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Show 1 TUM- I- "II ffriinrm.rr DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1973 Was pressed to halt IRS, Dean claims Constitutional showdown Nixon offers bombing compromise Continued from Page WASHINGTON (L'PI) Ousted White Houxe Counsel John W. Dean III testified today that persons brought pressure on him to help stop tax audits that were being made on some of President Nixon's fnends. mencing on somebody who was close to the President, and several got people involved in this They said. 'John, you got to do somethin;, about this because the President is ust going to hit the roof when he finds out about Dean, in his fifth and final day of testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, did not identify either the persons making the, request or friends who were Nixon's being audited. He said that at least once he refused to lake action. it. In other testimony Sen. Edward J. Gurney. RFla.. challenged Dean closely about his memory, particularly about a conversation Dean had in June. 1!72 with Herbert W. Kalmbach. then Nixon s personal lawyer Sen. Joseph M Montoya. DN.Y . suggested Nixon knew that Dean had made no White House investigation of Watergate when the President said at an Aug. 29 news conference Dean's investigation showed no one then in the White House or the administration was involved in the that scandal. Earlier this week. Dean testified that Nixon told him on sept. 15 that his administrahad not been able to make use of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits the wav that previous Democratic administrations had. tion Today. Dean testified: was told I was to do something about those audits that were being performed on two friends of the President, that they felt they were being harassed and the like. I Dean said he later saw a memo on which House Chief of Staff II R llaldeman had written, snug "This has already been taken care of." then-Whit- e In a third instance. Dean testified, an audit "was com- - paralyze the government, there was no assurance I Well." Dean continued. went to the Department of Justice because the case had already gone from the IRS to the criminal division. I spoke to Mr. Ehrhchman (John D Ehrhchman. one of Nixon's top two aides) about this, and he said. 'This man is just up to his teeth m this problem. I reported this back to the people and I said. 'Just don't touch this. There's just no way. This man is in trouble and he needs to be told he's in trouble. That's the way I handled these situations." A-- congressional approval. On Wednesday the President vetoed a $3.3 billion supplemental bill appropriations passed by both houses of Congress because it contained language cutting off funds for the Anti-ar House bombing. to members were unable muster the vote needed to override the veto. first sBf-apstiin- ig c3r a On Thursday six separate congressional committees met on the issue, and strong antiwar. provisions stick. try W never have to touch your new color TV except Syfvania to turn ft on or change channels You may - two-third- s Con 9 gress could make such a veto &ie were tacked on to three sepaHouse and Senate conferees Another is the debt ceiling rate bills including two that bill, which must be enacted by Thursday added a must be enacted by the weekmidnight Saturday to preserve provision to it end to keep the federal gov the government's present borThe third is a State Departernment functioning rowing power, and which also ment authorization bill. includes $2.4 billion in. Social One of these is the A presidential veto of the "continuing resolution" which Security benefit increases for resolution allows the executive, judicial .30 million elderlv Americans would continuing and legislative branches of the Embezzlement family affair government to continue meetBeaHOISTON (l Pi) ing its payrolls and expenses Willie Faye Toucheck. after the fiscal year ends at trice D My rick, 49, pleaded 43. pleaded guilty to embezmidnight Saturday night. The guilty Thursday m the U S zling $129,087 and also reSenate Appropriations Com- - District Court to embezzling ceived a r sentence. $36,978 from the Continental mittee added an Both woiked in the bank's r e Bank and received a provision to this usually .jail department from 1968-7measure Thursday prison sentence. 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Frankfurt bankers said that in theory, the American dollar should gam slightly in value m European countries other than Germany as a result of today's action bv Bonn The other Common Market countries are experiencing a boom. too. but not so much as West Germany. Karl Klasen. President of the Central Bank, took part in the decisive cabinet sessuin. and appeared with Schmidt a( the subsequent new s conference How the dollar will react to our move remains open. Klasen said in reply to questions. "But I have the impression the Americans v lew the position of the dollar opumi-'.i-caland that we may be at a turning point." Pressure on the dollar was so great early this year that on Feb. 12. 1973. Treasury Secretary George P Shull announced a 10 per cent devaluation of the dollar. Thai w.i followed on March 12 by a West German decision to revalue the mark upward. to its Dspite the March revaluation. 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