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Wednesdav.March 20,1974
University Daily Kansan
Hiring . . .
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conclusion that there are no grounds for criminal charges to be issued against Dolph Simons Jr., because of conflicts of interest." Berkwitz said in a prepared statement.
"While it is true that Dr. John Simons is Dolphin Simons' brother and also further that Dr. John Simons is the principal stockholder in Good Health Care Management, Inc, Delphin Simons Jr., and not John Simons, Inc." (Walter) "In fact, Inc. nor stood to gain any profit by the awarding of the contract."
"Our office is supposed to investigate criminal charges," he said, "not whether the police had issued a warrant."
There are no state statutes for bidding the awarding of a contract under those cir-
Mrs. Raymond Cferl of 100 Sunset Drive had earlier distributed copies of a letter to members of the board and the local news media in which she indicated that the hospital board might have violated Kansas open meeting laws.
Minutes of later meetings of the board, she said, referred to action taken at "special meetings" on June 28 and July 30 for which minutes were not kept.
The minutes of a later meeting indicated that at the June 28 meeting it had been decided to invite a representative from the nursing department to do a survey of hospital operations.
Berkowitz said his investigation had shown that there were no special meetings on those dates, only interviews with Good Health representatives by some of the board members. No binding decisions had been made at those times, he said.
The Kansas open meeting laws, Berkwitz said, provide that meetings of tax-supported organizations and commissions must be open to the public. Their meetings can be closed for executive sessions, be said, but not for the purpose of making binding contracts.
However, Berkowitz said, "I think it was a little bicky on the part of the hospital staff," he added.
Berkwitz and his office also had investigated negotiations that had been made regarding options to purchase the Mount Hope Nursery site, which had been under consideration as a possible location for a new hospital.
His office could find no criminal intent behind the negotiations, he said, noting that fraud could have been involved if someone, knowing that the board would eventually purchase the land, had moved in first and purchased the land at a relatively low price.
But there is no evidence that anyone on the hospital board attempted to do that, he
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Watergate ...
spoke incorrectly at a March 6 news conference when he said he had learned then of payments made to silence the original defendants in the wiretapping burglary.
"I should have said they were alleged to have been made . . ." Nixon said.
The President said in response to a question that the nation wouldn't have been better off if Watergate had gone undetected. He said the raid on the Democratic National Committee would have and that it cost it up and forget it would be against American principles.
Or be through the United States and Europe you would "work out the differences that we have in the economic and political fields," and ruled out unilateral action.
—Pledged that the United States would continue working for peace in the “flash point” area of the Middle East and enmarbg. He said this would require cooperative efforts with the Soviet Union. He added that he thought the peace effort would avoid any reinstatement of hostilities.
"Said the economy would remain in 'a difficult period' for the next few months and beef prices were likely to remain high. But be repeated predictions that prices over-all would begin to moderate in the third quarter of the year.
servatives. Two of them, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, promptly opposed his bid for president, which would favor resignation if Nixon was guilty.
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Buckley...
Buckley said he hoped his stand would have some impact on Nixon because it canne 'from quarters that are bastly different from what he did as apathetic to what he has tried to advance.'
Sen. Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts
is the only other Republican U.S. senator who has called for Nixon's resignation. Unlike Brooke, a liberal, Buckley is, as he described himself, "a life-long Republican who has worked actively for Richard Nixon."
He was elected to the Senate in 1970 with the administration's help as the candidate of New York's conservative party, and he won a seat in Sen. Charles E. Goodell, a Democrat.
As one who saw in Nixon's 1972 victory
"both the mandate and the opportunity to carry forth reforms of historic significance for the nation," Buckley said, "today, just 16 months later, it is my conviction that the President has been stripped of the ability to fulfill that mandate."
Warning that a prolonged impeachment debate would only exacerbate the situation, Buckley said. "There is only one way and one way only by which the crisis can be resolved, and the country pulled out of the Watergate swamp."
Buckley said that his position was taken regardless of innocence or guilt of the President and that, in the event of an impeachment trial, the country would be "in for a trauma the dimensions of which the country has not thought through."
Buckley stressed that he shared Nixon's desire to preserve the presidency's power, saying, "The only way to save it is for the current President to resign, leaving the office free to defend itself with a new incumbent."
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