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Show Pasett THE HFP,!.D Pttvp Vv n r-H- ?T Nixon Won't Answer Questions on Watergate By HELEN THOMAS ITI White Houte Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) -Richard Nixon will not discuss Watergate anymore because he's covered it "as well as I can" in the past 10 years and says he will not be critical of his former vice president, Spiro Agnew, because "he's suffered enough." The former president this week answered questions at an American Society of Newspaper Editors lunch after delivering a speech on Central America, foreign policy generg ally and how to improve U.S. Soviet relations. The first question harked deter-ioriatin- -- back to November when 1973 "I lived it at the time and lived it in my memories and recent broadcasts," he replied. "As far as I'm concerned, I've covered the subject as well as I can. I think 10 years of Watergate is enough. I'm concerned with the future, not the he addressed an audience of newspaper executives in Orlando, Fla., and declared: "I am not a crook." Nixon was asked what was the most significant lesson learned from the Watergate scandal in terms of its impact questions about Agnew, who resigned under fire in 1973, one year before Nixon quit. "I'm not going to kick him around any more," Nixon said. "As far as I'm concerned, he's suffered enough." Agnew pleaded no contest to income tax evasion charges, and under the plea arrangment past." on the presidency. Nixon also shunted aside was fined but received no jail term. Asked for bis political predictions, he predicted Walter Mondale will win the Democratic nomination on the first ballot and that the race against President Reagan will be "closer than they think." He addeo, however, "I think Reagan will win because he's a better candidate." A woman vice presidential candidate would not help Mondale, he said, because, "activist-t- Excerpts From Nixon Speech - WASHINGTON (UPI) Excerpts of Richard Nixon's remarks to the American Society of Newspaper Editors: relations : There is no chance for real peace to be built in the world unless "a new relationship is established between the Soviet U.S.-Sovi- et Union and the United States. The chances that that new relationship might be developed in this election year are quite gloomy." Some think the Soviet boycott of the Olympics was 'tit for tat.' I disagree. I think we have to realize this is an election year and as long as the polls show his opponent have any chance to defeat him, the Soviets are not going to do anything to help him. I do not think they can hurt him, how- ever. As the Soviet Union has gobbled up country after country, it has acquired what I would call a case of acute international indigestion. The Soviet economy is dead in the water. It's plagued by corruption. It's plagued by shortages. The Chinese will be a superpower in the next century and therefore are a threat to the Soviets. The Soviets are good at getting power, and keeping power. I know the Russians. You don't have to convince them we're for peace. You have to convince them they can't win a war. The Russian people are great people. The Russians and Americans can be friends but because of our irreconcia-bl- e difference our governments cannot be friends, in which we negotiate our difference and learn to live with them rather than die with them. You can call this cold peace. You can call it detente, but it's infinitely preferable to nuclear annihilation. On politics: Former Vice President Wal ter Mondale "will be nomi- nated on the first ballot." In Reagan-Mondal- e debates, Mondale will win the debates and Reagan will win the audience. It's going to be a closer election than they think. I think Reagan will win because he's a better candidate." of women are already" backing him. He predicted Mondale "will bow toward women and not take one on the ticket because it wouldn't help him." ype ill p On the press: I don't think the press has changed. I probably have changed some. There has to be an adversary relationship between the president and the press. Reagan knows how to handle the media. I cherish many friendships in the press although they may not be my supporters on issues, and if they gave it to me, I gave it back. I did not make up the enemies list. I'm not suggesting that those on the list in the media were all friends. I was president during a controversial period. Nixon said Mondale could name either Gary Hart or Sen. as his Lloyd Bentsen, running mate, but speculated Hart would be more helpful to the ticket. He predicted Mondale would win presidential debates but Reagan "would win the audi- ence." v re5 em other matters, Nixon On said he: ) Did not make up the "enemies list," but that doesn't vs J mean that all the media names on the list were his friends. "I was president at a controversial period," he said. "They didn't like what we were trying to do. I have no enemies in the press corps." Richard Nixon 'Nixes' any more questions about Watergate. Methodists Stun Delegates With Homosexual Ruling By DAVID E. ANDERSON UPI Religion Writer BALTIMORE (UPI) - The United Methodist Church's judicial council stunned delegates to the general conference Thursday by ruling that legislation it passed, aimed at barring homosexuals from the ministry, is not legal. "Neither ordination nor adding a gleness" the council ruled. ap- pointment of practicing homosexuals is necessarily precluded by the words 'fidelity in marriage and celibacy in sin self-avowe- Conservatives who oppose ordination of homosexuals said they n would try to the debate and push for a specific prohibition in language that was defeated narrowly r three-hou- during Wednesday's debate on the issue. The council's decision the thorny and divisive question of ordaining to the ministry and appointing homosexuals to church an issue leaders thought jobs they had resolved Wednesday by seven-wor- on phrase d fidelity and celibacy to the church's Book of Discipline regarding qualification for the ministry. It also noted that under the church's constitution it is the Annual Conference, the equivalent of a diocese, and not the General Conference, the equivalent of the national church, that "as the basic body of the church ... de- cides whether those (ordination) standards have been met." Steak and what? Wind Gust Brings Jumper's Death AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. A sudden wind gust collapsed the parachute of an Air Force captain, sending him hurtling to his death in the second parachuting fatality at the Air Force Academy in its history, a spokesman said Thursday. A second man whose parachute also was caught by a wind gust was injured in a separate jump at (UPI) 26-ye- the same time Wednesday, the spokesman said. Capt. Michael E. Dionne, 34, of Orlando, Fla., who died at the Air Force Academy Hospital, and the injured man. Senior Master Sgt. Michael Copple, 40, of Joplin, Mo., who was treated and released, both were academy parachuting instructors. n Academy spokesman Will said the two men were Ket-terso- Saltair Dreams Turn Into Nightmare From Floods SALT LAKE CITY ohn Silver's boyhood (UPI) -J- dream of owning a- resort on the shore of the nation's only inland body of salt water was finally realized last year only to be dashed by the cruel waves of the Great Salt Lake. Saltair Resort, first built in 1893, has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. It has been bought and resold and ravaged by fire, neglect and rot. Now the - completely rebuilt recreation mecca is awash in the swelling lake, rising with each day's mountain snowmelt. "We're trying to get a dike around it, but we don't have the money." said Silver, 74. who has made recreation on the lake's south shore his life's venture. "We've had an awful lot of damage. The storm we had April 9 punched holes in the back of the building and damaged three of the shops. Another storm April 24 took the partitions out cf the walls. "We're hoping we can still save the structure and renovate it for future use, but the interior facilities are pretty much destroyed." Silver, who has always wanted to own Saltair, began putting together a plan to rebuild it when the last Saltair, abandoned for several years, burned to the ground in 1957. In the late 1970s, he entered into partnership with developer Wally Wright. The two, sharing the wish to realize the same dream, obtained a $2.5 million industrial revenue bond. They leased the land from the state and then built a Disney-lik- e three-stor- y building on the lake's south shore, with its spires, like those of the Taj Mahal, towering above the salt flats. Inside, they built a massive dance hall, several novelty shops and a snack bar. Next door was a spiraling water slide. Their intent was to lure business by merging the entertainonce a popular ment of Saltair setting for the country's entertainers with the recreation of Silver's lakeside marina and sailboat best-know- big-ban- d n "We opened early last year," Silver said. "High schools and colleges began renting our dance hall for school activities. We were beginning to attract good business. Then the floods came and we never could get off the ground." Last year's heavy runoff from d Wasatch Mounthe tains pushed the lake to its higha peak of est level in years 4.205 feet above sea level. Saltair's parking lot was submerged along with the sandy beaches that made the lake 20 miles west of Salt Lake City one of Utah's main tourist attractsnow-packe- ions. This year, the lake has risen to nearly 4.209 feet above sea level and is crashing against the building. On a windy day. waves smash through the walls and wash across the dance floor. "It has ruined the dance floor," Silver said. "The floor looks like a roller coaster now." The developers' million $2 worth of flood insurance ran out March 29. Eleven days later, the lake began to take a heavy toll. "It looks like we've lost out on the insurance coverage," Silver said. "It looks like we're stuck." Saltair was not the only lakeside business feeling the effects of heavy runoff. Several businesses at the south shore allow the lake's mineral-ric- h water to flow into their solar ponds, where the water is evaporated and the minerals diverted to plants for the production of magnesium, salt and fertilizers. "I think we're okay. We figured the lake would go to 4.209. And it's there. We built our dikes several feet above that." e apparently were caught by high wind gusts that caused their parachutes to collapse. Surface winds at the Colorado Springs airport, 15 miles away, were reported at 14 mph at the time of Also at the Sizzler... Now for your convenit iKc. we accept Visa and Mastercard credit cards, to inakedining easier at the Sizzler. the accidents. Higher 1240 So. State gusts occur frequently and suddenly in locations closer to the mountains like the academy. 01Ct)(Dlf rfflf ' I I ITT P (I on 00 CsInofs B Savo cp to fromom 'Bafts , ! rTTTr ReuM ir3 i 8 g XM double cW 1H A VS24 F3 lr 4 r VA M . rl 1J m - f-- 1 12 " .c- . 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