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Show i") "xurrjy-- n f"M"f I U niriigiipii ill T"1 DESERET j n " miw rr tT" V . 8A ' NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1973 Senate Watergate probe just one of many - The Senale (AP) probing the Watergate affair, which opens hearings today, is directing only one of a series of investigations that began with the June 17 break-i- at Democratic National Committee headquarters. ilere is a brief rundown of investigations and similar matinto the Watergate break-iWASHINGTON com-nmte- e n ters; FEDERAL GRAND JURY. WASHING-TOit Convened shortly after the break-in- , returned indictments against the seven original Watergate defendants, all of whom were convicted in January. The grand jury renewed its probe after the trial and is expected to return many more indictments. FEDERAL GRAND JURY, NEW YORK-lle- gan an investigation in January of an unreported $201). Dull cash contribution to President Nixon's campaign by financier Robert Yeseo and returned indictments last week agai ist Vesco. former Attv. Gen. John N. Mitchell, former Commerce Secretary Maurice II. Stans and Harry L. Sears, New Jersey chairman of the Nixon campaign. FEDERAL GRAND JURY, 1IOUSTON-P.eg- an an investigation last week of $S9.IIII() in contributions to ..ie Nixon campaign that were traced 'o one of the men captured inside the Watergate. The money was part of a $100. (WH contribution by Robert H. Allen, president of Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp. and chairman of the Texas Finance Committee to Reelect the President. GRAND JURY. ORLANDO, FEDERAL FLA. Indicted Nixon campaign operative Donald Segretti and accountant George Hearing in connection with a bogus letter on Sen. Edmund S. Muskies stationery, accusing Sens. Hubert 11. Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson of sexual misbehavior. Hearing has pleaded guilty; Segretti was to appear in court today. GRAND COUNTY ANGELES Expected to convene next month to investigate the burglary attempt at the office of the psychiatrist of former Pentagon papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg. The matter became enmeshed in the Watergate affair when it was disclosed that principals in the Watergate case also were involved in the reported burglary. LOS JURY AGENCY-Bei- ng CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE Armed Senate Services the by probed Committee and subcommittees of the Senate and House Armed Services committees in connection with the Ellsberg burglary and the White House Watergate It has been disclosed that presidential aides tried to order CIA interference with a Watergate-relateFEI investigation. Also disclosed was that the CIA had provided disguises and other materia! to former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators and one of those implicated in the Ellsberg burglary. JUSTICE DEPART.M Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst promised that the department's Watergate investigation would be the most thorough since that concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Kleindienst since has resigned because close associates have been implicated in the scandal. Atty. Gen. designate Elliot L. Richardson plans to name a special prosecutor to run the investigation. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Five apparent violations by the Nixon committee of the 1272 campaign-spendinlaw have been taken to the Justice Department by the GAO. the' congressional watchdog agency. The committee pleaded no contest and was fined $8,000 in one case. It pleaded innocent in another cas involving the Vesco donation. The Appropriations eov-eru- d ENT-Outg- oing g a-- 1 More than 200 would-b- of the Old Senate Office Building hours before the hearings began, waiting in the tool and sunny morning for the doors to open. Under the glare of hot lights specially installed for live television coverage. Enin warned that if the charges stemming from the Watergate are true charges of widespread political espionage and sabotage it will threaten the achs." He e spectators crowded the marble steps lunge on the outcome of several ongoing probes. "What will Watergate do and what will these hearings do to the office and Hie institution of the presidency?" Gurney asked. "That is the quesin tion that is uppermost and minds people's gnawing away in the pits of their stomsaid comment" the "absence of world leaders on the case reflected the longof time credo diplomatic "don't rock the boat lest we all capsize." by Odle stressed in an opening statement that while two former workers for the commitG. Gordon Liddy and tee James W. McCord already were facing prison terms for the June 17. 1972. Watergate burglary, hundreds of other workers did nothing wrong in the campaign. If others are guilty. " Odle said. "1 hope tiiat they will be and exposed prosecuted. These hearings will help in that purpose. The point I would like to make is this: When we discuss the Committee for the Reelection of the President, we should remember there were over a million volunteers across the nation and 400 people at the national headquarters who did nothing unethical or illegal. They joined in the campaign because they believed in a President this President who opened a door to. China all too long closed, a President who traveled to Russia and signed substantive agreements while there, a President who brought an end to the longest war in our history. who Odle, lost an Ag- riculture Department job recently as an indirect result of Watergate, declared; "1 and am today was proud to have been associated with them in the cause of reelecting a man who 1 feel w ill ultimately be regarded as one of the greatest Presidents this nation has ever known." The objective of the committee in calling Odle first was to get an explanation of the opercomation of the mittee, since it was officials associated with that group most who allegedly knew abouuut the political espionage plans that led to the Waterthe break-iand burgate n glary June 17. 1972 of Democratic national headquarters. textured ACRYLIC POLY OPTICS CofTp'e'e McCord is listed as the first major witness at the Senate probably testifying hearings Friday morning. The witness list so far released includes names, such many General John as N. Mitchell and deposed White House aides ILR. Ilaldeman, John D. L.iriichman and John W. Dean and the committee vice chairman. Sen. Howard said many Baker, others will be called before the hearings run their course. well-know- n Baker said when the Watergate committee was formed without kits for doyojref opco' 1 Deinocu-tRepublica- All YOUR OWN n split (it includes four Democrats and three Republicans). Jie was somewhat concerned. "But any doubts that I might have had about the fairness and impartiuliiy of this investigation have- been swept away during the last few weeks, the drawling Tennessean said. "... This is not eravcqc'izos1 r'c7 ACRYLIC SHEETS a . . . or.d t bers .n '0-the po'S cvO'iab'e sepa'cnely Oot-cc' .n 9 erd coors A! and cylinder for lapi l:ust'0eO tnVjctiO'' books ohe od C'Oessic'tai to aTptho tn.ngs you ned cpeoe cfeco'af,ve occessctes pre-Apr- il with convicted McCord, Liddy in January of playing a key role in the burglary, triggered a feverish, renewed investigation of Watergate in March by telling the judge at sentencing time that some witnesses had lied at the trial to protect others. $239s 56"x46"xW tion by former presidential Counsel John W. Dean III cleared all staff members of involvement. The White House now says there were inadequacies in a report relayed orally to Nixon. Dean has denied conducting such an investigation. CIVit SUITS By Common Cause, to force 7. !972. campaign condisclosure of tributions, and by the Democratic National Committee have resulted in sworn depositions which have shed light on the Watergate case. KENNEDY Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's on subcommittee administrative practice began a Watergate investigation last fall but recommended it be taken over by a committee with greater resources. Kennedy's committee has been processing the material it gathered and turning it over to the select committee. PATMAN The House Banking and Currency Committee.'' under Chairman Wright Patman. began an investigation of matters relating to Watergate in August but halted its probe after members refused to vote the committee subpoena powers m October. Committee determined to spore no one Continued From Page States. And if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or the property of American citizens, but something much more valuable their most precious heritage, the right to vole in a free election." CHAIR PADS remaining three still are pending at the Justice Department. HOUSE President Nixon anWHITE nounced last August that an internal investiga- Ciear as aass . . resisted vvirdovs . use for breakage in horr.es, bcjfs, Make it veil self, it's easy etc. caTpers, shop, Free ;nfructions 30 Sq. Ft. Kit Only AS LOW AS SOc 1 PER Pumps Are Extra SQUARE re? FOOT 595 WE in any way a CUT but. undertaking, partisan rather it is a bipartisan seareli for the unvarnished truth ... We will inquire into every act and follow every lead, unrestrained by any fear of where that lead take us." The Senate hearings vv ill be concentrating at first on Watergate, bin the committee's mandate covers the whole field of political espionage. TO SIZE PLASTICS. INC. 2945 S. 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