THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
TUESDAY
JULY 24,1973
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Nixon's Tapes Subpoenaed By Cox, Senate Committee
WASHINGTON—President Nixon nily rejected two official requests for Watergate-related presidential materials Monday and was slapped with subpeonies from the Senate Watergate committee and from the committee of the special Watergate prosecutor.
Two subpoenaes from the committee sought tape recorded presidential conversations and other White House documents. The subpoenae from the special prosecutor apparently sought only the tapes.
The subpoenaes were served almost simultaneously shortly after 5 p.m.
Lawrence time, to two White House lawyers who accepted them on Nixon's behalf. All the documents named the President.
THE SUBPOENAS were all to be answered by Tuesday, the White House said.
Earlier in the day Nixon had flatly refused to turn over to the committee and the prosecutor's office any of the tape released by the court. It noted the doctrine of separation of powers.
Both the committee and the prosecutor rejected that reasoning and announced the investigation.
Ozark Aircraft Plummets Down In Storm; 38 Confirmed Dead
ST. LOUIS—An Ozark Air Lines jetboat approaching St. Louis in a blunders灾情 storm crashed in a suburban residential area Monday night and there were 38 confirmed dead. The plane carried 42 passengers and three crew members. There were no reports of perishers on the ground. The pilot of the plane, Harvey Link, said from his stretcher that he thought the plane had flown through a tornado.
AIM Leaders Set for Powwow
WHITE OAK, Okla.-American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Vernon Bellcourt has arrived at the Indian-owned farm that will be the site of AIM's 5th national convention. Bellcourt arrived with Oklahoma AIM leaders from Tulsa, where they discussed shortening the schedulediday event. AIM leaders refused to discuss the invitation with reporters until a press conference slated for 10 a.m. today.
Butz Defends Big Grain Deal
WASHINGTON—Agricultural Secretary Earl Butz has denied that the 1972 sale of wheat to the Soviet Union is responsible for dramatically high U.S. food prices. Butz and his assistant repeated their insistence that the Agriculture Department had no knowledge of the massive wheat sale until it was announced by private grain dealers. In that regard, testimony by Butz and Asst. Secretary Carroll Brunhaver conflicted with that given Friday by a vice president of the nation's largest grain dealer.
Most K.C. Stores Up Prices
KANSAS CITY—People who put off their grocery shopping over the weekend found sharply higher prices on pork, chickens and eggs in most Kansas City super-markets. "They're working their heads off to get the prices up," said one customer as she collected a few items in a chain store. Customers at another big nation-wide store found an unusual offer: a $10 bill in a tall banner that Saturday had advertised fresh fryers at 49 cents each and still another chain outlet a young housewife noted the price: 69 cents a pound. "I put it right back down," she said. "We'll have beans."
Only 1 Survives Pan Am Crash
PAPEETE, Tahiti—Rescue boats with floodlights searched the sea off Tahiti Monday night for victims of the crash of a Los Angeles-bound Pan American jelenter. There was only one known survivor among the 79 persons on board. Twelve bodies were recovered from the water where the Boeing 707 crashed 90 seconds after departure from Papete.
Fire Engulfs Bogotan Building
BOGOTA, Colombia—Fire engulfed the 41-story Avianca Tower, Colombia's tallest building. At least five persons died and about 150 were injured. Helicopters flew in to pluck victims from the roof and upper terraces. Two persons jumped from the 13th floor to their deaths. The bodies of three people were found in the ruins of the $7 million building.
BELFAST—The British army eased its security clampdown in Belfast after a massive 48-hour operation to blunt terrorist strikes. Though more than 4,000 troops turned the city into a virtual ghost town, five persons were slain over the weekend. Troops found no arms or explosives in an elaborate network of roadblocks and spot checks following threats from both the Irish Republican Army and Protestant extremists who said they planned waves of killings and bombings.
Britons Ease Restrictions
Cloudiness Forecast
weeks ago the President said he would not turn over White House papers.
The weathermen say it will be cloudy all day and there are chances of thundershowers and floods today. Will you be in the upper 80% today?
Warren did not elaborate but apparently referred to letters delivered Monday to the Watergate committee and the special counsel who refused access to the tape recordings.
"THE WHITE HOUSE COUSE will examine the subpoenas," said Deputy White House Press Secretary Gerald R. Kerry in the context of the letters issued today.
The two subpoenas from the Watergate committee were delivered by Rufus Edmisten, a committee staff aide. Emerging from the meeting with Garment, Edmisten
Leaving the Old Executive Office Building here he served the subpoenas, Edinsten quoted committee chairman Sam Rutherford to tell him the tapes: "Hope springs eternal," he said.
"THE WHITE HOUSE counsel will examine the subpoenaes," Warren said. "Whatever is done will be in the context of the letters issued today."
He did not elaborate but apparently was referring to letters delivered to the Watergate committee and the special request for the requests for the White House tapes.
EARLER MONDAY, when declining to provide the tape, Nixon also apparently
The President said such a meeting at this time would be useless. The White House said later, however, the matter was still open.
"The tapes, which have been under my sole personal control, will remain so," Nixon said in a letter to Ervin. He also said that tapes from Erwin's tape was subject to misinterpretation.
NIXON SAID he had listened to a number of the tapes and they would not help answer the central questions on the Watergate leading the extent of his involvement.
The rejection to the special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, came in a letter
from a consulting White House counsel, Charles Alan Wright. "I am instructed by the President to inform you that it will not be possible to make available to you the recordings that you have requested," the letter said.
IN A STATEMENT, Cox said that any presidential claim to privilege in withholding the tapes "is without legal foundation," and said his effort to obtain the tapes and other documentary evidence was proper.
"They may tend to show that there was criminal activity or that there was none."
"They may tend to show the guilt of particular individuals—or their innocence. The one clear point is that the tapes are evidence bearing directly upon whether a defendant has been guilty of a conspiracy to obstruct justice, among high government officials," Cox said.
ERVIN READ Nixon's letter to the committee rejecting the request for the tapes. In the letter, Nixon wrote that "as in any verbatim recording of informal conversations, they (the tapes) contain comments that persons with different perspectives and motivations would inevitably interpret in different ways."
"If release of the tapes would settle the central questions at issue in the Watergate inquiries, then their disclosure might serve a substantial public interest that would have to be weighed very carefully against the negatives of disclosure." Nixon wrote.
The Senate committee had been seeking access to the tapes for the dual purpose of ironing out discrepancies in the testimony of witnesses at the Watergate hearings and defining the extent of Nixon's knowledge of the conspiracy -in and the subsequent, futile cover-up.
THE FACT IS that the tapes would not really settle the central issues before your court order. The fact is, the public nobody known, I personally listen to the number of them. The tapes are entirely written on vinyl.
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Historical Perspective
Dyche Hall, one of the oldest buildings on the KU campus, was built in 1901 to house the collections and diorama of North American mammals of Lewis Lindsay Dyche. The diorama appeared at the 1839 World's Fair in Chicago.
Dyche, who graduated from KU in 1884, returned to KU in 1903 as curator of mammals and professor of systematic zoology. The building was declared unsafe in 1932 and was closed for repairs until 1941. Dyche died in 1915.
Strachan Puts Blame on Haldeman
Associated Press Writer
BY HARRY F. ROSENTHAI
WASHINGTON—As the Senate Watergate committee moved Monday toward a constitutional showdown with President Nixon over tape recordings, the Haldeman at the center of key political intelligence and Watergate-related activities.
Haldeman, the President's former chief of staff, is expected to be called by the
committee later in the week. John Ehrlichman, second only to Haldeman in the former white House hierarchy, is scheduled to testify Tuesday.
Gordon Strachan, a former Haldenman aide, told the committee that he destroyed Watergate files at Haldenman's direction, prepared a meeting agenda listing a $300,000 political intelligence operation, and as early as 1971 got approval from him to
pay for "dirty tricks" in Nixon's re-election campaign.
STRACHAN, FLEISHING out his prepared statement of last Friday, called previous committee witness Jeb Sturtmacher a lier. He said he believed John Koehler to truth when Dean testified that he told President Nixon about the Watergate cover-up.
"Magruder has told various versions of the Watergate story, many of them
believed, to the FBI, three grand juries, original trial jury, original prosecutors, attorneys and other officials at the Comptroller's election-election of the President." Stranford said.
"Apparently the story he old them was all along, yet they believed him," he said.
Strachan said he believed Magruder, the re-election campaign deputy, led about 20,000 people in his district.
Survey of Lawrence Stores
Pork, Poultry Prices Skyrocketing
By CONNIE PARISH, JAY CURTIS
u CONNIE DEAKMOI
Kansas Staff Writer
At least one chain store in Lawrence is rationing the amount of bacon a customer buys at a grocery store.
yet, but prices of pork and poultry products are skyrcketing.
A spokesman for Safety said Monday they had had to ration bacon to two pounds a customer since last Friday. He said they
expected the rationing to continue until the end of the summer.
A SPOKESMAN FOR Dillon's, 1740 Mass, said they have no bacon or chicken to ration since they are completely out of both. He said they expect a shipment in the middle of the week and don't anticipate rationing then.
Howard Kielker, head of the meat department at Dillon's 312th St. said, "We are really pleased."
A spokesman for the Rusty's IGA stores said, "We haven't gone to rationing yet and don't anticipate it, though we may eventually have to limit purchases."
&P SUPERMARKET was not rationing fryers, eggs or bacon Monday.
"We're selling any amount to anyone who wants to buy them," a spokesman for A&P and Nestle said.
Falley's is not rationing any foods yet, a spokesman there said. He said he sent his orders Monday and that they weren't cut more than usual.
He said he did run short of bacon, fryers, and eggs during the weekend because "people are going crazy shopping. They've got them all running around. We were going to run out of these items."
Harwood Wholesale Meats serves mainly wholesale customers such as restaurants and drive-ins and has only a small retail trade. But the spokesman said that so far he had had ample supplies for his wholesale customers. His order for fryers was cut in half, he said, but he still had enough to satisfy his customers.
MOST LAWRENCE neighborhood grocery stores that were contacted were not rationing pork or poultry products yet, though a spokesman for the Country Cornery Grocery said they don't sell chicken and eggs anymore because they can't get them.
Though most stores haven't had to ration products, some observers think that higher food prices will act to voluntarily ration amounts customers will buy.
"Bacon cost me $1.20 a pound this morning so I will have to sell it for $1.50 a pound."
AN INCREASE OF 66 cents for pork toun was reported at Rusty's. the price is now $1.75 a pound. The cost of eggs has also increased. Medium eggs, which cost 65
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THE LIBERATED WAILING Wall, a San Francisco singing group affiliated with Jaws for Jesus, will give a free concert at 1 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium. The group will play at 7 o'clock tonight at South Park or at the First Presbyterian Church in case of rain.
"PORT OF SHADOWS," the story of a man who commits murder in a fit of anger and then tries to escape to a new life, will be heard on "o'clock tonight" in Woodford Auditorium.
THE SAUNA in Robinson Gymnastium will be open to women from 5 till 7 tonight.