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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1974
Page
1
New documentary evidence and transcripts portray President Nixon as worried and at times defiant amid Watergate. The seven volumes release offers no major new charges, but adds details from tapes, grand jury testimony, and White House material that illuminate the looming impeachment debate.
In Washington hundreds of armed police surround a basement cellblock and the U.S. District Courthouse as convicts Robert Jones and Frank Gorham hold seven hostages. One hostage released. demands include a flight to National Airport and an airplane. The Watergate plumbers trial moved. authorities seek safe resolution.
Washington AP John W. Dean III, former White House counsel, testified nine hours in closed session before the House impeachment committee. Lawmakers said Dean’s account of a Watergate cover-up at the highest White House levels remained largely intact after cross examination by James D. S. Clair, Nixon’s counsel. Representative Robert McClory called him a damaging witness as far as the President is concerned.
The jurors in the Plumbers trial begin deliberations on the guilt of John Ehrlichman and three others for the Ellsberg break in. The panel will receive judge Gesell's instructions before deciding verdicts amid the courthouse shift due to a hostage situation.
The Agriculture Department cut its 1974 wheat forecast to a record 1.9 billion bushels but cites drought excess rain and disease reducing yields. Corn prospects show a 6.4 billion bushel harvest planned, yet late planting and heavy rains threaten the crop and domestic prices.
Picket lines form at Mansfield Reformatory around 4 a.m. as guards join wildcat walkouts affecting four Ohio prisons. AFSCME locals plan statewide action with votes at Lima State Hospital and 12 mental institutions. Authorities consider disciplinary measures but no Ferguson Act action yet.
Washington reports a five tenths of one percent rise in the Wholesale Price Index driven by sharp increases in industrial goods. The gain ends eight months of larger moves and marks the first sub one percent rise since November as agricultural prices fell.
The United States agrees to recognize coastal nations rights to 200 mile exclusive zones for fishing and oil and supports extending territorial waters from three to 12 miles. John R. Stevenson, head of the U S delegation, reiterated the position at the UN Law of the Sea conference.
Police sources report Patricia Hearst and two Symbionese Liberation Army members may have returned to the San Francisco Bay area after a trip to Guatemala. A local TV station cited word they contacted underground political leaders there.
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