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Show sf3i ET MEW VOL. 380 NO. 100 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 68 PAGES TEN Founded 1S5U when Utah territory u as known as the State of Deseret THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1973 CENTS Prosecutor UAMUNGION (MM Nixon today named Son William B. a' attorney general and appiuved the selecton of Loon Jjworxkt a- - now Watergate '.pecuil progenitor with lull l'uleiiomloiue and safeguard-- . against being tired a Texan; 'the President pumiced not to discharge Jaworski. as he had Archibald Cox. without obtaining the consent of House and Senate Democratic and tin leaders and top members of the two judici ary committees in Congress Nixon appeared personal! in the White House brieurg room to announce his nomination of Saxbe. an Ohie Republican who is not seeking re-- i lection, as successor to Elliot Richardson, ho resigned Oct. 20 rather than toilou Nixons oiders to fire Cox. Today in the News t - Shp In Washington 4 Ine President, without answering questions then turned the podium oxer to acting Alt) Gen Robeit Bork. who announced that Jaworski would become .special prosecutor to pursue "the Watergate matter and related subieets Justice chie- f- ;i U 4 I photog-laphei- foith-comin- g JSfcWK' Sen. Saxbe Mr. Jaworski mandate wlucti had been gixen Cox. In addition Bulk said that Nixon bas gixen "Ills personal assurance that he will not tire Jawotski without tirst consulting with the specified congressional leaders and "ascertaining that their consensus is m accord with Ills proposed action Bork said that Jawoi'ki lias been "promised the o the oxectitixe branch Should Jaworski docnle that In needs presidential documents. Bork su'd. "theie will be no rest! ictions placed on lua treedom Bork said Jaworski. a cntalant ot the late President Lxndon B. Johnson, would have the same broad lull cooperation a senator News executives across (lie countix have protested to s the Mate Department the decision to exclude still trom Secretary of State llenry It is an minngement on the freeMuteast tnp dom of tiie press that such an histone journey will not be recorded bx American photographers tor newspapers and Mm ton D. Stone, picture editor of the New magazines, Yoik Times, said Other newspapers demanded at least a pool photographer or representatives from United Press Intel national and the Associated Press . The government disclosed that an accident occurred 20 at its Oak Ridge. Tenn. atomic facility involving highly secret experimental equipment. One experimental device was virtually destroyed and some others damaged. Disclosure of the accident, in which no one was hurt, was held up for nine days, an AEC spokesman said, because Hie project is "a secret and sensitive one" involving gas If perfected, the process could produce enlnfuge. fissionable uranium for weapons and power plants. Oct The tiling ui Cox alter his retusal tu abide by Nixons orders to drop ettorts in court to obtain Se SAXBE on Pag A-- DDT max be on the rebound for use on crop and forest lands in an attempt to combat the spreading damage being done to trees by tussock and gypsy moths. A House agriculture subcommittee has unanimously voted to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to order the Environmental Iroteetion Agency to h't its March 192 ban 'f the insecticide so damaged areas in Pennsylvania, hit by the gypsy moth, and m Oregon and Idaho, where the tussock has invaded, can be fought with the only presently known weapon. DDT. The crucial Nixon-Dea- n tape taken from safe, agent says - WASHINGTON A (I PD Secret Service agent said today that a crucial Watergate tape covering the period of President Nixons talk with his former counsel John W. Dean III were taken from a safe on July 11 on orders of senior While House officials. The agent conceded that his1 original noles on when tapes were removed and returned did not indicate whether the tapes in question had exer been returned although a log compiled later showed they were brought back the next day. The White House has said that there is no recording of the April '13 Nixon-Deatalks considered crucial to beprosecution Watergate cause Dean said he told the President he was cooperating because the with authorities n equipment tapping malfunctioned. Prosecutors raised the possibility today that the tapes covering the period of April which were removed in July 6 were taken from the White House in July by former presidential adviser H. R. Halde-malistened to and never returned. a Richard lawyer for the W'atergate special prosecution force, elicited of through Secret Service agent Raymond C. Zumwalt that the critical tape was removed from a safe on orders of senior White House officials at a time that Haiucnian is known to hux e listened to at least one of Nixon's tape recorded conver sations bearing on Watergate. Zumwalt conceded that his original raw noles do not indicate that the critical April tape was ever returned although a transcription of those I recognize and welcome the fact that this committee, as it should, will inquire fully into my worthiness to have the trust of the nation, Ford said in a prepared opening statement. Ford defended his consistent support of the administration and said For that I have no apologies. If being for his President and for his party and for its candidates disqualified anyone from becoming vice president. then well never have another Truman. Nixon, Johnson or Humphrey. President Nixon and Israeli Prime Munster Golda Meir about a Middle East began important consultations today peace settlement. As the two leaders met. sudden tension dev eloped along line. the shaky cease-firA military spokesman in Tel Aviv said today Israeli in two llareups. And m troops killed six Egyptian soldiers its Cairo government sources said Egypt had redeployed the to Canal dnve Suez of the bank west troops along the necesIsraelis back behind the Oct. 22 cease fire line, if e sary. There vvei e onlv small clouds on Ford s horizon amid indication he would win congressional approval by the end of this month, but Sen. Howard Wr. Cannon. chairman of the committee, made it clear on the eve of the hearings that his panel will scrutinize the Ford nomination, closely. I have seen things that will certainly raise questions that we will bring out with Mr. Ford. Cannon told newsmen Wednesday after reviewing FBI investigative reports. Included in those things, said Cannon, are allegations that Ford traded political favors m exchange for political contributions, charges made in a book The Washington " N. by former lobbyist Robert Pay-Off- Mrs. Meir, who armed in Washington late Wednesday, from said she was seeking answers and clarifications settlement Nixon about U.S. policy in terms of a long-terof the Middle East crisis Before the meeting, Mrs. Meir had a breakfast session Blair House, with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger at from the the Presidents guest house across the street White House. the Israeli officials have expressed some concern about Arabs. Mrs. to the overtures and S. U of direction policy with Nixon, Meir m addition to requesting the meeting leaders and prominent with meet congressional to arranged American Jewish groups in the United States. Her session with I am not a saint and Im sure I have done things I might have done better or differently or not at all. Ford said. But I believe and hope that I have been honest with myself and with others. Nixon United Press International Nixon followed the Presidents meet- Ismail Fanmi. who ing Wednesday with Egyptian envoy minister Wednesday by Egyptian Presiwas named foreign dent Anwar Sadat while Fahmi was in Washington. Mrs. Meir conferred with Nixon in advance of Kissivisits to some Arab ngers departure Monday for ttuick capitals. Iraq and Syria have refused to receive Kissinger during his Middle East tour because of America's support for Israel during the October war. the Remit newspaper Liwa said today 1 W mter-Eerge- r. Ford has branded the Winter-Berge- r tions "categorically untrue. Zumwalt replied. Earlier, the White House offered to let a federal judge Dis-Se- e A-- 9 Nixon order on allega- - . WASHINGTON (AP) Fpmr Atty. Gen. Richard S. Kleindienst denies he committed perjury by failing to tell the Senate about President Nixons order to drop an antitrust suit against ITT and his own threat to resign rather than obey. Kleindienst stated repeatedly under oath during 1972 hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee that there was no White House pressure on him to halt the antitrust suits against International Telegraph Corp Telephone & lie acknowledged in a statement Wednesday that Nixon telephoned him on April 19, 1971. and, without any discussion, ordered me to drop the appeal of one of (he three parallel lawsuits. He defended his Senate testimony saying he had had any House at the and I did contacts. by I ITT was not asked whether contacts with the White time of this decision, not deny any such But an examination of the two volumes of the hearing record shows that Kleindienst was asked repeatedly about the sequi nee of events on April 19. And he was asked several times if he had ever had anv contacts with the White House concerning the ITT case. He repeatedly denied any contacts amounting to pressure or directions and conceded only that the matter may have been mentioned in some of the many casual conversations he had with While House Kleindienst disclosed for the first tune that the controversy forced him See KLEINDIENST, Page A-- unaware MacGregor - WASHINGTON (UPI) Clark MacGregor said today he had no knowledge of White House involvement in the Watergate break-iwhen he took over as director of President n Nixons campaign in Julv, 1972 MacGregor, who replaced John N Mitchell as campaign director, told the Senate Watergate committee he did not suspect until the month after his appointment that others than those arrested were involved in the break-iat the Democratic headquarters. Even then, he added, he had no firm knowledge. testified was he MacGregor unaware of the almost daily meetings held in July and August between n The Cost of Living Council said letail prices for gasoline and home heating oil can be increased today to match increases in wholesale prices. Phillips Petroleum Co. announced it was raising gasoline and heating oil pnees by three cen's a Gallon, booinu the price of premium House Counsel John W. Dean III, Deputy Campaign Director Jeb Stuart Magruder, and other campaign and White House offi.ials. I was excluded from 'hose meetMacGregor said. The first ings, knowledge of the pattern of those meetings, and their significance came to me from these hearings. Accorduig to previous testimony before the Watergate committee. Dean coached Magruder in those on false testimony meetings Magruder subsequently gave the Wa- tergate grand jury. said he also was MacGregor unaware of the dirty tricks carried out by Donald Segretti until he read about them in the newspapers. administration is seeking presidential discretion to impose gasoline areas of the country to almost 50 cents a gallon m some also g than having automatically Co. Skelly nounced gasoline pnee hikes of one cent a gallon. Oil an- tion's three largest airlines American, Trans World and I mted on the leuokitixe lev tin- measures rather them triggered The distribution of petroleum fuels comes under government regulation today for the first tune since World War II. And, for the air traveler, starting today more than lbl) daily flights are being cut back because of the shortage of aircraft fuel. Of these, 80 flights are being cut by the na- - The first powered flight of the X24B. forerunner of a generation of aerospace cratt. was rescheduled for Friday after a possible engine malfunction canceled the original Wednesday flight. Edwards Air Force Base .spokesmen said today. Intended to pave the way for development of aircraft capable of operating at the edge of space and tly back to earth like conventional airplanes, the N24B has spent the summer in glide tests. . A young arsonist is believed the cause of the worst brush fire of the new through 2,550 acres of a Los Angeles seaside neighborhood and forced evacuation of hundreds of expensive homes. Fire department officials. armed with the deseen scription of a teen-age- r running from where the blaze began, expected an arrest soon. As helicopters dropped fire retardant a Noah, Canyon Topanga toted Louie Moonshine, six (right), peacocks, 20 doves, two guinea fowl and a number of chickens in sacks as he coaxed the rest of his menagerie to safety. The move is expected to ease the problems of expected winter luel shortages, and so far the regulations affect healing oil. diesel fuel, jet fuel and other middle distillates. However thp rut in Arab oil supplies could force extension of the rules to gasoline and crude oil, and both fYnigress and the administration appear ready to set up a standby system tor direct rationing to the consumer. Many drivers can expect to find higher gasoline pnees today, according to Charles L. Bmxtead. president of the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers, who said with approval for increases today he expects many stations to raise pnees by a penny a gallon at mice ' I i Around the world European troop reductions on both sides is what the United States is pushing for, spokesmen said today as delegates from the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) continued talks in Vienna. The lirst phase will focus on superpower troop cuts, followed by proposals lor East and West Europeans. The U.S. said it would like to pull some of its troops out by next year. The USSR wants to wait until 1975. former Soviet dissident leader Pyotr I. Yakir, who was sentenced to three years in prison in September, has been freed and "exiled to a city near Moscow, dissident sources skid today. Yakir, 5(1. who confessed to engaging m subversive activities, has been telephoning friends from Ins new residence. Stock market today then-Whit- e National fuel crisis hits home -WASHINGTON (AP) American highway and air traveler-- - felt the effects of the fuel crisis today, as the Nixon administration continued work on legislative proposals for national fuel sax mg. eseo w as A third indictment against financier Robei t leveled by a federal grand jury in New York in the continuing etfort to have him extradited to the United Slates from his Caribbean hideaway. Yesco was charged with defrauding $50,(1011 from the International Controls Corp. of Fairlield. N.J.. a tirm he once controlled. Vesco's indictment last May. along with former attorney general John Mitchell and former commerce secretary Maurice Stans, on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and by a Costa Rican court. perjury was ruled season that flammed Kleindienst admits - with Nixon "No. listen to tape of the period during which the President talked with Dean to hear for hirnself that a crucial part of the conversation never was recorded. The White House aKo recommended that electronics experts be called in to certify that Nixon's remaining secret tapes are complete and have not been tampered with m any w ay. White House lawyer J. Fred Buzhardl made the offers at a hearing before Chief U. S. AGENT on Page But denies perjury WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep. Gerald R. Ford told the historic congressional hearings into his vice presidential nomination today that he is not a saint and that he welcomes the closest scrutiny of his fitness for the job. Ford. 60, the Republican House Minority witness as Leader from Michigan, was lead-of- f the Senate Rules Committee opened hearings into his nomination to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as the 40th vice president of the United States. Golda talks Do you know whether the tape recording of a conversation between the President of the United States and John W. Dean on April 15, 1973, was gixen to Mr. Haldeman in July of 1973? asked. mid-Jul- Senate panel Golda Meir, President Nixon meet in oval office. 11. notes made July 18 showed it was. April 30 in a major shakeup, testified before the Senate Watergate committee last summer that lie had taken several of the tapes home to review m But he said that he listened to only one. dated Sept. 15, 1972. I'm no saint Ford tells AP Wireohp Zumwalt said he was not told for whom the tapes were destined when he released the , from a locked safe July Across the nation NEW YORK (UPI) Stocks fell sharply today for the third consecutive session on the New York Stock Exchange amid growing concern over Watergate and the increasing possibility of a senous energy shortage. Trading was moderate. A few minutes before the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 8.73 to 947.85. (Complete American. New York lists on Page Winter's punch hits hard tonight Snow continuing tonight, with heavy snow warnings out for the Wasatch Front but decreasing Friday. Low temperatures tonight will be in the 20s and 30s, with the high Friday near 40. (Complete summary, weather map on page & |