country and would constitute an article of impeachment.''
''If he doesn't comply I would think it would be a very damaging
thing for his prospects of remaining in office,'' said Sen. James A.
McClure, R-Idaho.
''He is in bad shape now and any refusal would put him in worse
shape,'' Sen. Russell Long, D-La., said.
Rep. Earl Landgrebe, R-Ind., called a news conference to reaffirm
his support for Nixon. ''I don't care what action the House, the
Senate, or the Supreme Court takes against the President. I
appreciate what the man has done for us,'' Landgrebe said.
Among other comments, Gov. Winfield Dunn of Tennessee, chairman of
the Republican governor's conference, said, ''Now that the decision
has been made, I would urge the President to comply.''
The Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J.,
opposed any delay in the panel's impeachment inquiry to await more
tapes. He said the staff has estimated it would take two months at
least to produce usable transcripts from the tapes if they were
received immediately.
House Speaker Carl Albert and Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill
also said they hoped the committee would proceed.
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By FRANCES LEWINE
Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - President Nixon and his chief Watergate
defense lawyer conferred Wednesday over the Supreme Court's ruling
that Nixon must surrender subpoenaed tape recordings. There was no
immediate word as to whether the President would comply with the 8-0
court ruling.
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said that the White
House would have a statement at 4 p.m. PDT - 7 p.m. EDT. Special
presidential counsel James D. St. Clair was to deliver the response,
but there was no indication of its content or length.
The ABC and NBC networks said they would carry the St. Clir
statement live, while CBS said it planned to go ahead with its
regularly scheduled news programming. St. Clair was not expected to
answer questions from newsmen.
A scheduled presidential meeting with Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development James T. Lynn to discuss the nation's housing
problems was cancelled as Nixon and St. Clair conferred.
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McClory said he thought the committee should hold up as long as a
month to seek the tapes.
However, Rep. Charles Wiggins, R-Calif., disagreed and said ''there
is no point of delaying the committee vote if there is no prospect of
getting anything.''
Another committee member, Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y., said
Nixon has had since February to turn over any exonerating material
and ''to proceed now on the basis of the substantial evidence we have
is very proper.''
Rep. Charles W. Sandman Jr., R-N.J., said he didn't think the
committee, of which he is a member, should delay its debate and
voting but said he thought some effort should be made to determine
whether the tapes information is relevant. If so, Sandman said, they
should be obtained before the full House debates articles of
impeachment.
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Please note a268 Nixon 3rd NL, which includes new information that
St. Clair will deliver the White House response, and network coverage
plans. There is no word yet on the length of the statement or whether
an advance text will be available.
The story will be updated promptly with developments, and you'll be
advised when and if more details become available.
Upcoming from Washington are separates on the portion of the
court's ruling dealing with the grand jury's naming of President
Nixon as a co-conspirator decision, and a backgrounder on what is
thought to be in the subpoenaed tapes.
The reaction roundup, a267, will be updated as warranted.
The AP
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Busing NL 400 two takes 650
By JIM LUTHER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate accepted a compromise Wednesday that
recognizes the courts' right to order busing to end school
segregation.
The compromise, approved 81 to 15, sends a $25.2-billion education
bill back to the House, which three times has insisted that its
stricter limits on busing be approved.
The key Senate vote was much closer. By a 55-42 vote, senators
rejected a motion by Sen. James B. Allen, D-Ala., to return the bill
to conference with instructions to accept the House antibusing
provisions.
As accepted by the Senate, the bill would prohibit the busing of a
pupil beyond the school next-closest to his home unless the courts
deem it necessary to bus farther to protect the constitutional rights
of minority children. The House version would flatly prohibit busing
beyond the next-closest school.
Sen. Bill Brock, R-Tenn., called the compromise, worked out in a
six-week-long conference between Senate and House delegates, ''the
worst of both worlds.''
On the one hand, Brock said, the compromise would retain the busing
orders already in effect in the South. On the other hand, he said,
it would make it much more difficult for new busing orders to be
issued - thus ''freezing in the segregation in Northern schools.''
The compromise would allow courts to reopen old busing cases if it
is shown that a continuation of busing would adversely affect the
health or education of pupils. The House bill would require
readjudication of all, old cases so as to ban busing beyond the
second-closest school.
Another area of difference between the two versions concerns
termination of old orders.
The compromise would allow termination of old orders only if the
affected school district were in compliance with desegregation laws
and if the judge specifically found that such compliance would
continue. The House version would allow termination on a showing that
the district has a freedom-of-choice desegregation plan in operation.
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The Senate action came a day before the Supreme Court is due to
rule on a key busing case. At issue in the Detroit case is whether a
court may order busing across school district lines to achieve
desegregation.
The compromise antibusing provisions are somewhat stricter than in
the original Senate bill, which President Nixon called much too weak.
In anticipation of a presidential veto, 146 House members have
written Nixon promising to uphold his veto unless the House language
is accepted. That would be enough votes to kill a vetoed bill.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits of New York, ranking Republican on the Senate
education subcommittee and a principal member of the Senate-House
conference, said House busing opponents got most of what they wanted
in the bill, ''except where the result would have been disruptive and
dangerjus.''
The issue facing the conferees was not whether to allow busing, but
on how Congress should regulate busing ''and to what extent should we
invite a confrontation between Congress and the Supreme Court,
''Javits said.''
Although the antibusing provirsions have received most of the
attention, the four-year bill was hailed by some sponsors as the most
important education legislation ever considered by Congress.
The bill increases education aid for handicapped children, for
bilingual education and for schools in districts with a high
concentration of federal employes.
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By GAYLORD SHAW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)-White House aide John McLaughlin said Wednesday the
nation would face a year-long ''parade of horrors'' if the House
votes to impeach President Nixon.
McLaughlin, a Jesuit priest and one of Nixon's most outspoken
defenders, said a continuation of the impeachment process would
severely damage the nation's morale, could hurt the economy and
damage international relations.
Addressing the National Press Club, the deputy special assistant to
the President said, ''Our purpose should be to keep impeachment out
of the Senate so as to spare the nation the ordeal.''
If the case reaches the Senate, he said, his ''ball park estimate''
is tat the trial would last 7 1/2 months and probably would not begin
until early next year.
McLaughlin said it is ''hard to believe the American body politic
would be able to contain its outrage'' because of the national
paralysis that would result from the proceeding.
Calling House Judiciary Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., and
other Democratic committee members ''impeachment zanies,'' McLaughlin
sad Nixon supporters will ''not easily swallow the searing
indignation and resentment'' they feel because of the way impeachment
proceedings have been handled.
The presidential aide said a Senate trial would cause the economy
to sag and would damage U.S. foreign policy because i the eyes of
other countries ''the image of democracy would be fouled.''
He said such a trial also could bring a backlash against the media.
During a question-and-answer session which followed his speech,
McLaughlin sharply criticized the media, saying, ''The
professionalism ... the self-policing of the American media is
appalling.''
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