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Show DESERET HEWS VO'.. 379 - NO. 94 72 PAGES Foods propel soaring costs - WASHINGTON (AP) Food prices climbed to record levels for the third straight month in March, propelling the cost of living to its highest level in 22 years, the government said today. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TEN CENTS FRIDAY, APRIL Founded 1850 when Utah territory was known as the 'State of Deseret METRO 20, 1973 Bugged Watergate over my veto, Mitchell says The Labor Departments Bureau of Labor Statistics said the cost of s of one per-- ' living jumped cent last month, the sharpest increase since February 1951, at the height of the Korean War inflationary period. Taking into account mormal seasonal fluctuations, the March ins of one percrease was cent, matching last Februarys jump which was the biggeat increase in 22 nine-tenth- - Former Atty. Gen. WASHINGTON (AP) John N. Mitchell was quoted today as accusing otner Nixon campaign officials of planning the Watergate bugging, and more extensive intelligence operations as well, over his was a report in The New York Times saying Mitchell told his friends that Jeb Magruder. and G. Gordon Liddv proposed bugging plans on three different occasions, and that he vetoed them. personal veto. Mitchell spoke to a reporter in the offices of federal prosecutors prior to an appearance before a federal grand jury. He confirmed a news account that he had told friends he was Mitchell's at the campaign, and has reportedly told prosecutors that the bugging operation was planned and approved by Mitchell and White House counsel John W. Dean III. Liddy was a lawyer for the campaign ami is serving a jail term after being convicted in the bugging conspiracy. Mitchells statement today seemed to conflict with a svvbrn statement he made in a civil case last Sept. 1, when he said he knew e of higher than Liddy who was involved in tlr burglary, wiretapping and bugging incident. Watergate ters Page eight-tenth- years. With prices soaring for meats and poultry, supermarket prices jumped 3.2 percent in March, a rate unequaled since the bureau began computing grocery prices in 1952. Seasonally adjusted, grocery prices were up 3.1 percent, also an all-tin- 'e high. cast of charac- A-- 8 attended three meetings at which plans to bug the Democrats were proposed, and had rejected the plans. I want to add the plans were not just to Mitchell said. They were bug somebody, for more detailed intelligence. We were not there just to discuss bugging. Mitchells conversation was cut short as the reporter, Lesley Stahl of CBS, was asked to leave. What Mitchell was quoted as confirming Magruder second-in-comman- no-on- But Mitchell said all his previous statements remained operative, particular ly his insistence that he didn't know about raid plans in advance. Mitchell, Magruder and Dean are now engaged in a argument, carried Today in the News Around the world through public statements and news leaks, over which ef them should bear blame out for planning the Watergate operation. In an interview on ABl radio. Mitchell said he had approved the Nixon committees but had intelligence gathering operation never authorized wiretapping or any other illegal activities. "They had' an intelligence gathering operating at the committee, and I came over there and the program contin- tied. Mitchell said. "With, jour approval?" asked ABC's Bill Matney. With my approval. You can't run a political campaign without information, Mitchell replied. Matney asked if Mitchell considered "whatever ssrveilhnce deve'oped in the Watergate situation to be legal. Wiretapping is illegal, as y j know, and we certainly were not authorizing any illegal activities, Mitchell said. Outside his home in Georgetown. II. R. See BUGGED, Page A-- three-cornere- d 3,638 receive degrees Drone craft Extend your intellectualism. Maxwell tells BYU grads keep eye on North Viets 0. Rea Deseret News staff writer By Dorothy PROVO To huddle in collegial contwithout extending oneself intellectually and socially merely because one has knowledge of key truths, is a betrayal of our trust. When one fails to stretch his natural faculties, his is a stewardship gone sour, This was part of the commencement message given at Brigham Young University today by Neal A. Maxwell, commissioner for the Church Education System, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints. The event, held in Marriott Activity Center, honored 3,638 graduates, their friends, families and faculty. Joining Dr. Dallin H. Oaks, university president, in the academic procession were church leaders, members of the board of directors, honorary degree winners, faculty and graduates. Jeffrey G. Boswell, representative of the graduating class, responded for his classmates. The A-- 3 of Pres. Dallin Oaks, Pres. Aar ion G. .Romney lead procession of more than 3,600 graduates at commencement exercises this morning. BYU so concerned. But emulatory deprivation-bei- ng without models and exemplars maybe the greatest deprivation of all. Vietnam Although reconnaissance flights were not mentioned in the agreement, specifically Friedheim acknowledged at a briefing that such flights technically would be barred under the terms of that pact. s U.S. attacked Communist positions on the east bank of the Mekong River today only six to eight miles from Phnom Penh. It was one of the closest strikes to the Cambodian capital since the Communist miliA large tary offensive began in late January. and Cambodians of antigovernment force their North Vietnamese allies are strung out along both banks of the Mekong. For emulators not only show us that walking the straight and narrow way is pos sible, but. just as importantly that it is worth doing. We can continue to cross cultures more easily than the world crosses cultures in order to help each other. We can, because of common commitments, help each True scholarship, he explained, includes the ability to distinguish between fact and fancy and to know which facts are worthy of fidelity. The Gospel of Jesus calls attention to the reality that some truths are simply and everlastingly more significant than others, he said. Robert D. Carleson, special assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare for welfare matters, announced the proposed changes. These regulations were requested by the suites and are desiglysd to give the states ad ditional tools to eliminate errors in the fare system and in effect clean it up, said. wel- he Carleson said the proposals include provisions to: Give states 45 days instead of the curCO to make decisions on applications. Catherine Jermany of the Welfare Rights Organizations legal committee, said this would cause extreme hardships for the poor. She said landlords, utilities and other would be less likely to provide service to a person who would not know for 45 days whether he would receive welfare money. rent Require welfare applicants to submit k written, signed applications for aid. Permit states to verify eligibility through employers, neighbors and other third parties without obtaining the recipients consent. Regulations which now say that an aged, blind or disabled applicant shall be the only source of information about himself would be revoked. Set up a system of local hearings to reduce the backlog of pending hearings at the state level. Carleson said this backlog has meant that ineligible .recipients continue to receive welfare for long periods until hearing examiners get to their cases. Allow states to recover overpayments from individuals, even by taking the money from current assistance checks. Former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner remained free and still drawing the salary of a federal judge today following his sentencing to three years in prison for accepting payoffs from horse racing interests. (Above, middle, he is driven away from the Federal Building in Chicago.) My real punisent, deserved or not, has already Kerner said after being sentenced and been inflicted, fined $50,000. He said the verdict, reached two months ago by a federal jury, deeply and irreparably tainted the good reputation that I cherished. Just hop around to keep warm other without condescension. Welfare eligibility to narrow? The administraWASHINGTON (UPI) tion has proposed sweeping changes in welfare regulations designed to halt payments to ineligible persons, overpayments and other inefficiencies. After they were announced Thursday the proposed rules were immediately criticized for the National Welfare by a spokesman Rights Organization (NWRO), who said they would create hardship for the poor. south-centr- e 27 fighter-bomber- this regard, we worry about sensory deprivation because of noise pollution, about nutritional deprivation beand we are right to be cause of poverty Thunderstorms roaming the midcontinent spawned a tornado that injured 17 persons in Oklahoma today while a winter-likstorm buried parts of the Rockies and northern Plains under heavy snow. And flooding continued in the South, where residents of Morgan City, La., are leaving town in the threat of a flood crest on Saturday. (Above, Louisiana wildlife agents pull a deer to safety after it was trapped in high waters from opening of the Morganza Floodway.) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by ground, air and naval forces, wherever they may be based. chemistry in Another weekend of armed confrontation appears to face the government at Wounded Knee where a tense cease-firremained in effect today after federal officers and occupiers of the South Dakota village exchanged gunfire earlier in the week. Federal negotiator Stanley Pottinger, citing a growing feeling of impatience from Indians who once lived in Wounded Knee, said an angry acgroup of Indians has warned him they would take tion on their own unless the government takes steps soon to end the armed occupation. peace agreement signed requires the United States to stop all its military activities against the territory Jan. ... Ironically, analysis, Page This development appeared to be the latin a series of Nixon administration moves designed to warn North Vietnam that the United States expects Hanoi to stop sending military equipment and men into South Vietnam and to halt military ground attacks in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. He said education should show a concern for both academic achievement and capacity to apply wise principles of behavior. Real individual freedom is not freedom a la carte not freedom apart from everything else not just the absence of re- ment. -ee- est Maxwell, in his commencement address, told the graduates, "We must be skilled enough to deal with tiie truth that is within reach of our natural faculties by discovering it in its many independent spheres, and yet be humble enough to be enlarged by a new set of discoveries, for without divine guidance, cerebral calisthenics can provide us with exercise but empty exercise. Speaking of the goals of the Church Education System, Maxwell said, We will continue to concern ourselves with moral education, since values affect everything else. We will continue to concern ourselves with the character and quality of those who teach, since a professor is his own final preach, The government has launched its rebuttal testimony against Daniel expected to take about a week in Los Angeles. in trial the Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Defense attorneys for Ellsberg and Anthony Russo Jr. wound up their case Thursday after presenting 27 witnesses in nearly eight weeks. The prosecutions prediction of a k-long parade of rebuttal witnesses appeared to dash earlier expectations that the trial would go to the jury next week. e controlled drone aircraft are being used rather than manned reconnaissance planes. They pointed out tht sending piloted reconnaissance craft over North Vietnam would risk their crews being killed or captured, something the Nixon administration wants to avoid. y choice; it is not an outcome to be achieved by itself alone. Free agency in its fullest sense requires the individual to be in command of himself, for one who is r prisoner of his bad impulses cannot really choose; a truth is that we either control our bad impulses or they control us. In Washington Across the nation Associated Press Cease-fir- e Spiritual counsel was given by President Marion G. Romney, counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints. He presided and conducted the exercises. in the The United States today won agreement to delete a United Nations Security Council resolution warning Israel that stern measures would follow a repetition of its April ltl commando rani on Beirut, diplomatic sources reported. U.S. Ambassador John A. Scab also won agreecouncil condemn all acts of ment to have the v iolence, and not violence. Israeli just e y straint. Freedom is the catalyst reported today. U.S. railroads want the government to approve a 5 percent freight rate increase that would produce $619 million a year in revenue. The railroads made the request i:: a petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission, saying the hike was necessary to rehabilitate, modernize and expand rail service to the public. The United States has resumed aerial reconnaissance over North Vietnam using pilotless drones carrying cameras. Pentagon sources indicated today. Defense Department spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim, pointedly refused any comment when asked about North Vietnam's charges that U.S. reconnaissance planes had violated its air space twice on Thursday. Before this, top Pentagon officials, including Secretary of Defense Elliot L. Richardson, have denied Hanois claims that the U.S. was violating the Vietnam cease-firagreement by sending reconnaissance flights over the North. Pentagon sources indicated that radio- - entment Palestinian guerrillas have decided to move their headquarters from Beirut to Damascus, Syria, and to step up operations in the occupied Golan Heights, which Israel took from Syria in the 1967 war, informed sources Proxmire decries pay-rai- elite se WASHINGTON Sen. William (UPI) said today President Proxmire, Nixons administration permits corporation executives to increase their pay up to 215 per cent in a year, while the government holds Maybe the Easter eggs will show up easier in the At least you wont have to worry about keeping them in the refrigerator, because its going to be chilly through Saturday with a chance of snow showers, accorn-name- d by variable cloudiness Lows tonight in the 20s and highs on Saturday 45 to 50. The cold will continue through Easter Sunday. (Details, weather map on Page snow. .) workers to 5.5 per cent annually. Proxmire said Dr. John Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council, should change the policy, making wage guidelines apply to big business executive pay raises and bonuses as well as to workers. The guidelines must be applied equally to the big shots as well as to the average Proxmire said. American wage earner, What is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. The time has come to end this rank dis, crimination which applies one policy for the mass of Americans ar.d another for the elitist few. Dr. Dunlop should change the policy and change it now. Proxmire said tough wage controls had been applied to millions of Americans while See PROXMf E, Page A-- 8 4 DESFRET X&NEWS Informotion 524-444- News tips 524-440- 0 Sports scores Ombudsman 524-444- 8 Home delivery problems (Coll Monday through Swurday before 8 p.m.) 5 364-862- 6 524-284- 0 I |