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Show " .. S o7 v'W' Vol. 207, No. 7 Farewell, Watergate r Demos on Move To New Offices WASHINGTON (AP) - The Demo- cratic Party moved out of its longtime headquarters at the luxurious Watergate complex Friday, locking the door as it left to memories of debt, defeat and tapped telephones Deputy Chairman Mary Lou Burg cheerfully turned the key for the last time as she and other national party staffers headed for new offices within walking distance of the White House. Top party leaders had grown increasingly dissatisfied with the posh, river-sid- e facility as a place for the Party of the People to live s even if saboteurs thought it a great place to v isit. Mrs. Burg said she was closing the door on a past of many dissappoint-ment- s for the party, a period in which two presidential candidates were beaten by Richard M. Nixon and a huge deficit was amassed that only recently has begun to drop. after-hour- six-ye- .Ji, 413 Salt Lake City, Utah Saturday Morning 1973 April 21, Price Ten Cents 'Demies Wiretera .Mitel: WASHINGTON (AP) Former Atty Gen. John N. Mitchell told a federal grand jury Friday that he approved payments from Nixon campaign funds tof the sev en Water-gate conspirators after their arrests Democratic the I headquarters,, Post Washington said m a story quoting a Mitchell associate. Mr. Mitchell Mitchell testi- fied for three hours Friday. Afterwards he told newsmen: I never approved any bugging plans. He also said he never handled any payoff money to buy silence from defendants. The Post said Mitchell, former head of the Presidents campaign, maintained under oath that money it said was given to the Watergate defendants was intended to pay their legal fees not to buy their silence. No figure was given. 1 , In talking with newsmen after the grand jury appearance, Mitchell said he had heard of plans to conduct wiretapping in the 1972 presidential campaign and gave them absolute, final disapproval Mitchell wouldn't tell newsmen the names of those who proposed the bugging plans he had disapproved. But his lawyer confirmed as "substantially accurate a news account saying Mitchell privately accused Jeb S. Magruder and G. Gordon Liddy. two former associates in the Nixon campaign. the highest officials " oi approved bv the campaign, including Maurice Stans. Hugh W. Sloan Jr , and Magruder Mitchell testified for about three "1 testified hours fully freely and ' openly. he said afterward Help Plan Operation? Magruder has been quoted as telling federal prosecutors that Mitchell and presidential counsel John W. Dean III approved and helped plan bugging operations and arranged for payoffs to defendants. tilings. They've always been cut off at all times, and I'd like to know who kept bringing them back up After speaking with newsmen for about 10 minutes outside the courthouse door. Mitchell was driven away in his personal automobile. No Criminal Violation James the convicted defendants, McCord Jr., sued the Nixon Thursday for $1.5 million in claiming he was led to beactions were legal and were of One W. campaign damages, lieve his "We led that all ol the fads, when evaluated in the light of existing law will soon convince everyone there was no criminal violation. Hundley said t the time ot the wiretapping Mitchell was chairman of the Presi dent's campaign . ed. Regarding wiretapping, he reiteratIve heard discussions of such Last fall Mitchell gave a sworn statement in a civil Watergate lawsuit denying that he had heard any discussions about spying on Democratic headquarters More on Watergate Page A-1- Arorova 2 was asked, "Was there any discussion at which you were present or about which you heard when you were having campiagn director concerning any form of surveillance on the Democratic National Cominitlcc headqua11c rters" Absolute, Final Disapproval He replied, "No. I can't imagine a less productive activity than that " On Friday Mitchell was asked. "Could vou slate exactly what vour Mitchell's lawyer, William G. Hundley. predicted the former chief L'.S law officers would be enforcement absolved. conned ion was with the hugging discussions There was absolute, litial disap- proval Q Hut you heard discussion ol l lie plans' I've things Q . In hoard discussion such ol . February, was that sir'' They've such times always been cul oil at In bis lawsuit. McCord, the Watergate burglar who had been employed by Mitchell as chief ol campaign security, asked lor $1.5 million for "damage to severe mental, physical, reputation, emotional strain and intense mental anguish " McCord alleged in a court tiling that he hud been led to believe that what lie was doing was "sum tinned by the high camest olficials" m the Iresident's paign Worst Since Korean War Food Price Increases Consumer Index By Edwin L. Dale Jr. New York Times Writer Led by another big WASHINGTON jump in food prices, consumer prices rose last month by the largest amount for a month since the Korean war inflation of 1951, the Labor Department reported Friday. The increase in the consumer price of perindex in March was after adjustment cent, or eight-tenth- s for normal seasonal changes in some prices. Even more striking, this index rose in the first three months of the year at an annual rate of 8.8 percent, more than double the rate of inflation last year and again the worst since the Korean War. Food was the chief culprit, accounts of the rise in the total ing for index in March. The increase last month, with red meat and poultry in the forefront, was 2.6 percent and for the first quarter as a whole, food prices rose at the extraordinary annual rate of ninc-tcnlh- s 1 Stein probably some months away. The worst of the price news is said, probably behind us." of George Meany, president American Federation ol Labor and the Con- gress of Industrial Organizations, took an exactly opposite position. He said the consumer price figures give "proof positive, if any further proof was necessary, of the complete failure of the economic policies of the Nixon administration. Popes Trek Re-enac- ts two-third- 29.8 percent. Administration Calm At least on the surface, the attitude in the administration continued to be one of calm. Herbert Stein, chairman of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers, took comfort in a relatively small increase last month in both goods and services prices and said the report contains the first encouraging signs on prices we have seen in the past two months. Stein also said, there is preliminary non-foo- Graduating students, fill much cf Marriott families and friends Activity 7 U.S. Jews Say Soviet Police Roughed Them Seven American MOSCOW (LPI) Jewish college students said Friday they were punched and kicked by Soviet police and passersby during a demonstration at the Soviet visa office to protest restrictions on Russian Jewish emi- grants. The seven, including two teen-ag- e girls and all tourists from the New York City area, were freed after about eight hours in custody following the midafternoon protest. They said authorities who questioned them told them they had been sentenced strict regime term to an unspecified in a labor camp but were being released first-tim- e on their own recognizance as offenders. They identified themselves as Yosst Klein. Philip Pulver. Jules Leventhal. . all 19. Philip Kornbluth. 2". Alan Bindi-ger18. and the two girls. Robin Sehwart. 17. and Rivky Friedman. 19 Inside The Tribune Yaria-Salt Lake ( tty and vicinity cloudy with some shower activity, mtinued cold Weather map on Page Center for Brigham Young Universitys 98th annual commencement. Addressing the graduates is Dr. Neal A. Maxwell, education commissioner for Saints. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day LDS Educator Advises BYU Graduates To Apply Knowledge to Lifes Truths By John Cummins Tribune Education Writer PROVO Brigham Young Univer sity's graduating students were counseled Friday to seek out key truths and facts . . . worth of fealty apply them to life. Speaking at BYU's 98th annual commencement exercises. Dr. Neal A. Maxwell, commissioner of education for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, told the graduates, True scholarship includes a capacity not only to distinguish between fact and fancy, bu! to know which facts are worth of feali,. Dr. Maxwell told the 3,638 graduates that the Gospel of Jesus points out an aristocracy among truths, some of which are everlasting and more significant than others Notes Truths "A knowledge of such central realiy ties as the existence of God and His presiding and purposeful role in the universe, the great rescue mission of His Son Jesus Christ, and of man's with our Heavenly Father is sovereign sense, whereas the other gradations of truth reflect knowledge of those things which are important but the commispassing and proximate, sioner said, adding later. Knowing the truth about those things that really matter frees os from finite perspective. in Marriott Center The exercises were preceded by a traditional academic memprocession of graduates, faculty the uniacross leaders church bers and AdministraSmoot from campus versity tion Building to the center The march was made despite threatclouds and ening weather with lowering . snow squalls that swept across the June traditonal transforming the cam-ous- atmosphere of graduation time into one more befitting January. Early Exercises BYUs commencement was held about a month earlier this year to conform to the university's new trimester academic calendar. Under this calendar, the second academic semester ends in rather than late May. mid-Apr- Todays Chuckle It makes you realize the enormous difficulties of building a better world when you finally get down to cleaning out the garage each year. d evidence that prices received by farmers have declined in the past month and that retail food prices have been rising less rapidly than in the first three months of the year. He and Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz both said that the rise in food prices had not come to a stop, but they held out hope for a much smaller rate of increase from now on. Like Stein, Shultz noted the part of the index and called it in some ways a rather encouraging report. Separately from his comment here. Stein said in a speech in New York that calls for a new price freeze were "simply a longing for the naivete and irresponsibility of childhood." While not ruling out some tightening of Phase 3 controls, Stem said we have no need to return to a freeze. non-foo- d During the program, Dr. Dallin H. Oaks. BYU president, conferred an honorary doctor of business degree to William W. Keeler, .principal chief of the Cherokee Indian Nation and chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Phillips Petroleum Co. Dr. Robert K. Thomas. BYU academic v:ce president, noted the degree was m recognition of Mr. Keelers life of service to his people and for his efforts to improve their welfare, education and arts. Special awards included the Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Award presented to See Page A8. Column 1 Price Surge Citing numerous explanations for the recent bulge in prices, Stein said, all in all, we believe that very little of the recent price surge was due to the shift to Phase 3. While conceding that the really good news on prices was Jesus Death By Associated Press Pope Paul VI trekked through Rome's ancient pagan ruins on Good Friday night in a Wav of the Cross procession Christs agony and death. He called on Christians to renounce abortion, crime, the arms race and other outrages committed against the life and dignity of man. Before thousands of pilgrims and prelates, and a television audience of millions, the pontiff lifted a wooden cross near the Colosseum, where some believe Christians once were martyred. He had watched and prayed as the procession moved from station to station the traditional route. Then he picked up the cross and carried it through the last five stations. on At the end he delivered his bnel but strongly worded address denouncing the sins of modern man. Earlier in an austere ceremony commemorating tne death of Christ, the Pope -- - barefoot and bowed knelt in St. Peters Basilica and kissed a crucifix. The pontiff said Jesus died "to bring humanity to men. to bring goodness and justice to the world, and thus to bring peace. In Jerusalem, where Christ was crucified centuries ago. pilgrims and tourists crowded into the Old Citv to begin the Easter weekend by retracing Ins steps on the way to Calvary. Soldiers tightened security because of fears that Palestinian guerrillas might in an try to spoil the observances attempt to attract attention to their plight. it opv right) The Judge of Jesus Pilates P Own note: This is the fifth ond last installment ot o five-paEaster series about Pontius Pilate, the iudge of Jesus. It is based on Bibical and historical accounts ond ancient traditions, supplemented bv mood ond conversational details appropriate to the recorded circum- stances. By George W. Cornell AP Religion Writer The wharf at Caesara teemed with having porters and stevedores loading the square-mastemerchant ship with cargo. It was late afternoon before Pontius Pilate went aboard. tie had been recalled to Rome for excessive brutality as governor of the t, d province of Juda. A lean, rigidly erect man of mili W ily Devices Bring His Defeat tary bearing, he strode hastily up the gangway, looking to neither side, followed by his wife, Procula, and a retinue of slaves and baggage. No honor parade, no martial drums, no dipping banners of legionnaires marked his departure. Not even his successor, Marcellus. was on hand to bid him farewell. He was under a summons from the Emperor Tiberius to answer a charge of unwarranted bloodshed. Behind him he left a haunting record, including the crucifixion of Jesus As the ship sailed that day, the stern which he and his wife had signed. unable anv longer her estranged silence He emerged from Pilate cabin to been asto abide wove his along the wine kegs and heaped grain sacks to an aft railing and watched the shadows purpling the hills of Judea. way "An unnatural place." he murmured Bewitched" vehement It was an untamed, land, each volcanic height, each whispering wind, each narrow, twisting street echoing with time, passions and mystery "The grandam of the Furies' He shivered, not so much from the whiffs of damp sea air as from memories, the misty, swarming images of defiant faces, the fallen, mangled bodies, the upthrust silhouttes of laden crosses. Those brash, spouting followers of the hung Galilean still ran amuck, he lives out his and had "poured Spirit fur all. It had even affected Procula, ever since the erne aftercenturnoon when the pigeon-headeion jabbered out his hysterical report: Trulv this was a Son of God' spreading their talc that anew twinge went through Pilate he heard the shouted commands of the ship's pilot as the big square mainsail of sown hides, decoand rated with the Roman cubs, was hoisted to the full Latching wind and driving the vessel's high prow faster toward the sinking sun A Dimly, she-vvoi- f Pilate's ramrod frame swajed with the forward pitch and his slenthe der hands gripped railing Christus" fevers that had beaten See V2. Column I |