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82nd Year Of Editorial Freedom
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, June 7, 1974
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WASHINGTON (UP1) President Nixon
was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator in the
Watergate cover-up last February by a
unanimous vote of a federal grand jury, White
House officials said Thursday.
James D. St. Clair, Nixon's Watergate
attorney, said the President was told three or
four weeks ago that the grand jury had named
him as an unindicted co-conspirator meaning
he was implicated in a criminal conspiracy but
faces no criminal penalties.
Nixon asked U.S. District Judge John J.
Sirica Thursday to formally make public a grand
jury document naming him as an unindicted co
conspirator. Nixon's chief defense attorney, James D. St.
Clair, told Sirica that there are no longer
"compelling" reasons to keep the co-conspirator
list secret since the news media disclosed
Thursday that the President's name was on it.
The grand jurors reportedly wanted to issue an
actual indictment against Nixon on charges of
obstruction of justice, but Special Prosecutor
Leon Jaworski talked them out of it by raising
the constitutional question of whether an
incumbent President can be indicted.
As a result, it was disclosed, the grand jurors
voted 19-0 last February to name Nixon as an
unindicted co-conspirator in conjunction with
the indictment handed down March I of seven
former presidential and re-election aides in the
Watergate cover-up conspiracy.
No unindicted co-conspirators were named in
the March 1 indictment, but Nixon reportedly
was one of several cited by the grand jury.
A sealed package of documents containing
evidence pertaining to Nixon's involvement in
the coverup went to Judge John J. Sirica at the
same time as the indictment. Sirica later gave
that material to the House Judiciary Committee,
which is investigating grounds for possible
impeachment of Nixon.
Attorneys for the Judiciary Committee ,.said
Thursday the document did not contain any
indication that Nixon had been named as an
unindicted co-conspirator. Several committee
members added that it would not affect their
deliberations.
The Los Angeles Times, which originally
reported the grand jury action, said Jaworski
first told defense attorneys about it during a'
closed hearing before Sirica in early May in
order to bolster his argument that Nixon should
not be allowed to quash prosecution subponeas
for tapes of 64 presidential Watergate-related
conversations.
But Nixon continued to fight the subpoena
and White House spokesman Gerald L. Warren
said Thursday that despite disclosure of the
grand jury action, the President's claim to
confidentiality "obviously stands." The Supreme
Court has agreed to rule on that claim.
The issue of unindicted co-conspirators was
raised by the original indictment, which accused
the defendants of conspiring with others "known
and unknown" to hamper the investigation of the
1972 Watergate break-in.
The defense filed several motions seeking to
learn the names of any unindicted co
conspirators and Jaworski, in briefs filed
Wednesday, said he would divulge them at some
point in the future. He apparently has tried to
delay such action until the Judiciary Committee
votes on an impeachment resolution.
St. Clair said that when Nixon was informed
of the grand jury action a few weeks ago he
replied: "They just don't have the evidence and
they are wrong."
"He's not a co-conspirator only because a
grand jury says he is," St. Clair said. "It won't be
the first time a grand jury was wrong and it has
no legal effect."
"I say it's unfortunate that this was released
because it leaves the President with really no way
of defending himself except the American
people."
But he added that he did not think the public
"is going to draw an inferences based on part of
the evidence."
Three members of the Judiciary Committee,
Reps. William S. Cohen, R-Maine, Tom
Railsback, R-lll.,and Jack Brooks, D-Tex.,said
they will judge Nixon independently of the grand
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Staff Writar
In spite of widespread criticism, UNC
Assistant Vice Chancellor John Temple says
he still "stands by the conclusions'" of his
pessimistic analysis of the Consumer
Utilities Corporation's bid for "three
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University-owned utilities.
Temple defended the analysis in an
interview and emphasized, that its purpose
was to point out facts which he felt were
pertinent to the Utilities Study Commission
in their current deliberations over who
should be allowed to purchase the University
utilities.
"1 felt that any information I had should
be made available to the commission,"
Temple said. "Seeing problems that would
come up for Consumers, for me to sit back
and not say anything would have been
ridiculous."
Temple's analysis was prepared in co
operation with the UNC business office and
has been labelled "biased and inaccurate" by
Orange County citizens who favor the
Consumers Corp. over the other bidders,
Duke Power and Southern Bell.
Asked if the analysis had damaged
Consumers' position as a bidder, Temple
replied, "I'm sure that it did. I don't know
that I created that damage though; I just
pointed out facts."
Temple said - he does not foresee
difficulties for Consumers in selling bonds to
purchase the utilities, but questioned the
public corporation's financial ability to
operate the utilities.
"I want to say one thing," he said. "I don't
want to destroy Consumers; I think they
could very well end up with the utilities, and
if so I'd wish them well. I just ask one thing,
that they'd be sure their projections are good
and that they can operate the utilities. I'd
suggest they check their projections."
Temple said he hadn't expected his
analysis of the Consumers bid to raise such a
controversy.
"I felt 1 simply presented facts. If I'd
presented fiction, I wouldVe expected it."
Listing- the University's primary
considerations in the utilities sale, Temple
said, "We want to arrive at a sale to the best
company, the one that will give the best
service at the most reasonable rates. I think
we should back off from political and
emotional considerations and objectively
determine which company has this ability."
Temple preferred not to give his opinion
on who should buy the utilities,
commenting, "It's not up to me to say."
He said the interests of the University and
the interests of the community in the sale are
one and the same and denied that the
University would receive any sort of
corporate discount from Duke that it would
not receive from Consumers.
Asked if he thought recent criticism of
. Duke Power's operating procedures should
figure in the choice of a buyer, Temple said,
"Whoever has the utilities is going to have to
buy power from Duke. So, as for
environmental problems, there's not any
difference. I don't see the elimination of any
of those problems by having Consumers
Utilities Corporation here. The problems
come in the production of power and not in
the distribution."
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by El'an Horowitz
Staff Writer
Plans for construction of two large
apartment developments in Carrboro
have been postponed because of a state
imposed moratorium on extension of
sewer service in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro, town officials say.
But University plans for new
infirmary and theater buildings do not
appear to be affected by the
moratorium, which will remain in force
until Chapel Hill's sewage treatment
facilities comply with state clean water
standards. Construction on the campus
projects is scheduled to begin early next
month.
The University construction projects
would tap existing main sewer lines,
which is permitted under the terms of
the moratorium. "It looks like the
University can go ahead and start
building," sewage plant director Dr. '
James Brown said Monday.
Carrboro Town Manager Bert
Chamberlin said Monday that the two
Carrboro apartment complexes were
postponed because they would tap new
sewer mains, which are currently under
construction. According to the state
Department of Water and Air
Resources, use of the new lines would
overload the Chapel Hill sewage
treatment plant at Morgan Creek.
The ban on sewer extensions was
imposed May 2 after state officials
declared the effective treatment capacity
of the Morgan Creek plant to be 2.5 to
2.8 million gallons per day, instead of
the 4.5 million gallons assumed by town
officials.
Installation of alum treatment
facilities at the plant, at an estimated
cost of $155,400, was approved May 27
by the Chapel Hjll Board of Aldermen
as. an emergency measure to lift the
moratorium.
This action prompted the state
Department of Water and Air
Resources to allow Carrboro to proceed
with construction of the last stage of the
town's in-town sewer system. However,
authorization for connections involving
the last-stage mains was withheld
pending installation of the alum
treatment and state testing of the
resultant effluent level in Morgan
Creek.
This restriction should freeze the
Carrboro developments until October
at the earliest, according to Joe Rose,
Chapel Hill's director of public works
and engineering services.
The cost for the alum treatment
facilities will be split among Chapel Hill
(50 per cent $15,540). Chapel Hill and
Carrboro will pay for their shares of the
project with federal revenue sharing
funds, but the source of the University
contribution has not yet been
announced.
Chapel Hill and UNC each own half
of the sewage plant, with service to
Carrboro provided under a contract
initiated last year. The town of Chapel
Hill was the only bidder for UNC's half
of the facilities, which are presently up
for sale along with other University
owned utilities. '
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Responding to charges by citizens that
Duke has not made provisions for Chapel
Hill's future water needs by committing
themselves to completion of the Cane Creek
reservoir, Temple said the University would
. make certain the matter was resolved before
signing a contract with anyone,.
He explained mathematically that the $2
million trust fund for the reservoir would be
returned to the University regardless of
whether Duke or Consumers bought the
water system and that both bids included the
value of the trust fund.
Temple questioned the opinion expressed
by many citizens at last Wednesday's public
hearing that Consumers would provide
better service than an out-of-town company,
explaining that Consumers will not benefit
from state support as the University has.
He said the rates are going to increase
regardless of who buys the utilities. Asked
which company would offer lower rates,
Temple said, "I honestly think it's going to be
close to the same." He noted that the only
savings Consumers would have in operating
costs as a public corporation would be
income taxes.
Temple estimated that the impact on
students would "not be very great in terms of
dollars one way or the other."
Looking forward to the commission's
impending recommendation of a buyer for
the utilities, Temple said, "I don't want to
argue it anymore. They have all the facts and
as far as I'm concerned, the commission can
decide for itself."
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Watching the grass grow
Judiciary Committee: direct evidence
--"Forth first time in 11 days of closed hearings, the Judiciary Committee received
evidence tying Nixon directly to two of the three dozen impeachment allegations
against him. He signed a memo in 1970 ordering domestic surveillance and ordered
other wiretaps. For details, see boxed story on page two.
Jury investigates Hearst's role in SLA
SAN FRANCISCO A federal grand jury Thursday studied 1 ,200 photographs of
Patricia Hearst and four Symbionese Liberation Army members taken during the
robbery of a San Francisco bank April 15.
The grand jury, impanelled two months ago, is investigating Miss Hearst's role in
the holdup, during which $10,SS0 was taken end two bystanders were shot and
wounded.
Miss Hearst- is wanted on 19 criminal counts including kidnaping and robbery in
connection with a series of incidents in Los Angeles May 16. A day earlier, six SLA
members, including four wanted for taking part in the bank robbery, were killed
during a shootout with police.
- Currently, the 20-year-old newspaper heiress, who was kidnaped last Feb. 4, is
wanted only as a material witness in the bank holdup. Authorities declined to charge
her with bank robbery previously, saying they wre unsure whether she was a willing
participant or whether she was coerced.
India ravished by smallpox epidemic
NEW YORK The chief United Nations expert on smallpox said Thursday that
India has been hit by a serious epidemic, but expressed confidence that the deadly
disease could be wiped out worldwide in a year.
Dr. Donald A. Henderson, head of the U.N. World Health Organization's smallpox
eradication program, said the number of persons to have died from smallpox in the
Indian state of Bihar is higher than the 10,000 officially registered.
He refuted, however, an earlier report by a WHO official that the outbreak is the
world's biggest since World War I.
Speaking from Geneva in a telephone interview with newsmen in New York and
Washington, Dr. Henderson said, "There's been a considerable outbreak of smailpox
this year in India, particularly in the state of Bihar and adjacent areas."
Although 10,000 deaths have been reported in Bihar, "undoubtedly the true
number Is higher than this," he said.
Henderson declared that "the situation is being magnified because we are now
getting a better accounting of the number of cases."
British troops seek to halt arms flow
BELFAST The British army said Thursday it was sealing off backroads and
tracks leading to the Irish Republic border near Londonderry in a move to halt
smuggling of guns, ammunition and explosives into Northern Ireland.
Troops studded the routes with cement blocks and other obstacles. But they left
unobstructed main highways which are frequently patrolled and checked, a
spokesman said.
The army reported sporadic shooting attacks on British troops during the night
No casualties were reported in shootings at Londonderry and Belieek, county
Fermanagh, 84 miles west of Belfast, and the troops, did not return fire, the
spokesmen said.
Dutch court sentences Arab guerillas
NETHERLANDS A Dutch court Thursday sentenced two Arab guerrillas to five
years imprisonment for hijacking a British Airways jetliner and setting it afire at
Amsterdam International Airport March 3.
Witnesses said Adnan Ahmad Nuri, 23, tpat on the courtroom floor as the sentence
was read. Sami Hussin Tamimah, 22, scared silently at the three-judge panel inside
the courthouse ringed with police and sharpshooters.
Nuri's lawyer, Paulus Heldlnga, said he did not know whether the Arabs would
cppeal the verdict, adding he m'ght withdraw from the case if they decided to do so
for "purely propaganda reasons."
Both Arabs maintained throughout their trial that they acted as "soldiers of.
Palestine" and not criminals.
Flowers placed on Kennedy's grave
ARLINGTON, Va. Members of the Kennedy family placed flowers on the grave
cf Robert F. Kennedy Thursday, the tlx ft anniversary of his essssslnatlon In Lcs
Angelas.
The lata senator's widow, Ethel, and brother, Ssn. Edward M. Kennedy, placed red
roses on his grave at Arlington National Cemetery aftervUltlng the grave of the other
assassinated brother, President John F. Kennedy.
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