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Show ERET VOL 379 -- NO. 152 80 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Founded 1850 when Utah territory fcggj was known as the State of Deseret TEN CENTS THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1973 METRO Under White House counterattack WASHINGTON' Senate Watergate (AP) Chairman Sam J. Enin Jr. challenged today whether President Nixon did anything to perform his duty to see that the laws are faithfulin respect to the Watergate ly executed affair." Tl:e North Carolina Democrat attacked certain White House statements after winning acknowledgement from John W. Dean III that some presidential decisions and White House actions not related to Watergate violated the First and Fourth Amendments to the WASHINGTON (AP) Exiled presidential counsel John W. Dean III insisted today, in response to a series of questions from the White House, that his memory is sharp and his accusations against President Nixon are truthful The White House questions were submitted by special counsel J, Fred presidential Buzhardt and read by sen, Daniel K. Inouye. DHawaii. Inouye said Buzhardt told him Innuendo , Today in the News insists accusations true today that Nixon had been briefed about the questions. Dean's grilling is part of a White House former counterattack against the counsel, who in his fourth straight day stuck to his story that Nixon and his top aides plotted together to cover up the wiretapping affair. he would have a budget. He said that while he was on House staff he was a restraining wild and crazy halting many which others wanted to carry out. hut which he filed away and ignored. He said he had once given a casual assurance to campaign deputy Jeb Stuart Magruder that he would receive executive clemency if Magruder went to jail for his perjured testimony. He conceded he did this on his own. and w ith no authority from anyone higher. But he said it was done in response to a worried inquiry from Magruder about whether he and his family would be cared for if his w ere discovered. part in the cover-u- On Wednesday Buzhardt. in a letter to the Senate Watergate committee, called Dean the mastermind of the cover-uand described former Attv. Gen. John N. Mitche'l as his patron. Dean said that although his memory isn't a tape recorder, he has firm recollection of the impressions he had during meetings with Nixon in September. February, March and April. He denied that he had deliberately leaked stories to news media as part of a strategy to escape proseciuion lie said he can't recall ever telling G. Gordon Liddv. who first proposed wiretapping as part of the Nixon campaign, that. p Dean said he took no notes of most of his some of the meetings with Nixon because things that were being said in these meetings were very incriminating to the Presi. . . ing public. Pressed for Ills recollection of a key meeting with Nixon on Sept. 13. 172. Lan said he could not repeat the exact words used by Nixon, but said his mind "certainly perceives the message being given." Did you take any notes of the Sent 1,3 meeting?" asked Inouye. "No, for very specific reason;" Dean said. "Some of the things that were being said in these meetings didn't wlmt to make records of." 1 "Why? "They were very incriminating to the President of the United States." Dean said they included discussions of such matters as clemency for E. Howard Hunt and payoffs for convicted Watergate defendants, all mentioned earlier during his previous three dent." dys of testimony. not want documents recording such meetings because the White House had a problem w ith information becom In response to White House questions about how Dean was abge to remember what had He said he did See DEAN on Page 2 fad-wh- at Around the world Once the showpiece of democracy in Latin America. Uruguay is back in the grip of dictatorial rule shared by Juan M. Borduberry and his military overseers. Six months of bitter quarreling ended this week when Congress w as dissolved and a Council of State assumed power, but Borduberry promised today that nationwide elections will be held when his term expires at the end of 1976. The South Vietnamese should hold elections on Christmas Day and make it "a day of joy. The the Saigon delegation at the Baris peace talks suggested today, but the Communist Viet Cong rejected the proposal as a phony. in related Indochinese developments: Vietnams cease fire entered its sixth month today with the Saigon Command reporting 13 civilians killed in five separate incidents and more heavy fighting near Kontum in the Central Highlands. U.S. F4 Phantom and A7 Corsair jet s joined Cambodian warplanes today in blasting rebel troop positions around Phnom Penh's defense perimeter. fighter-bomber- An explosion today in a parked car outside the science buildings of the University of Paris killed an Algerian who police identified as a member of the Palestinian terrorist Black September group. He was Mohamed Boudia. 41. sought by Italian police in connection with a series of attacks, including blowing up the oil pipeline in Trieste. The Chilean army said today it had smashed a plot by members of the armed forces to overthrow President Salvador Allende. A spokesman said the plot had been totalwith the arrest of several ly aborted military men. g is truth? In By Walter R. Mean The Teamsters Union and trucking industry reached tentative agreement today on a new. contract providing wage increases of less than seven percent for 400.000 drivers nationw ide. WASHINGTON (AP) Time and again, the Senate's Watergate investigators return to the question no single witness can answer: Who is telling the truth? President Nixon denies involvement in the Watergate that cloaked its origins affair, or knowledge of the cover-uthroughout the 1972 campaign and well into 1973. drastic action aimed soaring livestock feed nrices. the Nixon administration has ordered an immediate embargo on futher In at p John W. Dean III testifies that Nixon knew of the cover, of the efforts to prevent the scandal from reaching the White House or his campaign organization. The White House counter-attackcharging that Dean was the principal actor in the cover-up- . and the author of the constitutional and political crisis spawned bv the scand- exports of high protein soybeans and other oilseed products. Agriculture Secy. Earl L. Butz (right) said today. In Japan, soybean prices went up sharply as the jolt of trie embargo was felt. And the Cost of Living Council told chicken producers they cannot raise their prices while the freeze is in effect. (Related story on Page al. Dean denies that, says that as a White House subordinate there was no way he could have done all that. And the truth of the matter is not yet evident. man's fact is innuendo to another. One Dean, the fired White House counsel, claims knowledge that Nixon was aware last September of the cover-up- . Sen. Edward J. Gurnev, terms Deans first-han- d See INNUENDO, Page 2 -(UPI) War critics, now in firm command of both houses of Congress, grimly pressed ahead today with legislation to stop the bombing of Cambodia Nixon's President despite veto of such a measure. Antiwar forces in both the Senate and House vowed to attach a new measure as a rider to vital appropriations bills that must be passed if the federal government is to continue operating. The crunch is expected to come on a resolution to appropriations House-passe- d as a White House counterattack to Dean's testimony by Nixon council keep federal agencies operating after the new fiscal year begins this Sunday. The House resolution contains an amendment identical to the one written into the $3.3 billion appropriations supplemental Nixon vetoed Tuesday cutting off funds for U.S. military action in, over or from the shores of Cambodia or Lacs. Senate approval is expected before the end of the week. bill In vetoing trie supplemental bill, Nixon said the total bomb- ing halt would seriously undermine the chances for a lasting peace in Indochina and our efforts to jeopardize world. The House, minutes after Nixons message was read, sustained the veto. It voted 241 to 173 in favor of a motion to override, 49 votes short of the Iwo-third- necessary Chairman majority. s George Mahon, of the House Appropriations Committee said he would seek approval of a new supplemental bill without the antiwar rider, but doves said they would seek to attach the Cambodia amendment to the measure once again when it comes to the floor. Nixon said if the supplemental bill is not enacted the pay H-bo- The joint statement said that all 19 particiThe Western military VIENNA (UPI) nations 11 full members and eight Warsaw Pact Communist pating the liance and observers would have the right to speak and force mutual toward work to today pledged reductions in Central Europe without hurting circulate papers on any relevant topic at the formal talks. . the security of either side. Taking pari in the talks will be Belgium, In a 'communique formally announcing that Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, East Germathe talks will be held in Vienna beginning Oct. ny, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the 39, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Soviet Union, the United States and West GerWarsaw Pact na(NATO) and the Soviet-lemany. tions ended five months of prepatory talks. Greece. Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria, will But Dutch Ambassador Crvan Quarles van Italy, Norway, Romania and Turkey as attend observers. the five said NATO Ufford. a spokesman, months of talks had failed to produce an agenPact troop da for the formal reduction talks opening in Vienna Oct. 30. al- d We did not find it pie -- ible with the time at ,..;r div;.o.al to agree on no agenda." he said. -- I . would j -- y.o'iations c t;,.. ',iu d.M'U.i !; pi la r..i e tin topic View ant to inn' an- The two sides were upstaged in the issued nuuncemcnt by the joint communique Soviet party leader by President Nixon and disLeonid I. Brezhnev on Monday, which the of meeting. and closed the date place The Vienna communiqut said troop reducin tions will have to be carefully worked out not to diminish the seas so and timing scope curity of either East or West. It also omitted the word balanced at the insistence of the Warsaw Pact because it with a edge implied that the Communist- sin forces NATO Europe would have to over make bigger cuts than the West. 1 had originally demanded the force reductions be both mutual and NATO Y d bal- - roll for Social Security Administration workers would be w ithheld, and 25 million Americans might be deprived of their benefits. There is some question whether the measure automatically dies Saturday when the current budget year ends, or whether it can be passed in the new fiscal year. The impasse on the concould be tinuing resolution far more serious, however, if Congress and the President fail to come to terms. A veto of that resolution would mean that appropriations would be cut off beginning Sunday to the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. create a stable, enduring structure of peace around the NATO, Red bloc pledge efforts to reduce forces NATO-Warsa- CCL .) Veto stiffens antiwar forces WASHINGTON Washington AMA urges - A NEW YORK (UPI) White House staff physician President who accompanied Nixon to China predicted Wednesday that acupuncture just could be the most significant medical rediscovery of modern times and Chinese herbal medicine may prove as important. Speaking at the final scientific session of the American Medical Associations (AMA) 122nd annual convention, . Dr. William Lukash urged some 1.000 doctors and other medical personnel to see that there is more clinical research in the United States to establish acupunctures true worth before it is put into practice. mb tested China announced TOKYO (UPI) today that it exploded a hydrogen bomb Wednesday and declared that it wanted to break "the nuclear monoBut Peking poly by.the superpowers. said it would never be the first to use nuclear weapons in war. In a brief announcement carried by the official New China News Agency, China said the nuclear test was only a defense move and had the ultimate aim of abolishing nuclear weapons. The announcement bomb was Detonated indicated in the the J- - The Senate confirmed President Nixon's nomination of James R. Schlesinger as secretary of Dtfense today. The action came after Sen. William Proxmire, dropped Fred Buzhardt. Senate passes SS benefit increase 86-- 7 - A 5.6 per cent WASHINGTON (UPI) raise in social security benefits for about 30 million elderly hard-h- it by the rising costs of inflation today was virtually assured of con- gressional passage. The Senate Wednesday approved the increase, to take effect Jan. 86-- 7 1, 1974, by a margin. The Social Security benefit increase was included as part of legislation which would extend the $465 billion national debt ceiling through next November. The bill must reach President Nixon by July 1. across-the-boar- d one-side- d Senate-Hous- e negotiators must work out a compromise bill. The House version did not include the social security hike nor a number of other riders approved by the Senate. Among them: A raise, from $2,100 to $3,000 in the amount a person on Social Security can earn without losing benefits. It would affect about 7.4 million persons and cost the Social Security Trust Fund about $800 million annually. provision, approved by voice vote, setting a spending ceiling of $268.7 billion for fiscal 1974 and directing Nixon to get congressional approval before impounding appropriated funds. A An amendment, raising approved federal welfare payments for the aged, blind, and disabled, effective Jan. 1, 1974, requiring states to supplement federal welfare payments so no recipients get present allotments cut; and assuring that no one, now eligible, lose medicaid benefits. 84-1- a cupundure research Lukash said his skepticism turned to frank amazement when he witnessed major surgery, apparently done successfully, on alert and smiling patients who had only needling to deaden the pain. But another speaker, Dr. James Y. P. Chen, a member of the acupuncture committee of the National Institute of Health, warned that the United States should go slow in adopting the medical art practiced in China foe 7,000 years. There is much to be learned from Chinese medical practices before their achievements, particularly in acupuncture anesthesia, are made reproducible in Western countries. " said Chen, of Santa Monica. Calif. "Cen in China efforts are being made to place acupuncture on a more scientific ground. David M. Link of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned the physicians of great potential for abuse if continues acupuncture uncontrolled. The administration ordered last March that all acupuncture equipment be labeled to the effect that it can be used only by licensed medical practitioners. Our conclusion was that acupuncture still is in the experimental stage with no demonstrated safe and proper Link said, noting that use, v states already have banned the practice, while others have limited it to physicians and surgeons. Moderator of the symposium was Dr. Walter Judd, former and Minnesota congressman onetime medical missionary to China, who said the time was approaching when more state and federal regulation would be necessary to keep acupuncture out of the hands of Mime who might discredit a valid medical aid. Im glad the AMA has this meeting to look sponsored at the phenomena of acu-- . puncture coldly and scientifically, Judd said. t his objections to the nomination. Across the nation With a new fiscal year beginning Sunday, President Nixon called budget chief Roy L. Ash to the Western White House at San Clemente today to talk about keeping a lid on federal spending. Deputy Press Secy. Gerald L. Warren said Nixon wants to emphasize a need' to hold outlays during the next 12 months to $268.7 billion. Returning from five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp only to be charged with aiding the enemy, Marine Sgt. Abel Larry Xavan-aug24, of Commerce City, Colo., is an apparent suicide victim. (At right, as he appeared in March at Clark AFB in the Philippines.) He was found dead Wednesday in his home, a bullet through his left temple. Relatives said he had been despondent for several days and only an hour before he died he told a doctor he feared the military would find some excuse to keep him in the service. Stock market today NEW YORK (UPI) A thrid straight day of blue chip and glamor buying by funds and other iarge block traders took the list higher in light trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. Just before the closing bell, the Dow Jonws Industrial Average had climbed 8.06 to 892.69. Standard & Poors 500 stock index had risen 0.73 to 104.35. Advances held an edge on declines, among 1,712 issies traded. Volume came to about 12,800,000 shares, compared to 12,600,000 shares traded on Wednesday. Clouds might cool things off f t i Partly cloudy and not quite so hot through Friday, w a slight chance of afternoon or evening showers. Highs the mid 90s and lows tonight in the-mi- d 60s. 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