Harrisonburg Daily News Record (Newspaper) - March 14, 1974, Harrisonburg, Virginia Weather In Brief Sunny And Cold VALLEY OF Two Sections 28 Pages Vol. 77, No. 138 Associated Press Features & Service March 14, 1974 For Business or News 433-2702 Ten Cents Senate Votes Death Penalty For Other Crimes WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Wednesday to restore the death penalty for treason and certain other federal crimes such as kidnaping and airplane hijacking that result in The vote was 54 to 33. The modified somewhat by now goes to the where no early action on it is in Urged by President Nixon a year the is designed to overcome a 1972 Supreme Court decision that the death as applied under existing was The lists a number of aggravating factors which would make the death penalty if any mitigating factors such as being under 18 years of age or having significantly Impaired mental a death sentence would be Other mitigating factors set out In the are acting under unusual or substantial being a relatively minor participant in a and not having been reasonably able to foresee that one's conduct would cause a risk of death to The presence or absence of aggravating or mitigating factors would be determined In a separate court before a jury or a after a trial at which a defendant had been convicted of a capital offense or entered a guilty This procedure Is Intended to meet the objections of Supreme Court justices that the death penalty has been imposed too End Of Oil Ban Likely Libya - The Arab oil ministers ended a one-day meeting here late and a high Libyan official said they had decided to lift the oil embargo against the United The official added they would not officially announce it in The oil ministers adjourned their closed meeting without announcing any The Libyan official said the meeting would be resumed in on Libya had been identified as one of the chief opponents of lifting the ban imposed during the October Middle East Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had pressed the Arab oil exporters for weeks to lift the embargo in recognition of American efforts to obtain an Israeli withdrawal from the Suez The Tripoli meeting ended at 11:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT - less than six hours after it Algerian Industry Minister Belaid chaired the He is current president of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting The Arab oil meeting was the third attempt to bring Arab oil producers together to consider an request for an end to the oil The meeting was first scheduled for Feb. 14 but did not take place then because of Algerian and Libyan A meeting in Cairo last Sunday also was blocked by the two holdout The Arab meeting in Vienna will be held the day after ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - OPEC - meet there to set new prices for oil from the Persian Libya and Observers in Vienna say the outcome of that meeting is the Egyptian press had reported that the Tripoli conference would lift the embargo and resume full production of Al Egypt's leading paper which often reflects official reported from Tripoli that the ban against the United States and the Netherlands would be lifted and production cutbacks amounting to 25 per cent or more would be The embargo and cutbacks were ordered during the October war in the Middle East to pressure oil importing nations to withdraw support for Al said the conference would issue a communique reviewing effectiveness of the oil weapon and explaining the decision to put It It said the conference would recognize the efforts of U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in working out a Middle East Moore Lifts Gas Rule Amid Strike Violence CHARLESTON - Gunfire hit the southern West Virginia coalfields as Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. acted on Wednesday to end a severe wildcat strike by suspending a controversial rule limiting gasoline Moore suspended for 30 days his rule that prohibited service stations to sell to anyone whose tank was more than But it was not certain if that suspension or a federal court order would end the 17-day walkout that now idles 27,600 Gunshots rang out shortly before midnight at the Keystone No. 1 mine of Eastern Associated Coal Co. in McDowell the heart of the strike Two pickets were injured and a woman who had stopped to chat suffered less severe this has I don't know whether lifting the rule will help or said a miner who has been active in the protest Referring to the limited order Issued by a federal judge in the miner don't think it will have any meaning The strike began over short supplies of but has continued despite renewed supplies in the which is deep in the Appalachians in the heavily unionized southern part of the Miners had demanded that Moore rescind the But coal and steel company officials have charged the reasons for the strike are politics and maneuvering in advance of this fall's coal industry contract The walkout has crippled production of which is necessary for the production of U.S. Steel has already laid off 300 put others on short work schedules and said up to 30,000 workers could be out of work by the end of the Moore said Wednesday that he never believed the gasoline issue was the cause of the He said he had been told that up to 98 per cent of the men off their jobs want to go back to A McDowell County deputy sheriff said the shootings of the two men and the woman occurred at a major mine where the entire work force wants to go back to as long as the pickets remain the miners will not arbitrarily to be The aggravating circumstances set out In the depend on whether national security crimes or murder are In murder they Include killing In especially cruel or depraved killing for or killing In connection with an airplane escape from custody and certain other In national security they Include a defendant's prior conviction for a similar offense and knowingly creating a grave risk of substantial danger to the national Before the Senate killed an amendment requiring the registration of all banning domestic production of cheap handguns and the licensing of their The offered by Senator Edward M. was tabled and thus killed by a 68-21 vote on the motion of Senator John L. floor manager of the to restore capital punishment under federal McClellan said Kennedy's amendment had no place In the and should be considered as separate In a related the House passed legislation 361 to 47 to combat aircraft Under the the death penalty would be imposed on some hijackers and authority would be provided to cut off air service with countries that do not cooperate with security The in debating the death penalty adopted an amendment under which hijackers and other criminals who had committed murder could escape the death penalty if they released hostages they were Earlier the Senate 47 to 41, an amendment by Senator Floyd K. to take the mandatory death sentence provisions out of the But adopted by an 87-0 vote was an amendment by Senator James L. to prohibit the execution of a pregnant Buckley's amendment would not prevent a death sentence from being carried out after the woman had given birth to her The most heated debate was over the amendment dealing with the release of It provided on assurances given by the attorney general in exchange for the release of a defendant could not be given a death sentence no matter how many persons he might have killed in carrying out a Kennedy and Hart emphasized that the attorney general would have full discretion on whether to give such assurances but said their amendment would put flexibility into the legislation and could help to save Enter Laughing AP Wirephoto Even though the First Lady is out of the the President is still guaranteed a certain amount of For the 1974 Maid of Kathy who came into tiie President's White House office Wednesday to promote the many benefits of cotton Ms. Raskin is a native of Litchfield Ariz. Saxbe Says Press Possible WASHINGTON - Attorney General William B. Saxbe suggested Wednesday that newsmen may have been the targets of government wiretaps during the Kennedy and Johnson But former President Johnson's attorney Ramsey declared never during his term of office from late 1966 through 1968. Saxbe told reporters he has reviewed a file of national security wiretaps from 1960 until 1973 and found such eavesdropping widespread during the previous two Democratic Justice Department spokesman John W. Hushen said later that Saxbe was referring to a list of wiretaps prepared by the FBI last summer at the request of then Attorney General Elliot L. Hushen said the list does not show whether newsmen were among those whose telephones were Saxbe said all of the taps were authorized by previous attorneys Clark said he approved no taps on but said it is possible one such case occurred before his Clark called it for Saxbe to suggest that newsmen were wiretap targets without offering specific evidence to back up his Saxbe said the file Is classified The attorney general said he offered the file to special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski because he thought it might have some bearing on investigation of Nixon administration wiretaps on four newsmen and 13 National Security Council But the attorney general said Jaworski replied that he already had the The list apparently Included details of more than 2,000 national security The White House has previously made public the numbers of taps employed from 1945 through 1972, and the figures for the Johnson and Nixon administrations range from a high of 260 in 1964 to a low of 82 in 1968. At one Saxbe flatly stated that newsmen were wiretap targets during the Kennedy and Johnson But at another he can't say that for Rodino Defends Request AP Wirephoto Rodino and Doar face newsmen Wednesday in WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday everything it has requested from the White House for its impeachment inquiry is relevant and should be Responding to White House criticism of the Representative Peter said the committee is prepared to the evidence if the White House refuses to supply it. hard stand in favor of the committee's right to evidence for its impeachment inquiry was fully supported by Representative Edward the committee's ranking requests made to date are very said Hutchinson at a joint news conference with White House should be totally cooperative with The two leaders of the impeachment panel said it was their hope a confrontation with the White House over the furnishing of evidence could be but that the constitutional authority the committee is operating under leaves the White House no room to refuse its Valley Deaths Vada 72, of Lloyd S. 57, of Details on page 26 the committee feels there is an absolute refusal on the part of the White House to said it I'm utilize its In the said committee counsels John Doar and Albert Jenner will continue to seek a solution to the problem with James St. Nixon's chief impeachment The news conference was prompted by statements Tuesday by White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler and presidential counselor Bryce Harlow alleging that the committee was seeking virtually unlimited access to White House The officials also seemed to be suggesting that the committee should decide what an impeachable offense is before Nixon should be required to give it any more Both viewpoints rejected by Hutchinson and the two committee Doar and Jenner also dismissed the possibility that there was any misunderstanding of the request by the White They said they met for 2\i hours Monday with St. Clair and Fred another White House and discussed the request in BIBLE SCHOOL Workshop and preview of standard VBS 7 PM Harrisonburg Sponsored by Valley is no question Mr. knows precisely what we are said Hutchinson said the White House suggestion that the committee define an impeachable offense before proceeding further would be a waste of Even if the committee could decide on a Hutchinson the members would not be bound by it. the he is going to have to define for himself whether the evidence supports a finding of an impeachable In a separate Republican National Chairman George Bush said the committee in effect forced a confrontation by making a blanket request for Today's Index Calendar 2 27 6 4 S Jeane 12 7 Local 15 8 Rural 18 22 Sunday School 13 TV 2 2 What's 27 Rodino said the committee has received about half of the tapes the White House has promised that were among the material already turned over to the Watergate grand at an earlier committee reportedly said he expected to have all of the material by the end of the Doar said he also received on Wednesday a list from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski of the evidence Jaworski had requested from the White House and been turned Doar refused to describe the nature of the The reluctance of the committee to move into confrontation with the White House was underscored by Rodino and Hutchinson in response to a confrontation said won't be because the committee initiates it. 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