Wdnday, January 9, 1974
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Compiled by Tom Sawyer
Wire Editor
Impeachment report requested
rW?,H,,MGT0N (UPI)-The House Judiciary Committee staff investigating the
possiole impeachment of President Nixon has been instructed to report "within a
matter of a couple of weeks" on what charges would warrant such action, a panel
member said Tuesday.
Rap Robert McClory of Illinois, second-ranking Republican on the committee,
esics the group received its Instructions during a closed meeting Monday.
Duke Power Co. praises conservation
CHARLOTTE (UP!) Duke Power Co. customers saved the firm 100,000 tons of
coal and 9 million gallons of fuel oil last month.
"It's obvious that people have responded to requests of the President," Toomey
said. "Through conservation publicity...there has been a great big push and people
hive responded."
National Guard 'was not threatened'
CLEVELAND (UP!) A former Kent State University employe testified to a federal
grand jury Tuesday that he did not see any actions which "threatened" National
Guard troops the day they shot dead tour students almost four years ago.
ul did not think the Guard was threatened at all that day," William J. McGuire said
he told the 23 grand jurors reinvestigating the May 4, 1970, slayings during a campus
demonstration.
Wounded tCnee trial begins
ST. PAUL, Minn. (UP!) The trial of Wounded Knee leaders Dennis Banks and
Russell Means opened amid tight security Tuesday In U.S. District Court with Judge
Fred Nichol questioning the first of the potential jurors for two hours.
Banks and Means are charged in 10-count indictments with assault, possession of
Illegal firearms, burglary, larceny, conspiracy and other offenses stemming from the
71 -day occupation of the hamlet of Wounded Knee, S.D., last year.
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on releases wlhflte papers
SAN CLEMEN! E. Calif. (UP!) . The
White House acknowledged Tuesday that
President Nixon knew in advance the dairy
industry planned to contribute to his 1972
campaign, but said charges that this
prompted him to raise federal milk price
supports were "totally false."
High administration officials said
Republican congressional leaders were
contacted early Tuesday and told that papers
would be released about the controversial
milk fund and II I cases "from the
perspective of what the situation is. what
policy the President based his decision and
what the results are."
The officials said that Nixon will take up
some time later the allegation concerning
other aspects of the Watergate scandal but
"does not want to interfere with the judicial
process."
The spokesman indicated that by releasing
the documents, the President would wrap up
"Operation Candor" and will begin to
concentrate on the problems facing the
nation in 1974.
The official said that the papers "show as
in every other allegation that the charges
against the administration are utterly false."
He said that the .White House will not
provide tapes and other documents in this
matter because they have been turned over to
special Watergate prosecutor Leon
Jaworski.
Somewhat irately, the officials said that in
the "whole area of maligning the President,"
Nixon simple would npt put up with any
further allegations.
He said that the GOP congressional
leaders have been informed by White House
aides that the President now hopes to turn
his attention to major domestic and foreign
problems and not Watergate.
"We're not goingtotakcany stepsthat will
interfere with the judicial process." the
official said.
' But he added that the charges relating to
ITT and the milk industry will be proved
"wrong" by the issuance of the documents.
"In relation to Watergate itself . the
President will have something to say in the
future." the official said.
On hand to help other presidential
advisers to make the decision to release the
papers at this time was counselor Bryce
Harlow who conferred with Nixon here
earlier Tuesday before flying back to
Washington.
i n had pledged S4UO.MX) io help finance
the 1972 Republican National convention.
There were allegations that the contribution
was pledged alter I IT got an out-of-court
settlement of an antitrust case against it.
In the case of the dairy industry there were
charges that dairymen contributed about
S420.XX) in exchange for an administration
decision to increase milk price supports
which brought in an additional S4tK million
to S7(M) million in increased revenues.
British soldiers on nationwide alert
LONDON (UPI) British soldiers were
reported Tuesday to have been placed on a
nationwide alert in an effort to avert attacks
by Arab guerrillas or the Irish Republican
Army (IRA).
One military spokesman said troops
secretly were put on an alert two stages from
a wartime footing last Fridav. but the
defense ministry later said that "it is quite
untrue" that precautions were that intense.
Leaves in all three branches of the armed
forces have been curtailed and armed guards
stationed at the entrances to all m'tlitarv
bases, sources said.
World energy summit planned
SAN CLEM EN IE. Calif. (UPI)
President Nixon may summon world leaders
to meet in Washington for an international
conference on the energy crisis, the White
House said Tuesday.
Deputy press secretary Gerald L. Warren
said, "Nothing is firm and. ..it would be
incorrect to say world leaders had been
invited. But there are a number of things
under consideration and this. I would think,
would be within the realm of those which are
under consideration."
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger told
a news conference Thursday Nixon would
start taking "new initiatives" withing a week
to ease the energy crunch.
More than 400 police and combat troop
with tanks set up roadblocks Saturday
around Heathrow airport in the toughest
security measures since World War II.
Security there was intensified Tuesday lor
the arrival of Israel's new ambassador.
Gideon Rafael, sources said.
The ministry of defense, while declining to
discuss the exact state of readiness, issued a
statement I uesdav saving. "AH Ministry ol
Defense establishments and all service units
in the United Kingdom have been alerted to
the dangers of postal and parcel bombs, car
bombs and other terrorist activities in
exactly the same way as the police have
alerted the public to these dangers.
Adding to the possibility ol Arab guerrilla
attacks, several individual officers have been
targets in a bomb wave attributed to the IRA
that has injured Kl persons since Dec. 17.
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