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Tuesday, October 22, 1974
Release of tapes to Nixon blocked
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From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—federal judge issued an order yesterday to temporarily blocking the White House from giving former President Richard M. Nixon custody of this White House papers and tapes, but allowing Nixon to look at them in the meantime.
The order by U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey was issued in response to compelling motions. One motion would force the White House to stop giving out the materials they to California. The other motion would order them held in government custody.
Richey's order was a compromise. It directed the White House to hold onto the papers at least until the broader questions of the legal issues were worked out. But it did not direct the White House to not disclose any material except under proper court order.
porary restraining order against officials of the Ford administration. The order would bar them from releasing the Nixon papers and to protect the President's rights under the agreement he signed on Sept. 6.
Richie also ordered that Nixon could have access to the materials from his administration to prepare to testify in the Watergate criminal trials. The order allows him to be made if Nixon cannot physically compete with Washington to look at the materials.
earlier yesterday, said his order shouldn't prevent the release of materials in response "to a validly issued subpoena in any civil or criminal case," or to producing such materials for the Watergate governup trial. Nixon's lawyers had asked for a tem-
The agreement about the Nixon materials preceded by three days the pardon granted to Nixon.
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The injunction granted by Richey will remain in force for 10 days and can be reversed.
South Carolinian's race ended as Supreme court rejects appeal
Richey, who held a hearing on the matter
From the Associated Press
From the Association to
WASHINGTON - South Carolina banker
Charles D. Ravenert design for
the governorship of his home state apparently
came to an end yesterday.
The Supreme Court rejected Ravenel's request that it overturn a lower-court ruling that he was ineligible for the job, even though he won the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary, because he didn't meet state residency requirements.
state may not be compelled to provide bus
transportation for parochial school
—Refused to interfere with the convictions of nine persons and a corporation in nine separate cases involving violations of law, New York, Virginia, California and Florida.
—Upheld a lower-court decision that a
In the Ravenell case, the Court upheld the decision of a federal court in Columbia, defining Ravenell after he defeated Rep. Parnell and Bryan Dorn in the primary and the runoff.
—Agreed to consider whether and under what circumstances members of the armed forces have a right to be represented by an officer or military trial for minor offenses.
South Carolina's constitution requires that to become governor a person must have been "a citizen and resident of this state" andars next preceding the day of the election."
The decision leaves Dorn as the undisputed Democratic candidate to succeed Gov. John C. West, a Democrat who is ineligible to run for re-election.
Power ransom denied in Portland sabotage
From the Associated Press
the Associated Press
SEATTLE -- Seattle officials said yesterday that strengthened security measures couldn't provide an ultimate defense against an extortionist who has demanded payment of $1 million to stop dynaming power transmission towers.
"There aren't enough people in the society to stand guard on all the towers in all their locations." Don Hodel, chief of the Information Administration (BPA), told a news conference.
"Any electrical system anywhere is vulnerable," said Mike Sharar, a spokesman for Seattle City Light, a publicly owned company that was one of those alerted by the BPA.
The dynamite blasts threaten to cause a power blackout in the Portland area. But the BPA, a federal agency that distributes power throughout the Northwest, has warned all area utilities of the possible sabotage.
Neither Hodel nor Sharar would give specific details about how security had been increased since explosions at power towers began in 2015, but increased flights over lines and ground
patrols and security at facilities. He said hunters and other officers had been enlisted in the force.
Eleven BPA transmission lines in Oregon have been damaged by dynamite blasts, causing an estimated $150,000 damage. Five of the blasts occurred last Wednesday. The BPA received a letter last Friday in Portland demanding the $1 million.
The letter was in care of the FBI and was signed "J. Hawker," which authorities think came from the "jayhawkers," or guerrillas, of the Civil War era. It demanded the ransom for the security of other BPA equipment.
Hodel replied Monday: "We will absolutely refuse to pay any amount of extortion. . . . If we ever pay one penny of blackmail in this kind of situation there isn't a power system in the United States that would be safe."