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Show 2A DESERET NEWS, Wednesday, January 31 , 1 973 Watergate Defendants Found Guilty People A New Role WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Watergate bugging trial ended with a jury finding two former campaip aides to President Nixon pilty of political spying, but it will be up to Conpess to bring out the full k iyf&d' fy A For Connolly ? story. Deliberating only 90 minutes, a jury of eight women and four men brought the Combined Wire Services The New Yorit Times reported today that President Nixon has said his former treasury secretary John B. Connally would make a good Republican presidential candidate in 1976. Quoting high Republican sources, the Times said Nixon in a conversation with a visitor to the White House 'was understood to have indicated he preferred Connally, a Democrat, over Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. The sources said Apew associates believe Connally will be brought back into the cabinet as secretary of state in a White House move to put him in the forefront for the GOP nomination ahead of the vice president, the Times said. On Medical Ship The daughter of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew will embark Thursday on a cruise aboard the medical ship Hope for work with ambulatory children in South America. Susan Agnew resiped her staff position Tuesday at the Eastern Shore State Hospital in Cambridge. She had been an assistant coordinator of volunteer services at that institution for the past three years. Miss Apew says she hopes o learn basic nursing skills during her tour with the floating hospital. 'S 5 f h ' ( 7, t2 ' - j tnal to an end Tuesday by finding James W. McCord Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy guilty of all charges brought against them in the raid against the Democratic ' a , ' 4' j v6.vk,vwi. . National Committees Watergate headquarters June 17. Five other men earlier yA & ' AP Wlreohoto pleaded United Press International The humble hamburger appeared today to be replacing steak and roast beef in the esteem of thrifty housewives trying to beat the rising price of basic foods. Gov. Ronald Reagan says he is undecided wheth- to run for the U.S. Senate next year, but nothing can convince him to change his mind and seek a er third pbematorial term. The women found out the hard way through their what the government announced officially Tuesday, that food prices rose $8 to a record annual rate of $1,338 in December, according to a UPI survey of housewives around the country. There are a thousand ways to fix hamburger, said Mrs. Faye Wilson, 26, of Birmingham, Ala. Choice For ARC Com- st from Tacoma, Names Actor Sheila Scott, 40, named actor Chad Everett of the television series Medical Center in a paternity suit Tuesday in Los Angeles, saying Everett is the father of the child she expects in May. She said that she met Everett while working as an extra in the series. LEARY A plea of innocent was entered by the judge in - To Burger over $1.14 per pound. Eggs, up 12.7 per cent were Chicken and fish were relathe chief culprit in the rise of retail food prices. The Api- tively stable and were apculture Department report pearing more frequently on also showed retail food prices the dinner table. 0.6 per cent with beef prices We eat lots of chicken, and going up 2.3 cents a pound whole lot of hamburger, said over November to average 'Mrs. Margaret Voight of Hartsdale, N.Y. Mrs. Georgia Aasand of Montgomery, Ala., continues to buy beef for her husband and seven children but noted that with an electric knife you would not believe how thin you can cut meat. Thats been my lifesaver pock-etboo- Dixy Lee Ray, who says the Atomic Energy mission has a bad py" reputation it doesnt deserve, is reportedly President Nixons choice to take over as chairman of the agency. Dr. Ray, a marine biolo-gi- Miss Agnew n Steak Takes Back Seat Reagan Undecided - pilty. McCord, a former CIA and FBI operative who was chief of security for Nixons re- - Wearing green makeup and a homemade antennae, Martian Judith Schiedel asks her Whitaker Junior High health class at Salem, Ore., to describe an American family in terms so basic a resident of Mars could understand. news of their conviction with McCord, accused Sirica Tuesemotion. day of prejudicing the case by no visible Liddy, a former white House inand to as counsel as who served prosecutor aide acting Liddy stood with his arms the Nixon committee's finance vestigator from the bench. in front of his chest as crossed ' to ordered were frejail arm, Sirica during the trial the clerk read the verdict of without bond by U.S. Judge the that quently complained to each charge. pilty John J. Sirica. attorneys were not properly McCord stood next to him at From case. the developing rest and turned once Attorneys were expected to time to time, he took over parade and winked at his wife, Ruth, himof the for witnesses for bail file motions questioning who was sitting in the rear of self. men this morning. the courtroom. McCord and Liddy were The trial did not answer all Mrs. McCords lips tightened charged with burglary, conspi-rad-y the questions raised by the as the verdict was read, but at and illegal wire tapping. revelation of the break-idid not change expression. McCord was found pilty of the Democratic offices and she Afterwards she told reporters that could and receive counts reports subsequent press eight who asked for her reaction the Republicans had organized up to 45 years in prison and no comment, no a campaip to sabotage the no comment, $60,000 in fines. Liddy was alL comment at convicted of six counts and Democratic presidential priSirica thanked the jury for faces a maximum of 35 years maries. A Senate probe of the and $40,000 in fines. allegations is scheduled later their help during this long and may make new and difficult case where all of Appeals were expected on this year revelations. you have made a real contribehalf of both men. Gerald to justice.McCord and Liddy took the bution Alch, a defense attorney for election committee, and Wash., who was named to the commission by Nixon last summer, will replace James R. Schlesinger as chairman, congressional Mrs. Wilson, whose family consists of her husband Denand an 24, nis, added daughter, that she was making one meal dishes like stews and chili. Ive been cutting down on bacon and cutting down on eggs. eleven-month-o- ld sources revealed Tuesday. Schlesinger has been named director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Russ, Astros To - CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) Brig. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, Mercury astronaut Donald K. Slayton and rookie Vance D. Brand have been selected to meet two Russians in earth orbit in 1975 in the first international manned space mission. The Space Agency named the crewmen Tuesday and said they will start joint training with Soviet cosmonauts this summer at the manned spacecraft center in Houston. For Slayton, it will mark the end of a wait to fly in space. He is one of the original seven Mercury pilots but was pounded but a heart murmur in 1962 two months before he was to follow John Glenn into orbit. Meet In Space Slayton, director of flight crew operations in Houston, was returned to flight status last year after doctors found that his h.art conditions had disappeared. He will be 51 when his spacecraft is launched on July 15, 1975. Stafford, now 42, will command the modified Apollo that will fly to the unprecedented rendezvous and linkup with the Russians aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. Brand, 41, will serve as command module pilot and Slayton will be docking module pilot. NASA said the backup astronauts for the flight will be Skylab astronaut Alan L. Bean, Apollo 17 astronaut Ronald E. evans and Jack R. Lousma, another Skylab pilot. iFOR GENERAL INTEREST Nixon Flatly Says Hell Handle Budget - WASHINGTON -(AP) Resident Nixon declared today that the Conpess has not been responsible in fiscal natters and he will continue jo impound funds if it would mean increasing taxes. He maintained that is a presidential right made perfectly clear under the Constitution and that he plans to continue to submit budget recommendations that will be not for special interests, but for the general interest. Nixon flatly deciared that the general interest of the eountry rich, or poor or old, is don't break the family budget by raising taxes or raising prices. And he declared Im going to stand for that general interest. ' A Senate subcommittee, . ducting hearings on that conques-iio- n, was told Tuesday that one problem is whether con- - are fressional appropriations to spend a certain amount or a definition of the maximum that can be spent. The head of the General Accounting Office, Comptroller General Elmer B. Staats, said another question is wheth- er the presidents eonstitutiona authority to ensure all laws are faithfully executed implies authority to impound funds to keep within the public-deb- t J ceiling. j He said his office is not in a position to answer these legal issues, but the road is open to Conpess to be more explicit in legislation with respect lo spending levels. I President Nixon has refused ' to spend several billion dollars appropriated by Conpess for use this year. Nixon said he is feting to 1 control inflation. Ervins bill, bill introduced by Sen. Sam J. 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