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Wednesday, October 16, 1974
University Daily Kansan
DIGEST
Ehrlichman victim of deceit, lawyer says
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON-John D. Ehrichman, former White House aide, was portrayed as a victim of the decret of former President Richard M. Nixon and John Dean III, former White House counsel, yesterday by his lawyer in the Watergate coverup trial.
"Richard Nixon deceived, misled, and used John Ehrlichman to cover up his
own knowledge and his own activities." William Frates, Ehrlichman's lawyer, said in his opening argument at the Watergate coverup trial.
Frates said Nixon was "covering up to save his own neck."
Frates was the first defense attorney to make an open statement in the trial of McGee.
campaign aides. The five are charged with conspiring to block the investigation of the 1972 break-in at the Democratic headquarter.
The other three defendants are former
David G. Brews, attorney for former Asst. Atty. Gen. Robert C. Mardian, followed Frates and described his client as only slightly involved in the case.
From the Associated Press
Turkish aid cutoff stalled
WASHINGTON—House and administration leaders agreed yesterday to delay the cutoff of U.S. military aid to Turkey until Dec. 10. The compromise is intended for President Gerald R. Ford's vow of a bill to immediately cut off aid to Turkey. The House and Senate will try to vote tomorrow on the compromise, which is contained in an emergency resolution needed by some federal agencies.
G. Docking to court
Rockefeller hearings
TOPEKA-George R. "Dick" Docking, brother of the Kansas governor, will be re-arraigned at 2 p.m. Oct. 13 in Shawnee County magistrate court on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery in the award of architectural and engineering contracts. Two women charged with original indictments were dropped when Dist. Court Judge Sylullan ruled them invalid because the grand jury hadn't been properly selected.
WASHINGTON-Vice President-designate Nelson A. Rockefeller has called for immediate heartbags by the two congressional committees that heard him speak. He said he was being tried in the press without a chance to present all the facts. His aides said he telephoned Senate Rules Committee Chairman Howard W. Cannon, Judiciary Committee Chairman Rodin and Judiciary Committee aide said no hearings were planned for today.
Frates said that in the spring of 1973 Dean
released "the house of cards was falling in
through."
Peace policu backed
White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman, former Atten. Gen. John N. Mitchell and Kenneth W. Parkinson, one-time attorney for Nixon's re-election committee.
RABAT, Morocco-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger received assurance yesterday from Col. Houari Bourmediene, president of Algeria, that Algeria, along with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, will back Kissinger's Middle East peace strategy and try to stave off another oil price increase. Bourmedienne is one of the most influential and radical Arab leaders.
It was then, said Frates, that Dean went
lawyers and began bargaining with the
court.
But the prosecutors wanted worthwhile information. Frates said, and Dean offered additional details.
In reality, according to Frates, Dean had done on his own those acts he told the prosecutors Erlichman had ordered him to do.
"Remember," Frates told the jury of nine women and three men, "Dean was working as the President's lawyer under the President's direction."
Frates said Ehrlichman never ordered Dean to destroy evidence, never attempted to obtain coverup funds from the CIA and wanted to buy the silence of the break-in defendants.
Frates said that on April 30, 1973, Ehrlichman submitted his resignation to Nixon.
"They called it a resignation but it was a forced resignation," he said.
Frates promised to present evidence that, in an unrecorded conversation on that day, Nixon told Ehrlichman, "John, you've been my conscience, but I didn't follow your advice. It's all my fault. If I'd only followed you, we wouldn't be in this situation."
"He (Ehrichman) was forced to resign so the heat would be taken off the President.
Secrecy stressed in coverup trial
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Judge John J. Sirica, a stranger to Watergate cases, is handling lawyers in the current coverup trial like a ringmaster with new lions. He's mixing a lot of experience with an abundance of caution.
"There's never been a case like this in the history of our country—at least in jadication," he said Tuesday in stopping lawyers that had the makings of an aquabble.
The Sirica of old was fond of saying that any judge who made his decisions with one eye on the appeals court wasn't doing his job.
Now he appears to be acutely conscious of the strong possibility that the final decision
on the five defendants before him may rest not with the jury, but with higher courts.
Throughout the pretrial maneuverings and in two weeks of jury selection, Sirica imposed secrecy unlike any ever seen in this court. Before the jury was sequestered, we saw how many had passed the closed-door secrecy or how many remained to be selected.
On Monday, even with the jury out of reach of news media, he refused to say the ground on which motions for dismissals were made by lawyers.
"I don't want to say anything that will contribute any further to publicity," he said.
When the government opened its
argument to the jury, opposing lawyers objected to some things said by Asst. Prosecutor Richard Ben-Venise. Sirica refused to step in, saying he wanted to give the prosecution as much latitude as possible.
The government raised the same objections Tuesday when it was the turn of the defendants' lawyers to address the jury. The court's ruling that both sides should have the greatest latitude.
Sirica said the matter might as well be settled right then.
"I don't say I haven't made any mistakes," he said. "There may be many mistakes in every case I've participated in as a judge. I've tried to object about
Court declines to rule on bugging
From the Associated Press
The court's surprise decision upholds the conviction of Igor A. Ivanov, who was found guilty 10 years ago of spying for the Soviet Union
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court declined to rule yesterday on whether federal agencies need authorization from a court to detect efforts to offset spy by foreign nowers.
Drug developed to induce loss of bad memory
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Doctors are experimenting with a memory-erasing drug that can rid a surgical patient of unpleasant memories of the operating room.
Called lorazepam, the drug still is experimental and available only for medical use.
When the drug is administered intravenously before surgery, a patient can remain awake in the operating room under anesthetic and not remember the experience.
The drug's researchers, Dr. Daniel Heisterkamp and Dr. Peter Cohen, of the University of Colorado Medical Center, reported yesterday on their research during a meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
The doctors said the drug was under consideration by the Food and Drug Ad-
Heisterkamp and Cohen said the drug might have other applications in medicine.
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It had been widely assumed that the court would review the case because attorneys for both Ivanov and the Justice Department had asked it to.
Three justices—William O. Douglas,
William Stuart—broke away the Potter
Stover decision in appealing the appeal.
The court doesn't hear a case, however,
unless four justices approve the request.
Marsall was solicitor general when the Ivanov case was appealed to the Supreme Court the first time in 1969. The case was dismissed in 1972, and whether there had been illegal wiresmans
court order requiring the builders of the line, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., to pay costs of a lawsuit that delayed its construction.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, who frequently sides with Dozens and Brennan, has become an uncontested voice in the court.
In other action, the court upheld the constitutionality of the agreement and agreed to review a lower
The court agreed to review a decision curbing the power of congressional committees to obtain information on controversial organizations. The decision stemmed from an appeals court ruling barring the Senate Internal Security Committee from subpoenaing bank records of the United Servicemen's Fund.
The court also agreed to decide whether taxpayers may sue the Internal Revenue Service to block collection of taxes. Such action is forbidden by a provision in the IRS code.
All of the court's actions were released in brief statements with little or no explanation.
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the case and to keep an open mind—this case isn't any different as far as I'm concerned from any other case although some people might think otherwise.
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"These people must get a fair trial and that is what gives the American people respect in the federal court system. I intend to be the face of my attitude as they are entitled to," Sirica said.
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"In simple terms, John Ehrlichman had been had by his boss who happened to be the President of the United States," Frates said.
Mardian's attorney. Bress, told the jury.
"The government did wrong in naming Mardian as a defendant."
Mardian ended up as a coordinator of political activities in Western states and as such, said Bress, had no part in policy decisions. He says nothing about political intelligence plans.
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