Senate Committee Grants Kissinger Request
Senate Committee Grants Kissinger Request The Senate Foreign Relations Committee granted Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's request yesterday for a review of his role in national security wintapes. The unanimous vote was taken at the Capitol hours after Kissinger, at a news conference in Salzburg, Austria, said he would resign unless his role in the controversy was cleared up.
Rodino Refuses President's Brief on Cover-Up James D. St. Clair, President Nixon's chief watergate lawyer, tried to give the House Judiciary Committee yesterday the President's response to allegations that he had a role in the Watergate cover-up. The committee also rejected an attempt by Rep.
Rodino was described by other members as annoyed by St. Clair's attempt to submit the brief ahead of the schedule that Rodino laid out.
Senate Sustains Aid to South Vietnam
The Senate staved off by one officer a further cut in military aid to South Vietnam as it passed a $21.8 billion military weapons procurement bill yesterday, 84 to 6. The $900 million for military assistance to South Vietnam was reduced from $1.3 billion to $750 million for the 12 months beginning July 1 was sustained on a 46 to 4 roll call vote.
Israeli Troops Pulling Out of Golan Heights
Israeli Troops Pulling Out of Golan Heights
Israeli troops on the Golan Heights were pulling on schedule yesterday toward new defense lines specified in the Israeli-Syrian disengagement agreement, reported Tel Aviv command.
sailors早就 were destroying installations in the southeastern sector of the 300 square miles of the Golan Heights that they captured in last October's war. The entire withdrawal is to be completed by June 26, according to the agreement.
Economic Coordinator Rejects Use of Controls President Nixon's new economic coordinator, Kenneth D. Rush, has rejected any use of controls to cool inflation. Rush said the administration will rely instead on the old-fashioned remedies of fiscal and monetary restraint.
Rush's comments yesterday came after a proposal by Rep. Wilbur Milurs (D-AK), chairman of the House Ways and Measures Committee, to reinstate the bill.
IRS Head Denies Use of Ouota System
The head of the Internal Revenue Service told the Senate yesterday that the dishonest we under a quota system as charged by the head of the Treasury received $270 million.
House Passes Bill Easing Pollution Controls
In earlier letters, the head of the Treasury Union told the Senate that no matter what IRS officials might say, "production goals and quotas are
The House passed and sent to the Senate compromise legislation yesterday that would slow clean air efforts in an attempt to conserve scarce fuels. The bill would authorize temporary suspensions in emission requirements allowing power plants to switch from low-sulfur oil and natural gas to more abundant
The bill also would grant car manufacturers a one-or two-year delay in meeting auto exhaust deadlines.
Heavy Fighting Continues in Southeast Asia
Heavy fighting was reported yesterday along two strategic corridors north of Santiago, and the situation remained at implementing a true cease-fire被罚 with no apparent progress.
In Cambodia, President Lon Nol, reacting to political infighting touched off by last week's student violence, has asked government ministers who threatened to resign to stay in the Cabinet until September. Spokesmen for the six ministers turned down Lon Nol's request, however.
Ran on Owning Gold May Re Abolished
A prohibition against Americans' owning gold, imposed 41 years ago during the Great Depression, may be lifted by the end of the year. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said yesterday. Americans now may own gold coins and bullion. The government's Gold has been selling recently for about $180 an ounce on the open market.
Among those invited are actors who appeared in films of Ingle's plays. The guests include Paul Newman, Warren Beauty, Karl Malden, Robert Wagner, Shelley Winter and the rest of those planning to attend will be made in early July.
More than 700 people, including 250 theatrical and film celebrities, have been invited to attend the formal dedication of the William Inge Memorial Theatre at the University of Kansas July 12.
Celebrities Invited to Inge Festival
It is particularly appropriate to name the Experimental Theatre after Inge because it's used to produce the works of young playwrights, said William Kuhlke, academic coordinator of "The World of William Inge."
The dedication will honor Inge, a nationally-known playwright and KU graduate who died last June. The Experimental Theatre will be renamed in his honor, a work by M. R. Bungie he burged and there will be an exhibition of his mementos.
"The World of William Ingre" is a summer-long series of plays, lectures, films and concerts revolving around Ingre's world.
The guest of honor at the dedication will be Helene Ineg Cornell, the sister of the playwright. The guest list, in addition to the theatrical celebrities, includes people from the Metropolitan Opera, who are buried, and University, state and local dignitaries.
The exhibit will include a bronze bust of Inge, his Oscar award, pictures and other mementos. The dedication festivities will include a picnic at 6 p.m. in the Murphy Hall of Arts (7:30 and 7:30) and a performance of Inge's play "Picnic" at 8.
Ige was born in 1913 and was graduated in speech and drama in 1933. He taught in both high school and college, and was a drama, music and movie critic for the St. Louis Star-Times before he turned to playwriting.
Tennessee Williams inspired Ingen to try to write plays, according to Kuhle. Ingen became recognized as one of the major American dramatists of the mid-century. Kuhle wrote a play about the 1850s that Miller was the accepted playwrights of the 1960s.
Williams and Inge were also rivals. At one time Inge's
"Bus Stop" was competing with Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" for the same award.
Inge always kept close ties to Kansas and the Midwest. All four of his most successful plays were set in the Midwest. "Come Back, Little Sheba" takes place in St. Louis, "Bus Stop" supposedly in Lawrence, "Picnic" in I inge's home town of Independence and "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" in Oklahoma.
In 1956 Jone won the KU Alumni Distinguished Service Citation. He once intended to come here to live, and bought a house.
Occasionally Inge would stop in Lawrence unexpectedly. He often went to the University Theatre to talk to students trying out for plays. He was also a guest lecturer on playwriting in 1960.
The University has had some access to those of Inge's personal items, including his sculptures. Spencer Research
Inge once visited members of the Sigma Nu fraternity, with which he became affiliated as a student. He told them it took him three semesters to get a good enough English grade to qualify for initiation.
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Kissinger Threatens to Quit
Wants Wiretap Controversy Cleared Up
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) - Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger threatened yesterday to resign if a controversy over his role in Washington wristwapping was not cleared up. But a White House spokesman said President Nixon would be reluctant to accept a resignation under these circumstances.
Shortly after Kissinger's news conference, the Foreign Relations Committee
In a special news conference that Kissinger's aides said was called to "get some things off his chest," Kissinger repeated his denials of lying about his involvement in administration efforts to prevent leaks of classified documents.
Alternately brushing with anger and pleading for understanding, he told me how his parents had reacted.
"I don't believe that it is possible to conduct the foreign policy of the United States under these circumstances when the character and credibility of the secretary of state is at issue, and if it is not cleared up, I will resign."
Kissinger asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington to take another look at the testimony he gave last week, which Mr. Trump has siding his nomination by Nixon as secretary of state. He said he would leave the Nixon entourage in the Middle East and other countries.
met and voted unanimously to review his case.
In saying he would resign, Kissinger maintained that his honor and reputation were being defamed by reports in the news media about his role in wirestapping of newsmen and Washington officials who had access to national security material).
Ronald L. Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary, later told newsman the President understood Kissinger's desire to clear his name, and added: "The President would be very reluctant to accept Henry's request under this type of circumstance."
letter he said he had sent to Sen. J. W. Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, asking for re-examination of the entire matter.
Ziegler said Nixon believed Kissinger's honor "needs no defense."
He said he would stay in office if the panel supported him.
Kissinger's starting statement brought confusion to the White House staff and, in response, he said:
Kissinger read at his news conference a
Kissinger indicated he hadn't warned the president in advance of his resignation
Kissinger appeared to have settled on this time and place for his announcement because two attempts at explanations last night led to stop questions about the wrecking ball.
As he explained yesterday, he appeared at a news conference in the State Department last Thursday prepared basically to
end fighting, ending fighting
between Syria and Iraq.
"After five weeks in the Middle East, I was not thinking about the various investigations going on in the United States," Kissinger said.
"That I seemed irritated, angered, fustered, discombobulated, all these words are correct," Kissinger said of the Thursday appearance at which he was asked if he had a lawyer to prepare for possible peruvian charges.
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — President Nixon flies to Cairo today to open a seventy swing through the Middle East, confronting extremists who remain with his side as secretary of state.
Sadat, President to Meet Today
Aides said Nixon would depart soon after breakfast today. The Night to the Egyptian Revolution is expected to begin in June.
Aides said Nixon would be greeted at Cairo airport by President Awat Sadat.
presidential party will arrive there at midafternoon Egyptian time.
After a state dinner tonight, the two presidents and their official parties travel tomorrow by train to Alexandria, an ancient Mediterranean port northwest of Cairo.
Judge Orders Separate Trial for Ehrlichman
"The defendants . . . unanimously and respectively object to the release of the sealed materials to anyone, except to defendants' counsel for their use in the defense of the indictment," their memo said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge yesterday ordered a separate trial for John D. Ehrlichman in the Plumbers' case because of persistent refusal by President Nixon to permit Ehrlichman unlimited access to his White House files.
Three other defendants are to go on trial next Monday, but there were indications that Ehrlichman's trial, if held at all, would be delayed until impeachment proceedings in Congress.
After two weeks of struggle on the White House files issue, U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell said conditions laid down by Nixon would elevilch Derrick his right to make full use of a lawyer and therefore to a fair trial.
The court gave no indication when it would act. President Nixon's lawyers had
Meanwhile, six defendants in the Watergate cover-up trial asked the Supreme Court not to release a grand jury that uncovered facts and others as unincluded co-conspirators.
Gesell said yesterday, "The President flatly refuses to make documents available to the court in cameras at a closed hearing in front of the court for the court to properly perform its duty.
Gesell said he would issue an order today "to enforce the subpoena" so Ehrlichman might have access to files he claimed were needed for his defense.
"In view of this resistance to lawful trial subpoenaes, the court feels it is necessary the court remains defended and to continue his trial until a later date."
argued earlier in federal court that the grand jury that named Nixon acted improperly.
In another development, U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica rued that all of his cover-up defendants must face trial and should be subject to reasons, all had sought separate trials.
Of seven men originally indicted in the Plumbers' case, only three now are scheduled to stand trial starting Monday on charges that they conspired to burglary机房 in 1971. The three are G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard L. Barker and Eugenio Martinez.
Under the most recent compromise offered by the White House, Ehrlichman's lawyers have been permitted to sit in a room adjacent to the vault, but Nixon would have remained the final arbiter over which material could be released.
The notes are stored inside two cardboard boxes within a White House vault. Under White House rules, Erichman may review notes taken or taking notes or making any reproductions.
At issue in the pretrial proceedings has been the insistence of Ehrlichman's lawyers that they must accompany the former presidential domestic affairs admirer while he reviews 28 months of handwritten notes left behind in the White House files.
The Plumbers were a special White House investigative unit set up to investigate news leaks. Elsberg leaked the Pentagon papers to the New York Times, and the break-in at the psychiatrist's office was part of an investigation of Elsberg.
Ehrlichman also is awaiting trial regarding the alleged cover-up of the investigation into the original Watergate break-in.
Assistant watergate Protector prosecutor William S. Merrill said after the hearing it was possible the Ehrichman trial might be delayed beyond the end of the year.
"The proposal is unacceptable," Gwelll said. "I denies him (Erichman) the right to vote."
That trial, expected to last two months or more, is scheduled to begin Sept. 9. It may conflict with a possible new date for the court's ruling. The judge will parallel an impeachment trial in the Senate.
Ehrlichman has also been charged with perjury in California from court appearances resulting from the break-in at the psychiatrist's office in Beverly Hills.
A trial date for those charges was delayed pending the outcome of the federal trial in Washington, and the impact of Gessel's order on the state charges is undetermined.
In another development in the cover-up case, White House lawyer James D. S. Clair said the grand jury named Nixon as suspect and Watergate co-conspirator acted improperly.
St. Clair said in legal papers filed with U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica he
doubled the grand jury had the right to charge the President and even if the grand jury did act properly, the action was "unsupported by the facts."
St. Clair wants all the evidence used by the grand jury in citing Nixon sent to the Supreme Court for legal argument July 8. On that day, the high court will hear a case where the defense should be compelled to turn over tape recordings of 64 presidential conversations.
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Campaigning
Corle Brown of Waltius wears her campaigning costume while waiting for the flag to be raised starting another day at Sunflower Girls State. Brown was among the candidates who sought their parties' support on Sunday in Brownsburg, State activities will continue through Sunday on the KU campus.
They return to Cairo Friday to conclude the talks. Then Nixon flies to Saudi Arabia for two days, followed by visits to Syria, and then in August he returns to the United States June 19.
Presidential spokesman Ronald L. Ziegler said yesterday Nixon was the contreroy surrounding Kissinger would not want him to resign, "he does not want him to resign."
Kissinger said unless his name were cleared up in a wireat controversy he would resign from the government. He said he was for hurting America's foreign policy.
Kissinger's bombshell overshadowed preparations for what is shaping up as another Nixon foreign policy spectacular, but Zeigler said he didn't expect the Kissinger announcement to affect Nixon's plans.
Nixon's journey to Egypt is a tangle sign of a new American role in the Middle East.
Relations had deteriorated for 20 years after a decision by Secretary of State John Foster Dulies to withdraw financial backing from Evvot's giant asian Dam.
Cairo broke relations during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, and official contact with Egypt was lost.
GOP Leader Says Roy's Staff Leaked Story
TOPEKA (AP) - A prominent Kansas Republican reiterated an accusation yesterday that a member of the staff of U.S. Rep. John Kasich has called for Washington columnist Jack Anderson.
"Who else would?" asked McDill "Huck"
Boyd, Phillips publisher and national
Republican committeeman for Kansas in a
passage through state GOP headquarters here
"Paul Pendergast, Roy's chief of staff, has bragged in Washington circles of his close association with a member of Anderson's staff." Bovid said.
Robert L. Brock, Topeka, state Democratic party chairman, labeled Boyd's statement "a desperate attempt to cover up the wrongness of his campaign." Roy's Senate campaign headquarters here.
Roy is seeking the Democratic nomination in the August primary to oppose incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) in the national election general.
The Anderson story alleged that Roger Stone, 21, identified by Anderson as "one of the President's dirty tricksters," had joined Dole's Washington staff.