Appleton Post-Crescent (Newspaper) - October 23, 1973, Appleton, Wisconsin Spacemen foiled JONESBORO Ark AP men accused of impersonating visitors from outer space have been fined each plus in court costs on charges of malicious mischief Municipal Judge John States suspended jail sentences Monday for the two Stanley Ray Burdyshaw 18 and William Don Wilson 21 both of Bono State Trooper Daniel Oldham and Deputy Sheriff Finley of Craighead County said about 20 motorists reported Sunday night that little men in silver suits were obstructing traffic on U.S 63 near Bono about seven miles northwest of here Oldham said he and Finley found the two standing at the edge of the highway covered from head to toe With aluminum foil Motorists complained that the little men had been jumping in front of cars Oldham said Nixon agrees to give tapes to federal judge WASHINGTON AP President Nixon agreed today to comply in full with the U.S Court of Appeals ruling directing him to give the White House tapes to a federal judge The announcement came as the 48 Pages Wis Tuesday October 23 1973 15 cents Richardson won't judge WASHINGTON AP Elliot L Richardson said today the ultimate judgment on the Watergate crisis must be made by the American people He said he is not the man to pass judgment on the question of whether President Nixon should be impeached While he made no direct reply to the impeachment question at a nationally televised news conference the former attorney general said he believes in the goals and priorities of the ion particularly in foreign policy Richardson recounted the ions deadlock and presidential orders that led him to resign Saturday rather than fire Archibald Cox as special prosecutor in the Watergate case He said those events too are matters to be judged by the people and that the fairness with which they are may determine the future well-being and security of the nation Richardson said he does not believe the President is now or will be in direct violation of a court order for his refusal to yield White House tape recordings although the courts have instructed him to do so Richardson's farewell appearance at the Department of Justice began amid the applause and cheers of the staff he had headed for some five months Later came the direct Does Richardson believe the President should be Richardson replied by noting that he served the administration in varying roles since Nixon took office I believe in the directions and priorities of the he said I regard as particularly important the role of the President of the United States President Richard Nixon in dealing with international he said As for events in the Watergate case which have led to congressional demands for an impeachment move Richardson said I do not believe that I am a person who should try to pass judgment on them In his opening discussion of the case Richardson did not criticize the President At stake in the controversy son said is the integrity of government that I came to the Justice Department to help restore Richardson said the case became one of deadlock between Nixon's insistence on the principle of confidentiality of presidential conversations and his own assurances that Cox would be unfettered in the Watergate investigation The rest is for the American people Party line Madison burton MADISON The State Senate refused today to suspend its rules and ask Congress to proceed with impeachment proceedings against President Nixon The Senate voted on a near vote against the motion by Minority Leader Fred Risser of Madison All Senate Republicans voted against the motion and all Democrats with the exceptions of Sens Jerome Martin of Whitelaw and Ronald Parys of Milwaukee voted for the motion Delay trial of Mitchell NEW YORK AP trial of former Cabinet officers John N Mitchell and Maurice H Stans was postponed again today with both the prosecution and defense still seeking a White House tape and other documents U.S District Court Judge Lee P Gagliardi delayed the trial to Jan 7 after federal prosecutors said the White House promised to say within two weeks whether documents relating to former White House counsel John W Dean III would be made available The prosecution has described Dean who has pleaded guilty to obstructing investigation of the Watergate scandal as its key witness in the case against Mitchell and Stans The two men who held high positions in President Nixon's 1972 re-election committee are accused of conspiracy obstruction of justice and perjury in connection with a secret cash contribution by fugitive financier Robert L Vesco to he said On the fairness with which you do so may well rest the future well-being and security of our beloved country Richardson and President Nixon met for a half-hour Monday afternoon cording to a White House spokesman but the contents of that discussion were not revealed A Richardson confidant discounted speculation Richardson might have been offered another administration post Solicitor General Robert H Bork who became acting attorney general after William D Ruckelshaus was fired from the No 2 position for refusing to fire Cox promised vigorous pursuit of the Watergate investigation He placed Assistant Atty Gen Henry E Petersen in direct charge of the Watergate case and all related matters previously being directed by the special prosecutor Justice Department spokesmen said Petersen has agreed to resume com- mand of an investigation he relinquished when Cox's office was established ersen has been unavailable for com- ment However other sources well acquainted with Petersen said he has not shut off the option of resigning if he finds his hands tied by Nixon's order to Cox to forego any further legal efforts to obtain White House tapes and other documents Cox considered vital to the case Petersen wants to review the evidence personally and reach his own decisions about what if any White House records are needed sources said House of Representatives began pre- liminary investigation into whether the President should be impeached Nixon's surprise announcement was made to U.S District Court Judge John J Sirica by Charles Alan Wright lawyer for the President Wright told Sirica that the President had hoped that the compromise he an- Friday night would end the constitutional crisis Events over the weekend made it very apparent it did not Wright said The announcement shocked tors in the packed courtroom who had been waiting to hear how Sirica would respond to the President's proposal to summarize the tapes and have his summary verified by a senior member of the Senate It was the President's stated refusal to turn over the tapes which led him to fire special Watergate prosecutor Ar- Cox on Saturday night after Cox said that he would pursue his court battle to obtain the tapes as dence for the Watergate grand jury Sirica had issued an order on Aug 29 directing the President to give him nine White House tapes subpoenaed by Cox so that he could examine them in private and de- termine if the President had a valid claim for withholding them The White House had delivered to Sirica on Monday a of the dent's announcement Friday night as well as a proposed order accepting it- Nixon's decision to give in on the tapes was thought likely to lessen timent for impeachment However many of his critics have attacked him on other matters ing his orders to Cox to refrain from seeking other White House papers and tapes relating to the ITT milk fund and other controversies Nixon's tapes decision also leaves the Watergate prosecution within his own Department of Justice another major complaint of his foes Furthermore Senate critics of Nixon's action have cited what they consider to have been an tration commitment to an independent investigation by Cox That commitment was made by Hot L Richardson in Senate Judiciary Committee proceedings on his nation to be attorney general a tion he resigned rather than fire Cox Sirica opened the hearing at p.m by announcing that the decision of the court of appeals had been ered to him He read the order dated Oct 12 1973 including the portion saying the President's petition is denied The judge his voice occasionally faltering then said This filing makes effective the der of this court dated Aug 29 except as modified by the court of appeals Sirica then read his own order which said it is by the court dered the respondent President ard M Nixon is hereby commanded to produce forthwith for the court's in- in camera the subpoenaed documents Sirica then read portions of the peals court order which modified his own to permit the President to hold portions of the tapes which dealt with foreign policy or national rity then he read the President will present to the district court all other items on the record The judge next turned to a footnote which provided the ground rules un- der which the higher court would con- sider appeals of any disputes over ter the President chose to withhold Then he looked at the counsel table where Wright and White House sel Leonard Garment sat and asked are counsel for the President pre- pared at this time to file a Wright a tall law professor from the University of Texas strode to the dium directly below Sirica and said I am not prepared His voice faded and then he told the judge As the court is aware the President filed a response and then he added that it was now withdrawn Panel asks reversal of Watergate decision For and against A lone man carries his sign supporting President Nixon along one street in Washington while demonstrators march down another street with signs calling for the impeachment of the President AP Wirephoto WASHINGTON AP Senate Watergate committee today asked the U.S Court of Appeals to reverse a decision dismissing its Watergate tapes suit In a brief filed with the appeals court the committee said It has been gested in the press that a compromise of this lawsuit was reached whereby appellants would forego this litigation in exchange for summaries of certain tapes This is not correct While the President has unilaterally offered summaries of certain tape recordings there was no commitment by Sens Sam J Ervin and Howard H Baker that as a quid pro quo this lawsuit would be withdrawn The committee said We need hardly stress that this case is of great moment to the nation The President is withholding materials that appellants urgently and vitally need to fulfill their legitimate legislative functions The panel said that the public interest in obtaining the materials it subpoenaed from the President is now significantly escalated after the dramatic events of this past weekend that saw the special prosecutor and the deputy attorney general fired and the attorney general resigned U.S Dist Court Judge John J Sirica last week dismissed the committee's civil suit against the President on the grounds it had failed to establish that the court had jurisdiction for such a case The President announced Friday night that with the of Ervin and Baker he planned to summarize the Watergate portions of the tapes and give them to the committee and the court after they had been verified by Sen John C Stennis Battles rage in Mideast despite cease-fire BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fierce tank and artillery clashes exploded along the Suez Canal today and dogfights erupted over the Syrian battleground despite the ceasefire The war raged into its 18th day on both fronts after a only partial overnight pause for the precarious Security Council truce designed to halt the com- bat in place and open the way to for a permanent peace Egypt called for an emergency Security Council meeting to discuss what it said were Israeli violations of the fragile cease-fire The council president Sir Laurence Mclntyre of Australia called a midday session at headquarters in New York Egypt and Israel had accepted the truce appeal out by the United States and the Soviet Union both Current report on High Point Educators view West drug situation ordered their armies Monday evening to hold their fire unless fired on But Syria kept silent on the call and only hours after it went into effect there were mutual accusations of ceasefire violations by Egyptians and Israelis along the Suez front A correspondent for Egypt's Middle East News Agency said the Israeli and Egyptian forces by today were locked in the most vicious fighting since the outbreak of the war Syria charged the Israelis sent about 60 warplanes in waves to bomb civilian targets today north of Damascus and said Israeli planes and cannons hit villages in the eastern of Mt Hermon Our jet fighters immediately clashed with the enemy in the most violent dogfight and prevented the enemy planes from carrying out their missions forcing them to drop their bomb loads in barren mountainous a Syrian communique said The renewed fighting cast doubt on whether the cease-fire could bring a quick halt to the fourth Middle East war despite the apparent agreement between U.S Secretary of State Henry A singer and Soviet Communist party chief Leonid I Brezhnev There was no sign of any international supervision in the battle zones officials said their truce observers were still in Cairo and Jerusalem where they were evacuated when the war broke out Oct 6 Israel charged the with incessant cease-fire violations The Tel Aviv command said its forces in the southern sector of the canal front had orders to continue fighting to counter what it said were persistant Egyptian attacks Egypt said the Israelis grabbed new positions during the night particularly in efforts to expand the Israeli foothold on the west bank of the canal Israeli planes bombed and strafed Egyptian troops in the area of the Israeli ration about midway up the canal Cairo claimed That compels our forces to use force to strike at the Israeli forces in the positions occupied after the said a communique from the Egyptian command The Middle East News Agency correspondent said the Egyptians along the Suez Canal were attacking with hundreds of tanks scores of mechanized infantry brigades and an unprecedented number of bombers The combined operations are forcing the enemy to fall back east while savage bombardment of enemy rockets on the west bank have reduced them to tually he said An Egyptian military spokesman charged that Israeli jets and tanks were carrying out combat operations on sectors Israel meanwhile reported that us planes were attacking Egyptian troops on both sides of the canal while its ar- mored forces were hitting Egyptian positions on the west bank An earlier Israeli communique reported heavy Egyptian fire Monday night and said toward the end of the night the shooting lessened but did not cease completely Several hours later a second announcement in Tel Aviv At daybreak the Egyptians opened heavy fire on Israeli forces on the western bank of the Suez Canal on the central sector There was no immediate word on Israeli retaliation in that area but an official of the Israeli command said after the earlier reports of Egyptian firing that the Israeli forces showed as much restraint as was possible before ing fire Damascus Radio announced that the Syrian government was still studying the cease-fire resolution voted early bv the Security and more 6 8 TV 5 7 Vital 4 Women's Fox Cities Pleasant Fair low near 50 tonight Partly cloudy chance of showers Wednesday High in the lower 70s Weather map on page New data ties Nixon to milk deal BY MICHAEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP evidence has surfaced tying President Nixon to an alleged deal involving a pledge of million in campaign money in exchange for administration favors for the dairy industry Investigative sources said Monday they have obtained a letter addressed to Nixon on Dec reminding him of the industry's past support and telling him of the milk need for immediate aid The letter was written the sources said by Pat Hillings of the Associated Milk Producers Inc the major industry group The Associated Press has confirmed the contents from four separate sources The thrust of the letter was a request that the President approve new milk tariffs that the industry was interested one source said It pointed out that the industry had million available for 1972 campaign but con- aid for the nation's dairy farmers was necessary if they were to continue their support Hillings noted that already had gone to 1970 congressional who were friends of dairymen the sources said A month later when the new Nixon budget was announced proposed dairy subsidies rose nearly 10 per cent com- pared to a slight increase for subsidies and a major decrease in shipments another method of government farm support The Hillings letter noted that it was bringing up a sensitive political the sources said and evidence indicates it went directly to presidential chief of staff H R Haldeman One source said it isn't tain whether Nixon read the letter or was merely told of its contents However the source said investigators have determined that Nixon learned of the contents of the letter The source said the evidence of Nixon's knowledge was in a later response to the diary industry The exact nature of this communication was not known The following March however three events took -Or March 22 1971 the contribution from milk producers was delivered to a group of dummy campaign committees that later turned their holdings over to the Nixon re- election campaign following day President Nixon and Secretary Clifford Hardin met at the White House with 16 spokesmen for the dairy industry -On March 25 Hardin reversed a decision not to grant an increase in federal price supports for and an- approval of a hundredweight hike in price supports claiming he had received new economic data The decision was worth between million and million to the nation's milk producers The secret campaign contributions later revealed by The Washington Post and federal investigators poured into the dummy committees and Nixon campaign coffers for many months eventually reaching more than On Feb 1 1972 a Gordon Strachan wrote a memo to his boss reporting that the sonal attorney and fundraiser Herbert W Kalmbach is very concerned about his involvement in the milk producers situation Strachan recommended that Kalmbach be relieved from his ment because of the risk cf disclosures The case was among issues being investigated by Archibald Cox before he was fired as special Watergate prosecutor The investigations now have been turned over to the Justice ment But they remain partially blocked by Nixon's orders Before Cox's dismissal Saturday Nixon ordered that no more subpoenas be issued for White House documents and tape recordings and Acting Atty Gen Robert H Bork said Monday he planned to adhere exactly to President Nixon's directives Nixon's orders cover Watergate ters as well as material and tapes relating to the milk funds ITT and Ellsberg burglary investigations
