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Show On Watergate HD FOB0 JtSoi o J2.il. Ji. By Harry F Rosenthal Associated Press W nter - WASHINGTON John N Mitchell clung Wednesday to his testimony that he turned down the Watergate burglary even when he was wiretapping plan confronted with a diffenng statement made by his former assistant. The questioning of Mitchell, in his second day as a witness before the Senate Watergate committee, became so acid that the former attorney general said at the days end: Its a great trial they're conducting up here, isn't it?" Rescuers attempt to sae passengers aboard the wreck of a Brazilian Yarig Airlines jet I ' which crashed during an emergency landing Wednesday at Paris Orly Airport. On its I way from Rio de Janeiro, the plane carried 131 persons of whom 122 were killed. Brazilian Jet Crashes in Flames Near Paris, Death Count 122 Nan Robertson New A ork Times W nter According to witnesses near the scene, it skidded about 500 yards across rows of onions, lettuce and beets, spun around and finally came to rest about 200 yards from the nearest dwellings m a heavily populated area of this Pans By LES - CHARTREL'X.-FRANCBrazilian jetliner crashed in flames just short of Orly Airport Wednesday, killing 122 of the 134 persons aboard. It was the second worst air disaster in French history SAL' LX - E A suburb The ang Airlines Boeing 707, en route from Rio de Janeiro, belly landed in an onion patch, narrowly missing the its engines lllage of Saulvles-Churtreuand wingtips ripping off on impact The fuselage looked like a broken lobster. smoking hours after the crash as Bremen pned out bodies twisted and charred beyond recognition. They were carried to stretchers where they were cm ered w ith sheets. 1962 Crash kills All Aboard an ir France Boeing 707 crashed on takeoff at Orly, killing all members of a cultuial tounng group from Atlanta as well as nine other passengers and crew members In June, 1962. Wednesday's disaster followed by a month the explosion ot the Soviet Union's supersonic Tupolev aircraft during a demonstration flight at the International ir Show at Le Bourget Airport. It took the lives of all six crew members and sev en persons on the ground at Goussain-ville- , a small town tom apart by the wreckage of the violently disintegrating plane All the passengers perished crew members sun iv ed Twelve Reports Maltunctioning The captain of the Vang airliner flight &20 reported maltunctioning of the engines and radioed the Orly control tower for emergency landing clearance fire on Shortly thereafter he messaged asked for permission to crash-lanboard. and a runway was cleared But the plane went down belly first in a field at 3 15 p m. Pans time, about 15 minutes after the trouble was first announced d Dow .Jones I 7 Stocks Zoom In Dollar Crisis Thaw - market Stock YORK (AP) pnees soared dramatically higher Wednesday amid signs that the dollar ensis in world money markets was easing. The Dow Jones Industnal Average climbed 19 87 to 908 19, following a nse over the past more than two days. NEW Advances led declines on the New York Stock Exchange by five to one in fairly bnsk trading. The rally that began earlier this week was definitely sparked by the strengthening of the dollar. said Mar-- ; tin I. Goodfnend, analyst with Bruns, Nordemann & Co. Other analysts observed that the market was npe for a rebound since it had been down sharply in recent weeks. the American Stock Exchange, the price change index closed up .22 to On 22 58. . Full details, page B 5 Graciette Dosreis was out for a stroll Wednesday when a flaming plane fell from the sky almost in front of her. What would you have done? An account of her reaction is on Page A-1- At rid smoke poured out of the wreckage of the silver and blue plane. Its tail tilted crazily and one engine lay near the rear. A twisted escape slide spilled out of a front doorway and the landing gear was crushed under the fuselage. Plane Captain Survives The survivors included the captain, Gilberto da Silva. Au lines officials said he had been flying for 25 years and had . logged 20.000 hours m the au-Da Silva and one other crew member w ere listed as seriously injured. The rest of the crew was reported by hospital officials as having moderate injuries, contusions and bums Two Ships In 1 Spray Wreckage With Foam Rescue workers sprayed the wreckage with billows of foam shot from truck mounted cannons Then water hoses were snaked into the aircraft, w hich had split dovv n the middle from front to back on impat. Dozens of ambulances surrounded the hospital attendplane and ants waited with stretchers as firemen earned out the bodies white-coate- The d flight originated in Sao in Rio It was due to fly nonstop to Pans, but made an unscheduled stop in Lisbon Vang Paulo and stopped The senator elicited from Mitchell that he had not informed the judge in the Daniel EUsberg Pentagon Papers trial when he learned that or anyone else LUsberg's psychiatrists office had been broken into by White House plumbers. That incident was one of the White Mitchell said he feared House horrors would be disclosed if he told Nixon about N-Zo- ne - The PAPEETE, TAHITI (AP) e hour for clearing out of France's South Pacific nuclear test zone passed Wednesday as a New Zealand warship and a civilian L'.S. protest yacht entered the danger area to shake the conscience of the world Although the French test senes was to begin at any time, the frigate fail-saf- the passengers. But the flames spewing from the aircraft were so hot that they melted away the left rear section and kept farm w ork-er- s who rushed to the spot many yards away until fire trucks arrived Firemen dug into the top of the plane with electric saws in attempts to get to the victims. All the passengers were strapped into their seats. Mitchells own reputation as an attorney and former attorney general came under attack by Sen. Lowell P. Wcicker who spoke of. several conJr., flicts in Mitchell's sworn testimony before the committee and his earlier statements under oath. Defy Tests 1 rerot, the control rancois tower chief at Orly, said that a minute and a half more and the Boeing could have landed in safety, perhaps saving all Jean-- Mitchell conceded that presidential silence about the Watergate scandal risks public suspicions but predicted "the good name of the President is going to be protected by the fjets and the President" himself W atergale. W eickcr in his quesliuns suggested that as a lawyer and officer of the court Mitchell should have spoken out because you knew silence might possibly convict an American citizen by means of illegal conduct. prohibOtago sailed into the ited zone around the Mururoa atoll atomic center with orders to remain as long as necessary. The Fn, a yacht skippered by David Moodie, an American, was reported 40 miles west of Mururoa. And then. W eickcr: Is there anything in this country outside the President of the United States that puts you m awe, Mr. The Fn is owned by Moodie and his wife, both of Sausalito, Calif. The Voice of Prophecy, radio arm of the Seventh-daAdventist faith in Glendale, Calif., said the ship is also carrying nine other men and two other women, none of whom was identified. Mitchell Mitchell: "Very many . . Do the courts put you in Weicker: awe? y Mitchell: "Very much so Weicker: Does your oath as an attorney put you in awe? French warships and air force planes watched the vessels and hunted for at least three more protest boats, one with retired French army Gen Jacques Paris de la Bollardiere aboard Todays Chuckle Sign m a photo lab: prints will come. Mitchell: Portrait of the Witness Nixon Lures Anonymous Lawyer of Public Experience By Michael McGovern and Worth Gatewood New A ork News Winters - A ORK NEW If Richard Nixon hadn t lured linn into the heady woild of power politics, John Newton Mitchell still would be a happily anonymous bond lawyer, snugged away with a tidy AJOOOOO a year and his' beloved Martha He must think about that a lot these day s Not that, the President directly contributed to Mitchell's Watergate woes, among them a federal indictment, but the former attorney general would never have risked the perils of public life for any less a figure than Nixon. Mitchell was a private man, private of mystery. In 1968, when he began to emerge as a man very dose to Nixon, few lawyers m Wall Street could recall him at all, although he had been a highly successful financial counsel then for 25 y ears. almost to the point class family (his father was in trading stamps), but the Mitchells moved when he was 5. first to Blue Point, LI. then to Jamaica. Queens, wlieie they bought a l.at of Two Article frame house net far fiom Jamaica High School It was a time for .lie young, and the Mitchells austere Presbyterian faith subjected John to a discipline that would be considered harsh today. two-stor- He was expected to do well in school and he did (a average all the way) and was warned of eternal damnation if he strayed from the path of righteousness Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A-5 Traditionally, a lawyer of his stature seals his prestige by becoming a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, but Mitchell never got around to it He brushed aside this oversight, if thats what it was, by saying that he worked downtown, the association was quartered uptown, and that he was a commuter who wanted to get the hell out of the city and get home Little Impact AND MORE ... AG Toodtown Four Tage Section; Cottonwood Mall Section He made so little impact around town To carry the saga of an farther, he was a talented athlete at Jamaica High- captain of the golt team and a slurp, aggiessive skater on three of the schools championship hock boy even - e so good that he ,went on to for the Jamaica Hawks of the old Metropolitan League (He has.n t skated ui years, but he still plays golf, he won't say how w ell ) play No Doubts Nothing in his family background pointed him tow ard the law ; he said he made up his mind at 9 to be a lawyer and ne'er doubted he would be anything else. He thought of entering Harvard, but for purely practical reasons the contacts he felt he could make in New- - A ork he chose Fordham and Fordham Law instead. Again, he w as a top scholar Im told, said a fnend, that when Mitchell took the bar exam m New York he got the highest mark among the 2,000 or so people who took it that year. The standings aren't given out but I've heard from three or four sources that he was the highest. Whatever his standing, Mitchell was so bright a prospect that he was taken on immediately after graduation as a tumor partner n a law firm that became Caldwell, Trimble and Mitchell And m those Depression times that was no mean feat He was a full partner by the time he was 30. Modest Building that it came as a surprise to most New Yoikers to learn that he was one of their own It was somehow assumed that Thursdays Forecast Mitchell, like so many of the men around Nixon, was out of the Midwest. He was, in fact, born in Detroit, on Sept 15, ton, to a moderately well off middle Salt Lake City and vicinity Fair to partly cloudy, some chance of thundershowers; slight cooling. Weather map is on Page B-- In his 20s, Mitcheli was married; not to Martha, but to Betty There is a first Mrs. Mitchell, now Mrs. Achilles J. Suy ker, a grandmotnerly blonde in her midjOs. Her husband was, until his Page 19, (olunin re-Se- e 1 Someday your " Very much so Do you feel as 3n officer Wcicker: of the court you did the right thing w lien you did not notify the prosecution, when you did not notify Judge (Matt) By rne of information you had in your possession? I think in retrospect it Mitchell: probably would have been the right thing to do. Mitchel. W tions eickcr said he had no further and Mitchell's appearance See Page 19, ques- was Column J Lioness Leaps, Grandmom Prays. . .Stabs - I said RAPID CITY, S D. (AP) a prayer that the Good Lord would give me the strength and the right said the spot, f grandmother who stabbed to death a bon that j mountain w as mauling her ear-ol- d Jl'-i-. . He noDine A. apart Peter was just the baby said Mrs. Underdahl of Mrs. Lnderdahl Anoka, Minn., in an interview Wednesday. The boy was attacked on Tuesday when the lioness leaped through the side vv mdow of a motorhome his mother was driving. All I kept saying was bring me a knife, bring me a knife, said Mrs. Underdahl, 53, a slender woman who stands about 5 feet. "Finally, my husband handed me a butcher knife and I jammed it in and twisted it and the lion went slack, and I knew I had pierced the heart. Jason Cow den, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Cowden of Anoka, was listed m serious but stable condition at a hospital here Officials sard the lioness weighed 120 pounds. Its head was sent to the state health department for rabies tests |