Nixon Still Confident After Triple Whammy, Haig Savs
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon returned from California last night with Alexander M. Hag, Jr., his chief of staff, saying Nixon has suffered a "triple whammy" in the past week that makes his chances of avoiding impeachment by the House "more uncertain."
Chatting with five newsmen air Air Force One, Haigh said, "We have suffered some losses this week and some very severe losses, quite obviously."
However, Haag said recent developments, so far as Nixon was concerned, have not 'changed one
Haiga, a former Army four-star general, obviously reflecting a reassessment of the impeachment outlook by Nixon and key advisers, cited the following development as a "tritle whammy":
iota his sense of self confidence and sense of determination to see this thing through."
- Wide coverage of a "rehash of evidence" by the House Judiciary Committee, which he said was "costly psychologically and in the attitude of the American people and members of Congress."
- Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling directing Nixon to surrender 64 additional Watergate tapes,
which he said "must have a psychological impact on any private citizen assessing these matters."
—The vote by six Republican members of the Judiciary Committee to join committee Democrats in adopting one recommended article of impeachment against the President.
Press Secretary Ron L. Ziegler said of Nixon, "His spirits are good and he is confident."
Asked if Nixon would consider resigning, Hagig said, "at this juncture, I just don't expect it." As in the past, he said the President invaded "decidedly the basis of the best interests of the American people."
Haig said Nixon would be meeting this morning with two of his Watergate lawyers, James D. St. Clair and J. Fred Buzhard, and with Hag, to begin a personal "review of materials" to be turned over to U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica in line with the Wednesday Supreme Court order.
Higher several times emphasized that Nixon would above all else "continue performing his functions as an executive." The point is to illustrate
his time between official business and im-peachment-related concerns in a way that would be unacceptable.
The committee voted 27-11 Saturday evening to send to the House of Representatives a nine-section document recommending Nixon's removal from office and obstruction of justice in the Watergate cover-up.
Nixon aides said the President was confident that the charges would be rejected by the full House.
Ziegler said there was no surprise at the White House about the Judiciary Committee decision.
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Investigators Say Wheat Deal Aided Inflation
Senate investigators said yesterday that Agriculture Department handling of the massive U.S. wheat sale to the Soviet Union wasted millions of tax dollars and brought Americans sharply higher food prices. The grain sale, largest in recent years, is the Nixon administration's policy of easing tensions with the Soviet Union.
Red Forces Continue Fighting, Shell Base
Communist-led forces launched their second shelling attack in 10 days against the Dao Nang air base, field reports said. Rockets also hit several nearby district towns. The South Vietnamese say Hanoi has launched a general offensive, but Western diplomats said the fighting was an attempt to keep the war going and to prevent the Saigon government from working on its struggling economy.
U.S. Coast Guard Seizes Cuban Shrimp Boat
The United States Coast Guard seized a Cuban shrimp trawler for allegedly fishing in territorial waters off the Texas coast, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The 57-foot trawller allegedly violated the U.S. continuous fisheries zone by catching a shrimp from Galveston Bay, about 24 miles south-southeast of Galveston, the spokesman said.
Senate Majority Whip Robert C. Byrd, D-W., said he believed the chances were growing that President Nixon would be convicted if a House impeachment vote put him on trial before the Senate. "If the vote were to occur tomorrow in January, I think we would hear more interviews." "However, the possibilities for conviction I think are growing daily."
Sen. Byrd Says Conviction Chances Growing
Impeachment Vote Likely
Committee Forms Additional Charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of the House Judiciary Committee were shaping additional charges against President Nixon yesterday amid growing predictions from both Republicans and Democrats that impeachment is likely.
Nixon, meanwhile was flying back from a California working vacation, already focusing on the full House, where he predicts he will win vindication.
The committee voted 27 to 11 Saturday night to recommend Nixon's impeachment for having "prevented, obstructed and abused the implementation of justice" in the Watergate cover-up.
ALL 21 DEMOCRATS and six of the
republicans on the committee voted for
the amendment.
Senate Majority Whip Robert C. Byrd, D-Va, predicted Sunday that the House would pass a bill to privatize the school.
He said the votes were not yet present for a Senate conviction, but "the possibilities are huge."
A majority vote in the House is needed for impeachment, with a two-thirds vote required in the Senate for removal from office.
One of the six committee Republicans who voted for the impeachment recommendation, Rep. L. Caldwell Butler of Virginia, said yesterday that he expected the vote in the full House to mirror the margin in the committee.
Appearing on the CBS interview program, "Face the Nation," Butler predicted that at least one-third of the Republicans in the House would vote for impeachment.
House Democratic leader Thomas P. O'Neill of Massachusetts, who has repeatedly predicted the House would approve impeachment by a margin of 60 votes or more, predicted after the committee would carry by at least 70 votes.
"The President was not surprised. We expected this," said spokesman Gerald Bardolph.
The President was strolling on the Pacific beach when the committee voted Saturday on a plan.
Another article, being drafted by Rep. Edward Mervicki, D-Maryland, charges IXON with claiming unauthorized income tax funds to improve his California and Florida records.
Later, the Western White House issued a terse statement:
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Turks Given Compromise
Democratic committee members caucused yesterday to discuss additional articles of impeachment. Most appeared convinced that the clinic vote was behind them.
Nixon was returning to Washington yesterday from a 14-day stay in his San Francisco office.
The foreign ministers of Greece, Turkey and Britain agreed early today on a "provisional solution" to end the military confrontation on Cyprus and it to the Turkish government for approval. Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros announced.
"THE PRESIDENT remains confident that the full House will recognize that there simply is not the evidence to support this or any other article of impeachment and will not vote to impeach. He is confident because he has committed no impachable offense."
Another committee member, Rep. Ray Thornton, D-Dark, predicted on the same program that a number of Southern states also would support impeachment.
"If they accept, we will have found a provisional solution," Mavros said.
Details of the agreement were not immediately available.
The negotiations in Geneva continued past midnight last night despite a Turkish threat to walk out then unless the Greeks and Syrians sets earlier by Turkey for a settlement.
The Greek government said the Turkish demands were "unacceptable and non-negotiable" and also accused Turkish Cyprus of numerous cease-fire violations.
In the Turkish capital, Premier Buentecveit met for two hours with the Greek ambassador to Turkey, then emerged early in a debate about the Geneva peace talks, what continued.
Republican, Rep. Robert McClory of Illinois, has drafted an article. He also prepared one accusing Nixon of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with eight committee subpoenas for 147 taped conversations.
Ambassador Dimitrios Cosmodopoulos requested the meeting to break the deadlock in Geneva over the conditions Turkey had set, including the right to interfere with ensuring its Cyprus invasion force until permanent political agreement was reached.
Congressional leaders want the House to reach a decision by late August.
The Athens government announced that it had requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, but at the United Nations, new Greek Ambassador Denis Cavaliere said this government had decided not to do so because of "some fresh hope" at Geneva.
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night. I was headed to the palace with
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The council nevertheless met last night. The special session was asked for by the Soviet Union because it said the fighting was still going on on Cyprus and "a threat to international peace and security continues."
In another development, Athens also said Ecevit had proposed a summit conference between himself and Premier Constantine Caramanilis of Greece to discuss Cyprus.
The Greek government announcement said it also wanted a meeting of the NATO foreign ministers because of its trouble with Turkey.
In Ankara, Ecetiv told newsman that unless Turkey's demands at Geneva were agreed to, Turkey would not be in a position to sign a cease-fire agreement.
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might be held. The Greek reaction to the reported Turkish prosaqua was unknown.
NBCS news yesterday quoted villagers in Alaminos, Cyprus, as saying that Greek Cypriot national guardsm had lined 15 kilometers around a wall and massacred them July 20.
"We are still seeking a peaceful solution," Ecceit said. "I would not like to talk about the possibilities of war. But we are prepared for all possibilities."
McClory voted against the article of impeachment approved by the committee
The Soviet Union earlier in the day demanded that ousted Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios be allowed to join the army of all foreign troops, both Greek and Turkish.
But government spokesman Panagiotis
told the Associated Press he "will
call on you."
The Soviet Union told conference participants it was sending a special envoy to an observer to the talks. The envoy was expected to play a role similar to that of Assistant Secretary of State William Buffu. Already an observer at the conference.
Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros told a newman after emerging from a round of negotiations that things were not going well.
Among the key elements of the stiffened
The report by NPC's John Palmer he said and other newsmen were shown bullet holes in the wall and freshly-turned earth where villagers said the victims were buried.
Reporter Says Greek Cypriots Executed Turks
Palmer said the story, told by two old men in the village, was verified by an English-speaking Turk who did not wish to be identified and said the massacre occurred the guardman's commander was killed an earlier clash with Turkish residents.
"To verify the story," Palmer reported, "we dug for a little more than an hour before uncovering a body about four feet underground. There was a strong odor of
Turkish position was an insistence that Turkey be allowed to reinforce its troops on Cyprus without restrictions until a permanent political settlement is reached.
The session is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Lawrence time. CRS will provide live television coverage under the three commercial networks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -The House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing will again be broadcast nationally on radio and television today.
When it reconvenes at 9:30 a.m. Lawrence time today the committee will take up other articles of impeachment and decide whether the first probably will be an article charging Nixon with violating the constitutional requirements of his office by various acts, ranging from alleged misuse of the White House plumbers unit.
National public radio and CBS radio are broadcasting the hearings live. NBC, ABC and Mutual radio networks have said they would carry highlights. The operation will offer live broadcast of the hearings to its member stations.
Until early yesterday, the terms of a military standstill on the island had been considered negotiable issues, conference sources said.
Mavros, with British support, has insisted that the Turks agree to a military standstill on Cyprus and that the Turkish force, which is estimated by neutral observers as up to 25,000 troops, be allowed only normal supplies from the mainland.
But the Turks were reported holding the cease-fire and making no move to extend their area of control. Turkey occupies a 200 square rule strip of land stretching from the southwest sector of Nicosia northward to a IS-15 mile wide beachhead on the northern coast.
The committee's second-ranking
Associated Press corrector Helgi Hjørger Jensen reported that Turkish helicopters,acht ships and navy landing craft continued to pour troops and armor onto the island.
The Turks also demanded establishment of an autonomous administration for Turkish Cypriots, the elevation of Turkish Cypriot leaders Rauf Denkashen as representative of the Cyprus government, and the construction of villages now under Greek Cyprus control.
House Hearing On Radio, TV
Prison Mass Attended By Convicts, Hostages
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (AP)—Three armed convicts and the 15 hostages they are holding in a prison library yesterday at attention were taken by a priest who is one of the captives.
Authorities pondered the convicts' latest demand: passage to "safe soil" outside the camp.
Fred Gomez Carrasco, 34, the leader of the rebellious convicts, said later in the day he has no deadline for prison officials to meet his demands because "it would be unfair to the hostages to do so." Most of the hostages have been held Wednesday.
Carrasco also warned against efforts to use his wife or mother to influence him.
"Anyone who tries to get in touch with a wife or mother finds it will be to no avail . . . even if my mother comes and gets on down there," Carrasco told a reporter via television.
Huntsville would make him mad and "things would get toucher immediately."
Carrasco held interviews with a number of newsmen yesterday. He told one reporter the reason he was talking to them was because "I believe that a person who is about to be executed has a right to tell the people how he feels."
He said that he expected to die if his demands were not met.
He said bringing his wife or mother to
Carrasco's statements to reporters yesterday afternoon followed a morning at the courtroom where he was flanked by calm" by prison spokesman Ken Taylor said the convicts and their hostages had a leisurely breakfast and attended a wedding in New York. Joseph O'Brien, the prison chaplain,
Carrasco had initially demanded a helicopter to leave the country, but then said he wasn't sure whether he wanted a helicopter or a plane.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he would meet today with Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott to begin "anticipatory" preparations for a possible Senate trial, perhaps beginning in September.
Nixon's supporters are predicting the issue will never reach the Senate.
Vice President Gerald R. Ford, in line to succeed the presidency if Nixon is outted, said the House would vote down imposition. The House would underline the question solely "on the facts."
The vice president said the fact that all 21 Democrats on the committee voted to recommend impeachment "tends to make it a partisan issue."
When reporters noted that six of the committee's 17 Republicans had joined the Democrats, Ford said: "I am disappointed."
Special Agent Cards Issued Paper Reports
The controversy of the cards has surfaced the Miller has always defended the practice.
KANAS CITY (AP)—The Kansas City Star said in yesterday's editions that Kansas Atten, Gen Vern Miller had now issued 1,700 special agent cards since he had been in office, many to persons untrained in law enforcement.
The Star said persons with special agent commissions appeared to interpret their authority differently, but that at least some have used their cards:
To avoid traffic tickets
—To avoid traffic tickets
To carry concealed weapons
—To gain free admittance to movie, music shows and sports events.
The newspaper said when asked recently how many cards had been issued Miller, a candidate for the Democratic nomination said, "I don't think that's anybody's business.
"The cards to me are germane to the operation of the office and germane to the welfare of the people of Kansas," Miller was quoted. "It's a responsibility that I assume as attorney general and it's one that I gladly accept."
Endowment Head Sees No Change
The Kansas University Endowment Association has operated backstage for years, and Todd Seymour, the new executive secretary of the Association, said Friday that he didn't foresee any changes that would raise the organization's profile.
Seymour, former fund director for the替换, replaced Irvin Youngberg, who retired last week because of health reasons. Seymour said that Youngberg would continue to assist the Association as director of further long-range construction projects.
Seymour said there would be an announcement of one of the projects on the board.
Seymour, a 1950 KU journalism graduate, has been employed by the Association since 1959. Since Seymour's days as a student, the Association has grown from total assets of less than $2 million to approximately $40 million. Alumni support of the University has put KU in second place among public universities in monetary amount of gifts.
Seymour said the Endowment Association would continue along the same course as the 1998 conference.
Among special purpose buildings financed by the association on the Lawrence campus are the McColum Labs, Moore Hall and all the scholarship halls.
"The University will continue to need additional facilities, especially special needs programs."
Todd Seymour
Support for the Medical Center will continue to have high priority, in spite of the massive building program now being financed by the state.
"The state will put up a building that is merely adequate, leaving a lot of holes," he said.
Seymour compared Endowment Association efforts in many areas to "the icing on the cake."
Seymour acknowledged that certain University projects, including the new law school buildings, are threatened by spiraling cutbacks and postponements. He said that there weren't any plans at present to offer financial support to any state projects. However, Endowment Association support certain areas shouldn't be ruled out, he said.
Seymour said inflation hadn't yet caused any major problems for the Association, although he said many gifts weren't as valuable as they were several years ago because the inflation rate was larger than the return.
However, Seymour said, "We're optimistic about our ability to increase our breast cancer rate."