The Times Recorder (Newspaper) - June 3, 1974, Zanesville, Ohio Televising Of Impeachment Hearings WASHINGTON Americans who planned to spend their summer watching impeachment hearings on television may as well make other The House Judiciary tee faces so many legal problems in opening its to the public that there appeared to be little chance any portion of the deliberations leading up to a mid-July vote on impeachment of President Nixon would be The White House has com- that the committee is dragging out the proceedings and wants them to the One of Nixon's strongest supporters on the Rep. Lawrence J. said Sunday he was troubled by the committee's matter is so important that we should be meeting five or six days a Hogan can't imagine the justification of dragging it out this Hogan and Rep. Jerome R. one of the strongest proponents of im- appeared on TV's Face the Nation They agreed if impeachable offenses are to be they will come in the Watergate The committee this week will begin linking into other areas of its inquiry The panel voted 23 to 15 last Thursday not to open the hearings this Tuesday as originally On Chairman Peter W. Rodino decided that none of the committee's evidence would be made public until the panel had gone over all the and Special Counsel John M. Doar estimated they would need two to three more weeks to cover all material on hand and longer il any ad- matter is provided by the White government courts or other congressional Only then will the committee decide if witnesses will be called to testify to fill in gaps the panel has determined exist in its Under House rules a witness could bar television coverage during his testimony The final phase of debating and voting on articles ol im- to be recommended to the full House also can be probably would be- without television since that would take place in a committee and unanimous consent of the 38 members is required to permit television Among other legal problems facing the and chief GOP sel Albert E advised the panel they cannot ly divide the public material I com the confidential material they wish to present to the committee and thus would have great difficulty with open Republican porters of open hearings voted in favor ol closure on the argument that open hearings would make it difficult to pick a jury in the Ellsberg break-in and might generate publicity prejudicial to the rights of the defendants is a major problem in granting witnesses from his testimony being used against many prospective witnesses are under indictment or in- II Hie committee decided it vs anted to grant issue on which it is would have to give the special prosecutor 10 days to decide what he wants to do about it. Then he would have to be given another 20 days to present his evidence to the grand jury if he Doar and have been directed to report by the end this week on the constitutional problems involved in calling wit nesses Today's Chuckle When a man talks about the good old he usually means the Earl The Times Recorder Today's Weather Partly cloudy and mild with highs in upper 70s. Fair tonight with lows in the 50s. on Page 7-A) 110th Vol. 153 18 Pages Your Newspaper Ohio June 3, 1974 15 Cents Israel Discuss Disengagement Pact I I N By United Press International Syrian and Israeli generals in Geneva Sunday held their second meeting through a Finnish go-between to work out the technical details of the military disengagement ment signed In the Middle Israeli troops on the Lebanese frontier reported killing two Arab guerrilla infiltrators late day who were carrying explosives and enough food for five days In a guerrilla spokesman confirmed the two guerrillas were But he said the raiding parly heavy losses on the Israeli spokesmen reported no casualties of their They said it was assumed the in- I ill rat ion was the latest in a senes aimed at duplicating I he May 15 attack on that left 31 persons The cease-fire on the Golan Heights front with Syria was reported holding with the next prisoner exchange Plans Trips To Middle Russia Nixon Reviews Tours Looking To The Countryside Becky 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ford of 128 Ha mime avenue and Chuck 14, son of Mr. and Mrs James Smith of 1177 Wheeling are shown as they gate serenely in the direction of the lush countryside which surrounds Zanesville from atop their perch on the avenue The cool which drove many city residents indoors the past appear to have drifted eastward and the weatherman predicts steadily increasing temperatures during the by Larry By U. 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Automakers Safety Air Bag Delay Sought DETROIT U.S automakers will ask the federal government Monday to back off on its demand for safety air bags to be installed on all 1977 model cars General the nation's biggest will present its arguments for a delay in testimony which has the backing of the other three members of the automotive world's GM. which has built about 4.500 cars equipped with the air bags fitted under the dashboard for public sale since says studies and field ence so far do not support making passive restraints for GM had hoped to sell air cars this year on its and Four of the cars it sold with air bags have been in accidents severe enough to cause the air cushion to inflate of them involving a vehicle hitting another car at about 70 miles per hour GM and Ford for the past two years have been running test fleets with more than air cars They have traveled more than 64 million miles with 520 reported dents of them causing the air bags to deploy There has never been a death in a car with an air bag restraint system After much the Department has proposed making passive re- straints mandatory equipment by Sept 1, 1976. The original requirement for the devices that require no action on the part of the driver or his passengers was to take effect Jan. 1, 1973. GM's filed on the final day for comment on the new will follow its News Digest Daley Undergoes Operation CHICAGO Mayor Richard J. Daley Sunday underwent arterial surgery designed to prevent a massive Gunmen Kill Father Of Seven BELFAST Gunmen armed with submachine guns shot and killed a Roman Catholic father of seven Sunday as he stood at the back door of his mother's shop in a Northern Ireland seaside Final Cabinet Meeting Held JERUSALEM Golda Meir's cabinet held its final meeting Sunday over fruit bananas and nuts and heaped praise on Mrs. Meir on the eve of her turning the prime over to a man 24 years her Yitzhak Heavy Battles Reported SAIGON Government forces attacked Communist troops from two directions 24 miles north of Saigon Sunday in the heaviest battle since the 1973 military sources Cost Overruns Charged WASHINGTON Sen. William charged Sunday that the Pentagon is experiencing cost overruns on 55 major weapons North Vietnam Aid Falls WASHINGTON Russia and Chinese arm shipments to North Vietnam fell sharply in 1973 and U.S. military aid to Indochina ran at eight times the Communist bloc according to a new defense estimate made public by Rep. Les Strike Impact Due NEW YORK The full impact of the first nationwide garment strike was expected to be felt Monday when more than 100.000 workers strike boys and men's clothing makers on orders of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Guerrillas Agree To Discussions DAR ES Tanzania African guerrillas who have fought a 10-year war of independence in Mozambique agreed Sunday to open discussions with Portuguese authorities on for the stand taken in March testimony by Ernest S. vice president for before a Senate Commerce Committee of the proven of belt the current lack of firm data on the overall effectiveness of air and the cost of these complex restraint GM does not now support a narrowing of customer Starkman The auto industry's position is opposed by the insurance Nine insurance com- panies and two insurance in- dustry trade associations representing another 200 com- have urged the Assad Views NEW YORK In the first interview he has granted since the gagement Syrian dent Hafez Assad told Newsweek magazine under proper terms a just peace can and will according to the zine Assad does not think Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's work in the Middle East is whose personal ion of the secretary is good and Kissinger's enormous efforts and our talks were always It could not have been done without him We had but they were not intensive More talks with Kissinger are In answer to Newsweek Assad said Israel has taken a positive step by agreeing to withdraw from Arab although this cannot be viewed as a ment to stand lirm on passive restraint passive system offers the best potential for ing crash deaths and mainly because larger bers of drivers fail to wear the lap and shoulder even in cars equipped with the new interlock said the American Mutual Insurance Alliance CAMP Md. President Nixon spent a rainy Sunday at his mountaintop retreat studying preliminary preparations for his Middle East swing and Moscow mit trip later this month Administration officials in- Nixon will formally announce the dates of his tour of Arab capitals and Israel some time this An ad- vance team of protocol and communications experts was expected to leave Washington Monday lo make There were indications the President's hope of starling a tour by next weekend has slipped a but the trip still was expected before the Moscow summit meeting which opens June 27. Nixon's first expected stop in the Mediterranean area is Presidential stops also are planned for Saudi and possibly Iran and Invitations have come in from several Arab countries II would be the first time an American president has been in Egypt since Franklin D. velt attended the Cairo Big Three meeting with Winston Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang during World War II Nixon will be accompanied lo the Mideast by wife who was described as eager lo help her husband's reign policy achievement by gelling among Ihe people Nixon's round of mil with Soviet nist parly leader Leonid I Brezhnev is lo on expanding Ihe of with the possibility an agreement will be reached on Igniting underground nuclear rests An understanding ing offensive nuclear weapons appeared less but has not been ruled Nixon also would like to travel to Moscow with the full promise of improved U.S. trade treatment for the Soviet Union lhal depends on whal if any Congress takes on the issue in the From Moscow was word lhal Nixon visil Valla name which evokes to Americans Ihe posl World War II the ailing Roosevelt and Stalin White House sources have indicated Nixon will visit Ihe Black Sea bul declined lo pinpoint il to Yalta The President and Pal and friend Charles G. Rebozo flew to the Western Maryland mountain Saturday They returned to Washington by helicopter Sunday press Ge- rald L. Warren said Nixon and was working foreign policy preparing for the Moscow summit and reviewing reports from the Middle East later this U N troops from Austria and Peru stood by to move in the Israeli and Syrian In with Gen Ensio ol Finland acting as neutral chairman and Ihe United Soviel Union and Egypt as Ihe Syrians and Israelis began work on a troop and weapon withdrawal As at their first meeting on Maj. Gen. of Israel and Gen of Syria pointedly did nol acknowledge each by or shakes but spoke only They did nol address each other others present at the meeting The meeting at the Palais des Nations in European headquarters of the United began at a.m. and was lo run all day wilh a break for Lifting Of U. S. Oil Embargo Reaffirmed Carter Predicts Nixon Will Ignore Supreme Court Wash. Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia said Sunday he believes President Nixon knows the tapes will prove him guilty and will ignore any Supreme Court or Congressional order to yield them for the impeachment inquiry personally feel the President is and that the recent evidence would prove Carter is my own belief that the President has made up his mind definitely not to release any more evidence I take him at his word on that think he's made a decision that the best grounds to face impeachment charges is on the failure to release even if demanded by the Supreme Court or the Senate itself during an impeachment trial I personally believe that will be the grounds on which he is ultimately removed from Carter and five other governors were in- on national television the as the 1974 National Governors Conference opened four days of sessions here All six including two said Nixon should yield the tapes subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee and five of the six Tom McCall of Oregon dissenting said they favored the impeachment process rather than a presidential resignation to resolve the Watergate In addition to a and a the governors at the one- hour panel interview were Democrats Wendell Anderson of Daniel Walker of Illinois and Wendell Ford of Kentucky and Republican Dan the Washington State host and National Governors Conference Carter said he believed Nixon when the President said he would relinquish no more evidence to either the Judiciary Committee or lo Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon and that was in itself an impeachable act The maverick who is leaving office after two said Nixon give them everything they want or step down as President But he was the only governor to oppose im- over resignation He said that in a regular court of law Nixon would have been able to obtain a change of venue from Washington and that his defense lawyers would be able to disqualify all 100 senators who would be the jury in an impeachment trial with the you have any preconceptions about this Impeachment would be spinning of McCall said and ordeal the nation can't He said impeachment will be an emotional issue and the President will not be judged on the evidence presented to the House and Senate but mood of the nation at the time of any is a completely ludicrous he said who has talked about forming a independent party that a Democratic national ticket in 1976 with Sen Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov George Wallace of Alabama would the height of It would be completely McCall said Americans have demonstrated that they dislike both political parties in 1972 the Democratic candidate was beaten worse than any other in the current President is and the office of the presidency is CAIRO Arab tries decided Sunday to keep their oil ban on the Netherlands but reaffirmed an earlier decision lo continue fuel ex- ports to the United A special meeting of Arab oil ministers overruled Algerian arguments thai the oil ban on Holland be lifted alter Saudi Arabia maintained its stand on the matter In the world's major oil producing nations mended to their meeting later this month in that current oil prices remain frozen for the third quarter of this year but that government taxes on Western oil companies be in- creased to prevent them from making exorbitant Nine Arab oil producers Abu Saudi Syria and Kuwait meeting here decided there was no need to change their previous decision on ing the oil ban against the Netherlands and lifting the ban against the United They will meet again here July 10. A conference spokesman said no actual vote was taken on the Dutch and a similar ban on Arab oil lo South Rhodesia and Portugal would remain in Conference sources said eria spoke out in favor of lifting the ban Holland bul Saudi Ihe ex- porter in Ihe Middle opposed the In the Economic Commission of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries met on the fourth day of its discussions to set oil prices after July I OPEC sources said Ihe commission recommended to keep the crude oil price at dollars per barrel as set at an OPEC conference in Teheran 2. Aide To Nixon Can Perform Exorcisms Food Cost Relief Seen WASHINGTON sumers in many parts of the world are finally getting some relief from the past year's boom in food an Agriculture Department report indicated The report from the ment's Foreign Agricultural Service included some survey data showing food in 14 major capital cities generally rose between March and Other data also show that for the first time in more than food price increases in major have been smaller than gains in other con- sumer the report many of the factors thai led lo higher prices last year are less likely to the market this officials They said big crops in many major producing countries are primarily responsible for the improved consumer The FAS survey of prices of 14 separate food items in ihe 14 world capitals indicated that median prices for 10 of the boneless loin pork chops and higher than in March Only less chuck roast and were Two white bread and were un- changed from March According to the the median price of boneless sirloin rose from a pound in March to a record in early May Prices in Tokyo leaped from a pound in March to in In Buenos the survey boneless sirloin in May remained at the controlled 69 cents a pound level shown in March Officials that many meat items were not available in Buenos Aires supermarkets The survey showed boneless sirloin in Washington up from in March to 59 a pound in May despite the fact that U S. beef prices generally have declined in recent Officials said their spot made by purchasing single in does not necessarily conform to national trends The 14-city shopping survey showed prices for some items differ widely around the world In for bacon in May was priced at a pound compared with 94 cents in one Washington bul boneless sirloin was only 14 a pound compared wilh in 59 in Washington and in Stock holm White bread prices ranged from 21 cents a load in Buenos Aires to 55 cents in 33 cents in 62 cents in Brasilia and 68 cents in Stockholm NEW YORK The Rev John the Jesuit priest who works as a White House speech says he is available to perform The aide to President Nixon said in an interview published in People magazine released though I work at the White House I am available for and McLaughlin added thai he had never as yet performed an exorcism the time could come been inclined to look at the Judicial the 47- year-old priest said in an apparent reference to the legal problems of Nixon and several one-time Presidential aides defense ol Nixon's use of profanity in the While House Watergate scripts and his own residing in the plash Watergate complex with his basset hound he describes as and have thrust him into controversy Index Page Farm Sports Women's Bul his religious superior said thai who look Ihe Jesuit vow of will be allowed to keep his job and its earthly trappings as long as he time off every year for prayer and reflection The Very Rev Robert T. Jesuit provincial of New said in Boston that he and McLaughlin and and and individually prayed over these mailers raised in recent have decided wilh Father McLaughlin thai he will fulfill this annual spiritual ment when his schedule mits Ho work wilh the government has certain unique aspects which may require a degree of flexibility in his 1 am now although this flexibility is not it is given his special Mclaughlin would hay only that he had been in contact with Father Cleary want to sec privacy of Ihe Jesuit he said Mclaughlin joined the House staff in 1971 after an unsuccessful race as for the U S Senate against Sen John 0 D-R I. In Ihe People magazine m- McLaughlin was quoted as saying he regarded celibacy as obsolete and he looks forward to the day when women can become priests He said has a fascination with power which he described as as great an emotional experience as making love and it might not be as short term The made up of finance officials from OPEC suggested that taxes levied against Western oil companies be in- creased from 55 to 87 per cent to gel a bigger share of profits from crude OPEC officials said oil companies were earning about Irom each barrel of crude oil compared to 50 cents a barrel before the energy wants to prevent oil companies from making excess profits at the expense of the the spokesman OPEC members are Abu In- Saudi Arabia and They produce 85 per cent of world oil Waldie Says Nixon Made Ethnic Slur WASHINGTON Rep. Jerome R. D- suid Sunday he heard President Nixon make an ethnic slur on a White House tape recording that is in the possession of Ihe House Judiciary a member of the panel which is conducting an investigation into Nixon's ble said that any question of a he heard Nixon make references thai were in the nature of a on a tape recording of Feb. 28, 1973. Waldie did nol say who the President was talking with at the time nor would he repeat exactly what was matler how insensitive the listener you could nol interpret that language the other than an ethnic Waldie said Responding to spokesman Gerald L. Warren the White House's previous statements lhal the tapes contain no ethnic or racial The issue of ethnic references was first raised last month when The New York Times reported that Nixon had used ihe and while talking with his former John W. Dean III J Fred the special denied allegation during a the Nation appearance on May 12 Earnings Cited TOKYO Toyota Motor Co. wait moid profitable corporation in inc. 1973 fiscal year ending March wilh of 1234 the financial newspaper Ninon reported Monday
