Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - June 6, 1974, Winona, Minnesota grand jury vofe disclosed Nixon named as unindicted coconspirator hv ttw defendants revealed much sooner had not starting the court shouk WASHINGTON UPI A federal grand jury voted last February to name President Nixon as an unindicted coconspirator in the Watergate coverup it was disclosed today The President's impeachment lawyer James D St Clair told reporters he was informed of the development three or four weeks ago by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski St Clair made the comment after the Washington Post and the Washington said the grand jury but did not the President and others in a sealed indictment returned March 1 against White House and Nixon campaign aides The Los Angeles Times which first reported the grand jury wanted to name Nixon said Jaworski persuaded the jurors not to mention the President even as an unindicted Asked about the reports St Clair said when Nixon was told that the grand jury wanted to name him the President said They just don't have the evidence and they are wrong The names of the seven persons indicted including top former presidential advisers Haldeman John and John N Mitchell were revealed March 1 No names of were disclosed Later the grand jury turned over voluminous material it used in its investigation including any evidence relating to Nixon to the House Judiciary Committee for its impeachment inquiry The newspapers cited unnamed sources as the basis for their reports The Post and said the jurors actually wanted to indict the President but named him as an unindicted coconspirator instead told them was some question whether they had power to indict a President As an unindicted Nixon would not face criminal penalties St Clair said today The President said they just don't have all the evidence and they are wrong Interviewed as he arrived for a closed session of the Judiciary Committee St Clair I don't think the evidence supports it It wouldn't be the first time a grand jury was and it has no legal effect St Clair added that is very confident that the true facts will come out and that he will be exonerated The Washington newspapers said Nixon was named in sealed documents turned over to Federal District Judge John J Sirica but said the House Judiciary Committee was not told of the listing Tht Post said the grand jury's findings were relayed to attorneys for the defendants May 6 at a closed session with Jaworski and Sirica The judge was said to have ordered those present to maintain secrecy The meeting was in motions by ths defendants demanding that the prosecution supply them with a of particulars They asked for names of all persons alleged to have conspired with the defendants named in the indictment On Wednesday Jaworski delayed complying with the defense request for names of A spokesman for Jaworski was quoted as saying when the judge orders us to file it we'll file it Even after filing the information could be kept secret Jaworski said in court Wednesday the Watergate cover-up would have been revealed much sooner had not top government lied from the beginning as part of an extensive pattern of al actions In a batch of legal briefs filed in U.S District Court day Jaworski also argued against dismissing conspiracy charges against six men including former Attorney eral John N Mitchell and presidential John D Ehrlichman on grounds of pretrial publicity But Jaworski suggested that if impeachment hearings or a Senate trial are being televised when Bit Sept 9 court trial a Cloudy with rain possible through Friday Year of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA 55987 THURSDAY JUNE 6 1974 the should consider very seriously whether a continuance would be in order In the more than 300 pages ol briefs filed in response to defense motions he also offered to give the six cover-up defendants relevant parts of presidential tapes of talks ia which they participated But he drew the line providing them access to other presidential tapes original grand jury testimony ments of unindicted tors and Central Intelligence Agency documents they claim are relevant r No Cents In Waiting Let DN Want Ads Save You 1 Sections 20 Pages 15 To Israel Syria Last POWs return home By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Wildly cheering crowds of relatives and friends in both Damascus and Tel Aviv crashed police barriers today to welcome home the last ers of war exchanged under the troop separation pact The release cleared the way for withdrawing troops and weapons from the Golan Heights and the establishment of a buffer zone patrolled by UN forces In Damascus 500 police used water hoses to disperse a chaotic mob of spectators who surged around one of the two Red jumbo jets bringing back 382 POWs from Tel Aviv Witnesses said it took police 45 minutes to clear a passage for buses to drive to the plane steps and take the returning prisoners aboard While Syrian police were still trying to disperse the crowds the second plane landed and parked at a remote spot on the airfield Police got the returned prisoners aboard buses and army trucks before the crowd could approach it The Syrians and other Arab POWs were taken to an undisclosed reception area to avoid further crowd confusion In Tel Aviv the 56 returning Israeli soldiers were greeted by about 800 relatives and friends who shouted their names banged cymbals and danced as they filed off the plane at Ben Gurion International Airport Some the families broke through the police and mobbed their returning sons as they got off the plane All the Israeli soldiers ap to be in good condition and strode off the plan unassisted Two of the Syrian prisoners returned to earlier in the morning had t be helped aboard the Swissair 747 jumbo jet takin them to Damascus Yitzhak a dark skinned Jew wh was captured in the first day of fighting said he and th other prisoners received goo treatment from the Syrians ii the last days their captivity At the he said the treated us very nicely but after we got our packages from home The first five month there was nothing They kept u in one big cell with on atrine In Damascus Syrian officials saw the prisoners said they tired and in poor This shows how they were in one ment official said They come lack to us in this poor condition while the prisoners we sent to srael were fresh and well It's an exciting day for Defense Minister mon Peres said as the Red Cross airliner carrying the Israeli POWs taxied to a stop I hope this generation has peace a little bit of quiet Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said it's good that we liave come to this moment LEADING THE CHEERS President Nixon leads the cheering during graduation ceremonies at the U.S Naval Academy Wednesday in Annapolis The hat he holds was one of those tossed into the air after the commencement ceremony at the academy AP Nixon meets with Arabs In Damascus Syrian officials took Israeli prisoners on a tour of the old sector of the capital before sending them home A Syrian government official said the Israeli prisoners left Damascus in a very good condition after they were given extensive medical care and good treatment He said Syrian prisoners released by Israel earlier this month arrived in a miserable state with dirty clothes and infected injuries The way our prisoners were treated in Israel contradicted with all human principles and the Geneva and other tional he said On the C A among economic advisers for major reductions in government spending in an effort to control in- story page 2a A strike by Winona County Highway ment employes the first strike by public employes in county history appears imminent story page Cancer researchers are for rare freshwater shrimps they say could aid in the development of a cancer story page The nation's governors have endorsed a far-reaching ethics proposal story page men who led allied in the Uay invasion remember how it was on their est day stories page Q The United States plans regular shuttle orbital carrying scientists from many nations beginning in 1979 story page Ib Bolivia coup falls through anniversary Normandy observance notes D-Day invasion WASHINGTON ident Nixon is a high-level Arab delegation to the White House as he ues to stress improved U.S re- tations with the Middle East nations be will tour this month The group headed by Prince Fahd Saudi Arabia's interior minister and second deputy prime minister was invited toi Nixon's Oval Office for mid- morning talks to be followed by a working luncheon A White House spokesman said the discussion would ter on ways to expand Saudi Arabian cooperation m the economic industrial and technological fields and In the area of the dom's defense requirements Prince Fahd's try is one of five Middle East nations Nixon will tour June 18 The others are Egypt rael Syria and Jordan In a major foreign policy ad dress at Naval Academy com- ceremonies Nixon Bald Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger's negotiation of disengagement re- moved a roadblock to Middle East peace The President spoke too of his Soviet summit talks ning June 27 as he cautioned that the United States should not seek to involve itself in the internal affairs of other tries In an obvious to the controversy over immigration of Soviet Jews Nixon said We would not welcome the in- of other countries in our domestic affairs and we cannot expect them to be when we seek to inter- vene directly in theirs Nixon is seeking al approval of most favored tion treatment for the Soviet Union but a bloc led by Sen Henry A Jackson has stalemated the trade biil in an effort to force relaxation of Soviet immigration policies Nixon met later Wednesday with seven U.S Jewish leaders who reported the President re- affirmed his concern for the plight of Soviet Jewry and im- plied he would raise the issue with Kremlin leaders in the summit talks By ELIAS ANTAR ST LAURENT France AP War veterans and officials from seven tries mark the of D-Day today with a ceremony at the vast U.S military cemetery near this Normandy village Almost servicemen are buried in the cemetery on a cliff overlooking ha Beach the bloodiest of five beaches the Allies stormed on June 6 1944 Gen Omar Bradley who commanded the Americans at Omaha and adjoining Utah Beach heads tha American delegation to the two-day celebration About Allied veterans of the landing are attending tha observance the biggest ever of the invasion Bradley at 81 the living five star general in the U.S Army attended a dinner Wednesday night and the dedication of a museum at Ranville but missed er events Aides said he found the pace tiring and had to rest Ceremonies were held Wednesday at the eastern end of the invasion front where the British Canadians and a French unit landed at am on D-Day Two other events were scheduled today to com- American feats of arms on A unit of U.S Rangers stationed in Germany was to reenact the climb 225 Rangers made under ering fire up a cliff See related stories page to capture a German strong point at Pointe du Hoc The men the 2nd Ranger talion used ropes and wooden ladders borrowed from the London Fire gade to scale the crags Some surviving Rangers were on hand to watch the re-enactment Some 120 civilian and parachutists were to jump into the of Ste Mere where the first American para- troopers from the and Airborne Divisions landed in France COURTESY CALL United Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim calls on former Israeli Premier Golda day at her home in Jerusalem Waldheim has been touring Middle East AP By ALBERTO ZUAZO LA PAZ Bolivia UPI Bolivia's armed forces today interrogated two army colonels who led a bloodless short-lived rebellion against the ment of President Hugo zer The two officers surrendered Wednesday when loyal ment troops swiftly crushed their bid to take over the presidential palace in downtown La Paz Within hours the government said the nation was cairn The rebellion represented the first serious threat to the conservative Banzer who pled the leftist military ment of Gen Juan Jose Torres three years ago The government ordered the two rebel leaders held for questioning in the armed forces headquarters in the Miraflores district of the capital but promised them eventual safe conduct out of the country Four other military men and 8 prominent civilian politician took refuge in foreign sies The government said two army regiments joined by a group of young instructors at the military college took part In bloodless coup attempt Several hundred officers and soldiers with 10 armored cars Wednesday marched 10 miles from a suburban garrison to the presidential palace in downtown La Pax issuing an ultimatum for Earner's ouster The troops rammed in the door of the palace with an armored car and occupied the building for 15 minutes The rebels backed down and left without a shot being fired when troops in the presidential escort challenged them Banzer was not in the building at the time of the uprising He had left on a visit to southern Bolivia and kept in j touch with the capital by I telephone COMMEMORATION General of the Army Omar Bradley and his wife right carry flowers Wednesday at wreath laying ceremony at Ranville cemetery hi Bayeux France marking the start of ceremonies rating the anniversary of the landing of Allied forces in Normandy At left is Gen Sir Richard Gale former com- mander of the British 6th Airborne Division AP U.S may have gone bankrupt By LEONARD CURRY WASHINGTON UPI Tha federal government may bava quietly gone bankrupt this week It's only a said a Treasury official tually we can hold on for about two weeks but it gets hairy The U.S Treasury probably reached the legal debt ceiling of billion last Saturday and depleted its cash balance Wednesday No one knows officially yet because the government reports what it has spent about sis days after the money is gone But the Treasury Department said Wednesday the debt had risen to billion and cash on hand had shrunk to billion last Friday When the debt ceiling im- posed by Congress is reached the government can't borrow any more money But no one expects it to go out of business The Strategic Air Command will stay on guard the Secret Service will protect the President members of Congress will drone on in floor debate and the ture Department will pecan reports If the federal government has gone temporarily bankrupt a geries of steps will be taken by Treasury Secretary William E Simon These will include orders to halt sales of Series B and H savings bonds Treasury bills and other securities In order to raise money tha Treasury would then call on the Export-Import Bank to repay its loans from the United States The whole problem stems from prolonged congressional of the administration's proposal to raise the debt ceiling to billion The passed the House but stalled in the Senate where liberals are trying to win approval of tax reform ments I In any case if the ment can juggle its books until July 1 it will be in the clear A new fiscal year and a new spending budget begin then opening up a new flow of cash
