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KEY B1SCAYNE, Fla.-President
Nixon's chief lawyer said Sunday reports
that two subpoenaed presidential tape
recordings may have been doctrlS
"utterly false." James D. St. Clair said "he"
would request an investigation into leaks
from the Watergate grand jury to halt such
insinuations
St. Clair said one member of the panel of
experts examining the Watergate tape
recordings had expressed an opinion many
w eeks ago" that two of the tapes could be re
recordings. However, St. Clair said a technical
investigation ordered by the White House
showed the conditions which aroused the
unnamed panel member's suspicions
were actually characteristic of the recorder
on which the original recordings were made.
St. Clair and White House counsel J. Fred
Gas 'pumpout' strike
threatens to spread
A "pumpout" strike by service stations
threatened to spread across the nation
Sunday, further plaguing motorists
experiencing one of the worst gasless holiday
weekends ever.
A penny a gallon gasoline price increase
okayed by federal officials for more than half
the dealers in the country to make up for
dwindling profits was poorly received by
most service station organizations.
Shutdowns of Virginia's Tidewater'service
stations threatened to snowball as
discouraged gasoline retailers searched for
methods to voice their complaints.
Organizers said the strike had been 50-80
per cent successful in the Tidewater areas,
and in Harrisburg, Pa., not a single gas
station was open Saturday. Police said some
threats had been reported against service
stations that stayed open.
Virginia's gas dealers group said more
than half the service stations in the state
could be closed by the end of the week.
A group of 46 gasoline dealers in
Greenwich, Conn., said they would shut
down their pumps Tuesday until the federal
government lifts the ban on preferential
treatment for regular customers.
In the Northwest, the Evergreen Service
Station Association representing dealers
who pump 70 per cent of the gasoline in
western Washington and Oregon said they
would begin a "pumpout" of all their
gasoline supplies at midnight Sunday then
shut down unless agreement was reached
with federal energy officials investigating
their complaints against irregular and
insufficient deliveries.
Motorists lined up for a quarter of a mile
outside some gas stations in- PortlanoVOre.,
to i fill up while they could." -
Buhardt Jr. were summoned to Key
Biscayne by President Nixon who reportedly
was en raced a Washington Post report
which said suO-,ons had been raised among
the tape Opens that the recordings
relinquished by the White House to
Wssscs&frnvestigators were re-recordings
and nor originals.
"Because there has been so much
speculation in recent weeks concerning these
tapes, 1 cannot let another round of such
inaccuracy and innuendo go unchallenged."
St. Clair said stories like the one in the
Post could only impair the work of the grand
jury seeking to determine the authenticity of
the recordings and added:
"I intend to discuss this matter promptly
with the Department of Justice and request
that an investigation be instituted as to the
person or persons who may have violated
legal constraints in referring to matters
within the purview of the Grand Jury.
l am absolutely confident that when all
the facts are known the authenticity and
integrity of the tapes turned over to the court
will be clearly established."
In addition to denying that any report by
the court-appointed experts "tentative or
otherwise" suggested any re-recordings, St.
Clair also said he could shed additional light
on another controversial recording the
18'$ minute gap in the tape of a conversation
Nixon had with his former assistant. H.R.
Haldeman. on June 20. 1972.
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Challenge seen
WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary
George P. Shultz conferred with White
House officials Sunday to determine
whether the adminsitration will challenge an
order issued by the comptroller general to
end Secret Service protection for former
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
There were indications that the
administration might for the first time
challenge the authority of the comptroller
general, head of the General Accounting
Office!. G AO), a congressional watchdog, to
rule expenditures illegal.
WASHINGTON Hying directly at the
White House through a hail of buckshot, a
distraught soldier crash-landed a stolen
Army helicopter on a lawn 100-yards short
of the President's residence Sunday morning
in the finale to a wild, aerial joy-ride.
No one was hurt seriously in the 2 a.m.
ED I shootout. Secret Service shotgun ncrs
punched holes in the sides of the oncoming
Army Huey" helicopter, forcing it to
bounce down tail-up on the South Laun of
the White House, and tackled the struggling
pilot.
Officials identified him as Pfc. Robert K.
Preston. 20. of Panama City. Fla.. a
helicopter repairman from Fort Meade, Md.
and a would-be pilot who reportedly was
upset about flunking out of Army Plight
school.
President Nixon and his family were out
of town at the time of the incident.
Secret servicemen bundled Preston off to
Walter Reed Army hospital where,
according to Army sources, he entered
laughing like hell." He was treated first for
superficial buckshot wounds and later held
for psychiatric examination.
"lie's a helluva pilot especially for a
Pfc." who has no pilots qualification, said
Don L. Sewell. a Maryland state police
chopper pilot who chased Preston helplessly
on an hour-long buzzing spree that led from
Fort Meade to the White House.
Sewell said he hovered alongside Preston
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Wire Editor
Encouraged Hearst works on ransom Mitchell tliol to begin
SAN FRANCISCO Heartened by his kidnaped daughter's latest words and her
abductors' willingness to compromise, publisher Randolph A. Hearst worked
Sunday on the "details and mechanics" of a massive food giveaway.
The family was obviously relieved by a tape recording delivered Saturday in which
Patricia Hearst, 19, assured them she was being well treated by members of the
terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army.
Government to shift gas allocations
WASHINGTON Deputy energy chief John Sawhiii said Sunday the government
will announce Tuesday a 1 per cent or 2 per cent shift in the allocation of gasoline
designed to cut down on the "intolerable" lines for gas before March.
Sawhiii said the Federal Energy Office (FEO) was preparing the reallocation plan
so "those areas of the country that are really experiencing acute shortages" wilt have
more of the scarce fuel.
Scientists find 'Lost World' plant life
CARACAS A scientific expedition that plunged into the "Lost World" jungles of
the Venezuelan-Brazilian border area 10 days ago reported Sunday finding new
plant life previously unknown to man at the bottom of a deep cave.
".We did not find any dinosaurs," David Nott, British Journalist and mountain
climber told UPI.
Nott said the first phase of the adventure had .been completed without major
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Investigation Squad Winston Cavin will form a group of experienced,
specialized reporters to investigate, in depth, issues that affect students,
such as campus food service, on and off-campus housing, etc.
Formation of a news-cooperative with major N.C. universities as a
means of providing news of other schools that may affect Carolina
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NEW YORK- in what could be one of
the most explosive trials on the current
Watergate-tainted political scene, former
Nixon Cabinet officers John N. Mitchell and
Maurice H. Stans go before the bar Tuesday
on charges of conspiracy, obstructingjustice
and perjury.
John W. Dean III, former White House
counsel and President Nixon's chief
Watergate accuser, is expected to testify
against the pair. Others figuring in the case
include two of Nixon's brothers and a
nephew.
Dean is considered a crucial prosecution
witness. The defense has tried unsuccessfully
to have his testimony barred.
Mitchell and Stans. who headed up
Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972, are the
first cabinet officers indicted in 50 years. The
trial will begin in a court room of Federal
Courthouse on Foley Square.
Mitchell, 60, a former attorney general in
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trying to influence a major federal
investigation of millionaire financier Robert
L. Vesco.
ECU hearings set
RALEIGH A three-day hearing on the
controversial issue of expanding the one
year medical school at East Carolina
University will highlight the activities in the
North Carolina General Assembly this week.
Following two lengthy closed door
sessions last week between proponents and
opponents of the issue, legislative leaders
announced they had been unable to reach a
compromise with the University of North
Carolina Board of Governors and slated
public hearings on the issue for Tuesday,
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a few fect above the lawn at the Washington
monument as the soldier took his final bead
on the White House and roared in just high
enough to clear the steel picket fence.
"From my indications, his intention was
to fly the aircraft directly into the White
House." Sewell said. But shotgun fire
brought him up short and Secret Service
agent Jack Warner said Preston's craft then
"appeared to land on its own."
"II he had not harrassed the citiens of the
state of Maryland as he did. and had not
made such a big show of it. . . the rruin
could have flown directly into the White
House at 1 60 miles per hour and there
wouldn't have been anything anybody coukl
do." Sewell said.
As recounted later by Army officials, the
pilots pursuing him and the shotgunners
who cut off his final run at the White House.
Preston had:
Swiped an unarmed UHIB "Huey"
transport helicopter, from Fort George
Meade. Md.. about 12:30 a.m.
Flew toward Washington at speeds
ranging from 80 to 120 mph and heights
ranging from hundreds of feet to car-top
levels, buzzing traffic along the highways
and at one point clipping the aerial off a
police car.
Feinted one of the two state police
helicopters chasing him right off the trail
with what admiring pilots described as
"modern dogfight tactics" and reached the
capital with only Sewell on his tail.
"He came down the Baltimore
Washington Parkway and then flew
downtown." state policeman William Clark
said. "He then turned on all his lights and
hovered five minutes at the Washington
monument grounds seven feet off the
ground.
"Then he flew across to the White House
like he was going to crash into it."
Clark said Preston "lowered to three feet"
before the Secret Service shotguns tore half-dollar-sized
holes in his fuselage. " I he
copter bounced around on the lawn and the
Maryland helicopter flown by Sewell landed
between it and the White House." he said.
Army spokesmen at Ft. Meade confirmed
Preston had washed out of Ft. Walters.
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