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John Dean To Testify On Chapin
WASHINGTON (AP) - Special prosecutor Leon Jawowski said yesterday that John W. Dean Jaw尔斯 will be "a major government witness" in a Watergate case against a former White House aide.
Meanwhile, Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott repeated his statement that he had seen evidence that Dean lied to the Senate Watergate committee.
Scott disputed a report that the White House tapes don't contradict Dean's testimony. Dean, a former White House counsel, told the Watergate committee that President Nixon knew of the Watergate cover-up before March 21, the date Nixon said he was told about it.
Jawski's staff filed a memorandum in federal court saying that "the government plans to call John W. Dean III as a witness" at the trial of Dwight L. Chapin, former presidential appointments secretary.
Chapin was indicted Nov. 29, on four counts of lying to a grand jury about the activities of Donald H. Segretti, an underground political agent for President Nixon's re-election campaign committee in 1972.
CHAPIN PLEADED INNOCENT to the charges. His attorneys indicated they planned to attempt to bar Dean's testimony on the grounds he and Chapin had had an attorney-client relationship when Dean was a White House counsel.
The memorandum, signed by Jaworski, said that in his White House job, Dean's primary clients were the United States and the office of the President, "not the subordinate employees and officials employed at the White House."
Scott told reporters he knew of grounds for "several indictments against Mr. Dean" for perjury.
Scott said the material he had seen indicated that Dean "testified as to matters that didn't occur on the dates and at times he said they occurred."
But a source who said he thought he had seen the same material, said he thought the senator was mistaken.
DEAN PLEADED GUILTY in October to a charge of conspiring to obstruct justice. The special prosecutor's office agreed to bring no further charges against the former White House counsel in exchange for his full cooperation.
Part of that agreement was that perjury charges would be brought if any of Dean's testimony before grand jurors or the Senate Watergate committee proved false.
The entire question could be settled soon if grand jury indictments are returned in the Watergate case.
The prosecutors have the tapes of the Nixon-Dean conversations.
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The benches placed in Front of Wescoe Hall obviously wasn't designed with the canisters on the walls.
Kansan Staff Photo by ALAN McCOY
Monday afternoon. Still, the first week of classes can be so exhilarating that any op-
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Nixon Urges Easing Pollution Controls
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon yesterday proposed easing clean-air standards and cutting tax breaks for companies to cope with the energy crisis.
Nixon also ordered a tentidl increase in federal offshore leasing for petroleum development and a study of possible future oil and gas lineshelf from northern Alaska.
The new measures appeared certain to arouse controversy provoking environment
Nikon also said he would propose in his fiscal 1973 budget that the federal government spend $1.8 billion for energy research, and would invest as much as in fiscal 1974 — for a coal research program expected to total $2.9 billion over the next five years. Nikon also revised his proposal for mandatory labeling of automobiles and major appliances to comply with this rule.
Nixon also urged Congress to complete action on legislation proposed earlier, including a strapped-down emergency energy regulation, and a temporary relaxation of clean-air regulations.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency and the Commerce Department have launched such labeling programs on a voluntary basis. EPA publicizes the online-mileage performance of the new cars tests under its antipollution programs.
He urged passage of a separate bill under which windfall profits made by oil companies as a result of the energy crisis, would be reduced. He also stressed using energy summits and lowering prices.
In New York, Exxon Corp., the nation's biggest oil company, estimated that its net profits from gasoline production
BUT THE COMPANY'S chairman denied that it had capitalized on the energy crisis.
Jamieson said the earnings increase came primarily from Exxon's foreign operations and that the additional money was needed to finance exploration and expansion programs to meet future energy needs.
preliminary earnings were up almost 90 per cent in 1973 and 1972.
Chairman J.K. Jamieson said, "We have no windfall profits."
SUA Admits to Pressure
Union Oil of California, the 12th biggest company in the industry, announced that its
On Tuesday, Cities Service, the nation's 18th largest oil firm, reported a 37 per cent rise in its production.
Most of the other major oil firms are expected to announce similar earnings reports.
Demos Pledge Candor On Bribery Charges
The American Petroleum Institute reported Wednesday that crude oil imports, refinery operations and crude stockplays increased in the US while imports of refined products increased.
TOPEKA (AP)-Gov. Robert Docking and Democrats assumed a position of openness yesterday in their reaction to the grand jury indictments in Topeka of Richard L. Mallow, former appointments secretary to Docking, and architects who were accused of helping the investigation in May 1974 for expansion work at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Kansan Staff Reporter
The indictments handed down Tuesday allege that a scheme to kick back 6 per cent, or $30,000, to help finance Docking's "Lady of the Mall" arranged among the architects.
censorship and political funding pressures and the legal implications of confiscation. Earlier this week Reilly said he and the
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The 6 per cent figure was agreed upon, the indictments said, before the contract was awarded. The $30,000 is 6 per cent of the architects' $500,000 fee for preliminary work on the medical project to ex-ample facilities and add a basic science building.
"Careful and thoughtful consideration was given to the ramifications of showing
Several members of the Student Union Activities (SUA) board said last night that they were pressured into cancelling the film, "The Erotic Film Festival," after two state senators complained about it Friday night.
"If they thought I said that, they must have misunderstood me in the pressure of my anger."
However, at least one SUA board member said Burge might be covering up for Dykes.
Both emphasized cooperation between Docking and Attv. Gern Vern Miller.
He said in an official board statement that the board also considered the issue of
George R. "Dick" Docking, the governor's brother who serves as his campaign manager, has been elected to a seat.
told a news conference 16 hours after the indictments were made public.
interpretation of what he had told board members.
Norbert Dreiling, state Democratic chairman, said the indictments "are a major disappointment," but pledged that the party would stand behind Docking.
"We were told by Frank Burke (Marsa Union director) that Chancellor Archie R. Dykes had already assured the senators the movie wouldn't be shown Saturday night," said Jim Milo, Hinsdale, Ill., sophomore and SUA film chairman.
Burge said last night that the entire controversy over whether the board was responsible for the attack had been cleared.
But Burge denied the board that Dykes had already decided. Burge, Dykes and one of the senators, Ed Reilly, Leavenworth, also denied that Dykes made
He said the board's vote to cancel the film "was a Mickey Mouse vote. Dykes had made the decision for us. He didn't ask us and he didn't support us."
"Vern has a public responsibility"
Docking said. "He has a duty to do, and if you're hurt, you bleed. I think this is the vav public business it should be conducted."
"knowing Mr. Burge, his deep love for the University and students and his deep concern over the whole matter," said Kathy Tussing, Des Moines senior and SUA board member, "I can see him taking the blame for what appears to be a large discrepancy between the numbers of what and what Chancellor Dykes said. But I know the blame is not Mr. Burge's."
The governor said Dick Docking's allegation in statements to the news media that his indictment was politically bad wasn't Robert Docking's position.
The governor reiterated his promise to cooperate fully in getting to the bottom of the budding scandal in his administration. He said he would write questions nosed by the grand jury.
SUA board president Steve Warren, Haspes, Nibb, senior, said at a meeting of the board last night that board members were told the board's staff had already arrived the film could have been concealed
Sources indicated it is unlikely the grand jury would ask the governor to appear in person, since he has answered the jury's questions submitted in writing.
"I don't mind telling you I'm shocked by the entire system of allegations," Docking
The governor said he has given no thought to resigning, and that public response so far has been "so kind to me, it's been over-whelming."
He also said he hadn't tad time to assess the impact on his future political plans. He said he told Democratic legislators yesterday morning that he wanted them to continue to push for his program in the 1974 session.
By BOB MARCOTTE
Kansan Staff Reporter
Phillips Boss Denies Wrongdoing By Oil Industry in Energy Crisis
Admitting that the petroleum industry "could have done a better job in an emergency," he would打心，Bill Douce, president of Phillips Petroleum Company, denied yesterday that there has been a conspiracy among U.S. oil companies to profit from an energy shortage.
Douce told about 225 people at a meeting
Nixon to Urge No Bail for Heroin Pushers
The Nixon administration plans a renewed push for legislation denying to the Department of Homeland trafficking and setting mandatory prison sentences for felonies.
President Nixon is expected to ask for the legislation in a message to Congress next month. With White House support, the Drug Enforcement Administration will testify.
In a new bid for approval, the White House intends to soften its proposal and enlarge it to apply to other hard drugs as well as heroin, a White House advisory committee has recommended.
Officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration say they have fresh statistics supporting a revived appeal for a preventive detention law.
British Coal Miners Will Press for Strike
Yorkshire coal miners agreed yesterday to press for a national strike that could cut back electricity enough by spring to threaten a halt to British induction.
The strike call represented the views of 65,000 miners who work coal fields in the northern England region.
The executive of the National Union of Mineworkers, which represents 270,000 men throughout Britain, meets in London today to decide whether to call a membership vote on the strike call. Demands for the vote are expected to be overwhelming.
It was the first time in the 11-week pay dispute between coal miners and the government that a union branch had officially demanded a strike.
Israelis Begin Withdrawal from Suez Canal
President Amar Sadat of Egypt told newsman in Rabat, Morocco, that he had "nored among the Syrians a readiness to agree to such disengagement." He declined to elaborate, but said a Syrian-Iraeli agreement similar to last year's agreement with Iran and Israeli armies was the next essential step on the road to peace.
Israeli tanks and troops began withdrawing from the west bank of Egypt's sazer Caiet desert. Nearly 50 percent of reported pursuing their own military advance was accompanied by agreement with Israel.
Foreign Nations Are Bribing Arabs for Oil
Foreign governments are pushing for a piece of the Arab oil action in deals by bypass the "own sea" strategy, the major oil companies that often decide who will drill.
Nations are offering the Arab oil producers modern arms, heavy machinery, industrial projects and agricultural development schemes in the Arab world.
Five of the seven sisters are American—Exxon, Gulf, Mobil, Standard Oil of California and Texaco. The other two are British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell.
Morton Signs Permit for Alaskan Pipeline
Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton yesterday signed the long-awaited permit for a 789-mile, $1 billion pipeline to tap the rich oil fields of
Construction is expected to start this spring.
"With a little cooperation from the weather man, I am optimistic that the oil of the North Shore will reach markets in the lower 48 states by 1977," the author wrote.
Officials of the Alykea Pipeline Service Co., which will build and operate the line, handed Mention a check for $12.1 million to pay for environmental costs.
Dole Says Indictments Won't Alter His Plans
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said yesterday that the indictments returned to him would not change any of the plains or the cavalry in his campaign for reelection this year.
It has been speculated that Docking, a four-term Democratic governor, would run against Dole, a former Republican national chairman.
of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce yesterday noon in the Kansas Union that "the more logistics" of the petroleum industry precluded the possibility that oil companies contrived the fuel shortage to drive up prices.
Unlike most industries in which there are only three or four major companies, he is the only one with a diverse portfolio.
Although he wouldn't predict gasoline prices for the coming months, he agreed with President Nixon that gasoline prices wouldn't reach $1 a gallon.
Source said gasoline rationing could probably be avoided if the public offered
There probably will be no revolutionary changes in distribution of gasoline at the pump, he said, but there probably will be fewer people buying it from toward main+ and self-service operations.
There is absolutely no foundation, he said, to rumors that the oil industry is exporting petroleum products needed to solve energy problems at home.
Douce said the product-trading agreements, joint pipeline ownership, joint bidding on leases and joint exploration and development programs shared by the major oil companies, "are perfectly perfected" and "in no way represented an effort to consign against the public."
The issue of windfall profits is a "hot one" for the oil industry, he said, but most other industries enjoyed even bigger profit jumps from 1972 to 1973, such as the 249 per cent increase enjoyed by "one of our severest critics," the Washington Post.
Douce also discounted rumors of oil industry hoarding and production cutbacks. Heating oil stocks at the end of 1973 were listed in the New York Times as equal to a 58-day supply, he said, compared to the 46-day supply at the end of 1972 and the 66-day figure for 1971.
Output figures prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Douce said, show that during the first nine months of last year, U.S. refineries turned out nearly seven per
"You try to strike a happy balance," he said. "So far this year we are ahead in the game because of warm weather. But not to worry, because that the oil companies are boarding."
The differences in these figures can largely be attributed to differences in weather conditions from year to year, he said, noting that oil companies prepare their inventories in anticipation of cold weather.
cent more oil than during the same period in 1972.
Less than one per cent of our petroleum products are exported, he said, and the exports are "only a little dab of distillate and a little dab of gasoline."
Oil industry calculations of fuel supplies were upset, he said, because the Alaska pipeline was delayed, the Santa Barbara oil spill was released and the pipeline leasing, air pollution regulations forced
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more and more producers to use oil products and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries emerged from "a putting society into a powerful world catcher."
At the same time, he said, "demand took off like a scared rabbit."
The days of cheap energy are gone, he said, and it will probably be 10 to 15 years before the United States will enjoy the same energy. "Now you can supply the supplies as it has enjoyed in the past.
The best way to fight the energy crisis, Douce said, would be for the American
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