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Thursday, October 3, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Watergate jury selection continues
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON —District Judge John J. Sirica completed the first phase of his search for an impartial jury in the Watergate cover-up trial Wednesday, and one of the defendants, John D. Ehrlichman, as grounds for dismissal of his case.
By the end of the trial's second day Sirica had narrowed several hundred prospective
jurors to 144 and was ready to start more detailed questioning today.
Ehrlichman said the White House plumbers case, in which he already stands convicted, was so inextricably linked to his own involvement in accusations violated his constitutional rights.
He said in a memorandum that as soon as a jury was chosen that his charges would be dismissed, the Watergate charges of
obstructing justice and conspiring to obstruct justice.
Meanwhile, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski filed a statement that said another person had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
A source close to the case identified the attacker as a special counsel to Nixon, whose resignation was approved.
from the White House was announced Wednesday.
More testified at the Senate Watergate hearings that counsel John W. Dean told Nixon the Watergate cover-up story after Moore urged him to do so.
He was involved in some of the conversations recorded by the White House and his testimony probably will be used in connection with the tapes.
House votes Nixon expense money cut
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The House voted overwhelmingly last night to slash former President Nixon's expense money to help him deliver the benefits to demi him all benefits, even a pension.
Despite some strongly worded denunciations of the former president, the House rejected 344 to 46 a cutoff of his $60,000 pension.
President Ford's $850,000 request for
Nixon had been chopped to $300,000 in
revenue.
Rep. Jerome R. Wadle, D-Calf, said his measure would be the House's only chance to register its verdict that Nixon's "service honorable, not deserving of reward."
$200,000 were proposed by Rep. Joseph P.
Addabbo, D-N.Y.,
The House approved 342 to 47 an amendment by Adaboat, to cut the $245,000 for cataloguing Nixon's nikes and papers and buying more than 500,000 letters to $100,000.
The House rejected 228 to 169 an amendment to cut all $245,000 of the request for cataloguing Nixon's papers, tapes and records and answering letters.
The vote was on the first of a series of amendments by opponents of President Ford's pardon of Nixon and of a Sept. 7 White House tapes, and control over his White House tapes, and
But the $8.4 billion supplemental appropriations bill bearing the Nixon money
Compromise bill will increase school benefits for Vietnam vets
Jury selection on the second day of the cover-up trial of former Nixon administration and campaign aides closely followed the pattern set on Tuesday.
Sirica told prospective jurors that the cover-up trial might last three or four months. She said the jurors and six witnesses would be separated from their families for the entire period.
WASHINGTON-House and Senate conferees agreed yesterday on a compromise bill to increase school benefits for Vietnam War bill veterans, by 23. per cent.
From the Associated Press
The total cost of the compromise bill would be $1.48 billion.
would receive $270 monthly under the
increase would be efficiently paid directly in
The five defendants at the cover-up trial are charged with conspiring to block the investigation of the June 1972 Watergate break-in.
A single veteran now getting $220 a month
In addition, the bill would establish a loan program of $600 for each veteran and would extend from 36 to 45 months the time an undergraduate could receive benefits.
A veterinarian with a wife would have benefits increased from $261 to $321 a month. A veterinarian with a wife and child would get $366 instead of $288 and would also get $23 instead of $18 for each dependent over the age of two.
According to committee sources, the Ford administration made a last-minute proposal to increase benefits 20 per cent, knock out the loan program and drop the extension of benefits from 36 to 45 months for undergraduates.
In addition, the administration wanted to delay the benefits increase until Jan. 1
In addition to Ehrlichman, they are former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman, former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell, former assistant Atty. Gen. Jack Mardell, Marcia Nixon, W. Parkinson, attorney for Nixon's re-election committee.
The House acted on the expense money for Nixon as Ford's historic appearance before a House Judiciary subcommittee to testify on his pardon of Nixon was scheduled for a week from Thursday. The session will be televised live.
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