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Show Rogers Speaks Out on Watergate, Security a $ :A obsessed with matters connected with Watergate, saying this could have an adverse affect. the action is taken " Rogers, attorney general in Eisenhower administration, said that in determining when the government was justified in taking extralegal actions in the name of national security, it was very difficult to decide jus where to draw the line. Robers was asked to give his general views on the broad issues of national security. He hesitated to do so because this was Very dangerous terrain. On the other hand, Rogers said, the government and public should not become overly Generally speaking, I lean to strict observance of the legal position, he added. However, addressing mnj-sespecifically to the Watergate affair, Rogers said that he believed it was important not to get so obsessed with security matters that laws are freely violated. Rogers has said that while he was attorney general he approved of wiretaps in a WASHINGTON (I PI) -Sof State William P. ecretary Rogers said Monday while discussing Watergate that he felt it was important for tne government not to get so obsessed with security matters that laws are so freely violated At a news conference, Rog- ers said Great care should be shown before any extralegal lf limited number of cases" and Congress was always advised. He noted that the exact position on such activities had never been agreed and recent presidents in general had taken the position they were authorized to wiretap when national security interests were involved He added, however. I think extreme caution should be exercised before extralegal action is taken m the name of national that secuntv During the Watergate inves tigation, it was disclosed that telephones of several persons were tapped as pail 01 an administration effort as long as three years ago to determine the source of leaks of secret government information. Rogers said he thought there was no difference between public statements made by h'm and by President Nixon regarding the effect of Watergate on the conduct of American foreicn policy. When Nixon referred to U.S. foreign policy being sapped." Rogers said the President w as The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, August 21, referring to the fact that if uncertainty continued regarding support for the President by Congress and people of the United it States, a 1973 could adversely affect our foreign policy. Rogers said he did not think this conflicted with his statement that Watergate had not yet influenced foreign policy. Rogers also said: The situation in the Middle East is unstable and could be dangerous but the United States hoped at some a sense of reason" point would prevail on both sides and enable Israel and the Arabs to enter into negotiations. William P. Rogers Where to Draw Line? Serviceman Held on ' Spy Count (UPI)-- A WASHINGTON Air Force sergeant has been charged with espionage for allegedly trying to pass secret military documets to a Russian agent in New York last month, the Defense Department said Monday. Officials said Sgt. James D. Wood of Tacoma, Wash., was charged Friday under U S. military law and fie sections of the federal treason laws .one of which carries a maxi-mupenalty of death or life He was being imprisonment held at Ft. 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