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Show 1 Vol. 207, No. Salt Lake City, Utah Monday Morning iOO Juy 23, Nixon Nixon Refuses Iiunch t To Release Phone Tapes Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The White House has informed the Senate Watergate committee that President Nixon will not surrender White House documents and tapes of presidential conversations, The Associated Press learned Sunday. The Senate panel is scheduled to meet in executive session Monday to receive Nixons letter of refusal, and all indications are that the seven-macommittee will vote unanimously to issue a subpoena for the Watergate-relatematerials. - n d Rejects Ervin The President earlier refused Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr.s request for White House documents and pointedly rejected the committee chairmans suggestions that the President appear voluntarily be- - scope of the investigation the Senate. 29 Ser. Sam J. Ervin Jr., chairman of the Watergate committee, contends that the tapes of presidential conversations with Watergate figures and certain documents in their files do relate to the matters the select committee is authorAnd he told Nixon in ized to investigate. a letter last week that access to relevant documents should not be delayed if the committee is to perform its mission. About - ' .O s' s 7 y'' sx " & s ' ' i'4: ! ' '' had occurred. Stein said Phase 4 will serve its functo get us over certain transition tionary periods to a situation in which we will have reasonable price stability, high employment and a high level of economic ... activity. We knew when we started it that no one was going to like it, he said. Once you undertake the business of running everybodys life for him youre going to find that nobody likes it. But we are in this business and we are going to try to get out of it as soon as we can. Mars shots during that time would launch take advantage of the a month-lonwindow," period that occurs every 26 months when Mars and the earth are in the correct orbital alignment for a launch. g f. ' 'V '' ' N" ' - Butz spoke on the NBC television program Meet the Press and Stein on CBS Face the Nation. S':;'!' VN. ' s ' Deliver Forecasts Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan, and IssuvS on ABCs speaking Answers, said the continuing wage increase guideline of 5.5 percent was flexible and predicted that the Cost of Living Council would approve labor contracts that go above it to meet increased living costs. We all have to realize we all have to make some sacrifices, he said. We have to cooperate. The American people have a good idea of what is good for them and good for the country. Stein said Phase 4, announced Secretary by Treasury Wednesday George P. Shultz, was designed to slow down the rate of price increases . . . inpermit those price responses, price of to production get creases, necessary most critical things, particularly food, and gradually fade out on time so we can get back to a free market. , s'" SN v V' that although Launch Window 7; v':'.y ' Secretary Earl Butz said food prices would rise somewhat, the largest increase already Agriculture Positions A British exper who talked with Soviet scientists in Moscow earlier this year said Mars 4 may be followed by one or two more Mars probes before Aug. 9. V TO " ' ' to:. ' ' s s .. ss' . $ IWW Big Hikes Are Over Butz said he could not be precise about food increases, but noted: gwtn WaterThe President held a gate strategy meeting Saturday with chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler and two presidential attorneys, Leonard Garment and J. Fred Buzhardt. The White House, meanwhile, was setting up defenses on other fronts to keep Weve had a substantial increase food prices in the last six or eight months. There is no question that the heavy part of our rise is behind us. Were going to see some higher prices of poultry meat temporarily. Were going to see some higher prices of pork. The price of beef remains frozen. We feel the price pressures under beef are not as severe as those under poultry and under pork. Under Phase 4 price ceilings, the price freeze on beef, announced last spring, will be lifted Sept. 12. Butz said the prices of fruits and vegetables would depend on the production of the current growing season. Stein said increases in egg prices would be the first to show up on supermarket shelves because their retail sale was the closest of farm products to the original production. Beneficial Results Talk Order When the senators sought to question Secret Service agents about the installaNo White House officials said the President wasn't backing away from earlier promises of cooperation with the committee. They said he was following a policy that executive privilege would be invoked to prevent the Senate panel from delving into White House procedures or straying outside the ty '' J ,... , g Associoted Officer, lower .ight, aboard a New' Zealand ship observes huge j Press Wirebhoto ball of smoke in Soutn Pacific bomb; as France explodes Stein said that price controls, in effect since August, 1971, have produced a net plus. We have had in the past two years since we adopted the controls a very big expansion in the economy and a very big increase in employment and a very big increase in output and a very big page 4, Column 1 Bad Weather Moves In France Delays 2nd Nuclear Blast in Pacific Reuters News Agency NEW ZEALAND WELLINGTON, Poor weather Monday (Monday) apparently prevented France from exploding its second nuclear device in its 1973 test series in the South Pacific, according to a report from the New Zealand frigate Otago. The 2,450-tofrigate moved in close to the Muroroa Atoll early Monday for an expected test but no nuclear device was exploded. The weather over the Atoll was reported unsuitable. France set off a small nuclear device at Muruioa Sunday morning. It was believed to ha.e involved a trigger device for a hydrogen bomb. New Zealand protested to France Satwas oburday against the first test which 22 miles away. served by the Otago only New Zealand Prime Minister Norman Kirk said news of the first test, observed New Zealand frigat from the 2,450-to22 miles off the test site at Otago only Mururo Atoll, would cause dismay in many countries. n Orders Strong Protest I have directHis statement added: ed that a strong protest be conveyed immediately through the New Zealand emthe French have bassy in Pans spurred a binding order of the InternaImnal Court of Justice thus failing in ... . ... 1 "f ? I fvv ' V -- &' 44 i : F- ft Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz discusses rising farm costs and I tf. 1.' Va Associoted Press Wircohold other facets of economy during interview, on TV program. Passengers, Crew Swelter in the committee investigators from coming through a side entrance as they did last week by eliciting from a peripheral witness the revelation that Nixons offices and telephones were bugged. When committee staff members tried to interview Rose Mary Woods, the Presidents confidential secretary and executive assistant. White House officials objected. tion of electronic eavesdropping equipment in presidential offices, Nixon ordered his bodyguard force not to talk. of my. positions of the station and have been determined, Tass said. It said the equipment aboard Mars 4 was functioning normally but gave no indication what it included. '? .;. :x7:-- s - " '' xj ; fore the committee to defend himself against charges by John W. Dean III that Nixon participated in the Watergate coverup. After discovering that since 1971 Nixon had recorded his meetings and telephone calls from his Washington offices, Ervin renewed the request for documents. expanding the committee's shopping list to include tapes of presidential conversations with Watergate figures. White House officials had indicated the request would be denied, and it was learned that word of the refusal was conveyed to the committee Sunday. Details of the Presidents position were not ' - Herbert Stem, President Nixons Council of Economic Advisors, Sunday predicted Phase 4 would bring about stable prices, high employment and an expanded econoWASHINGTON chairman carrier - W Public sessions of the Watergate hearings will be broadcast Monday beginning at 8 a.m. over television station KCPX Channel 4. A rebroadcast of the hearings will begin at 8 p.m. on KUED. By James Gerstenzang Associated Press Writer 20 its rocket By withholding the materials, Ervin told a weekend news conference, the President is making it more difficult for the members of the committee to cling to a presumption of innocence of w rongdoing on his part. Hearings on TV revealed. A Soviet space MOSCOW (AP) probe hurtled toward Mars Sunday on a journey expected to increase the Kremlins lead in research on the red planet. The Mars 4 probe was launched late Saturday night from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The mission was announced by the news agency Tass Sunday morning after the craft blasted out of earth orbit for the trip. mandated by Council Foresees t t nw By Michael Putzel Price Ten Cents 1973 their obligations as a member of the United Nations. New Zealand will continue its efforts to end the tests, he declared. Deputy Prime Minister Hugh Watt said in a television interview he was disgusted that France had continued atmospheric testing in face of world opinion, and world court ruling. Opposition National Party leader John Marshall also deplored the test. Other countries joined Monday in France's protesting against the test 27th in the Pacific area since she switched testing from Algeria seven years ago. Ignore Janan Protests - In Tokyo the foreign ministry spokes- - Todays Chuckle Old age is that morning after feeling without the night before. man said Japan had lodge a protest and demanded immediate suspension of the testing. The government statement said it regietted that France had ignored Japans repeated protests. Four opposition parties issued a statement denouncing the carrying out of the test in defiance of world opinion and lodged separate protests at the French embassy in Tokyo. There were also demonstrations See Page 2, Column 5 Hijacked Craft Stays On Airport Runway DUBAI (AP) -j- The Japan Air Lines umbo jet hijacked over Europe on after nightfall day was still on the with no Sunday, word from the air pirates on their next move. The hijackers ordered the plane refueled earlier and released a crew member who said claimed to they have rigged the plane Mr. Mtyashita with explo- sives. The 122 passengers and 21 crew members, meanwhile, sweltered as the plane sat on a runway of this Arab shiefdom on the Persian Gulf. Temperatures rose to degrees during the day. The plane was refueled after the hijackers rejected an appeal for release of the men and women issued by President Sheikh Zaid bin Sultan al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates. 110 A Beirut newspaper said in an unconfirmed report that the hijackers also were demanding $5 million. The Boeing 747 was commandeered by a team of as many as five hijackers after it Ibft Amsterdam on Friday for a flight to Tokyo. The hijackers identified themselves as sons of occupied territory of Jerusalem, a previously unknown guerrilla group Purser Released Yoshihisa Miyashita, a purser on the plane, was released after being wounded for hospitalization in a grenade explo- sion that killed one of the hijackers shortly after the plane left Amsterdam. He said Sunday the pirates told the passengers after landing here: We have placed bombs at all th See Page 2, Column Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page 2 The hijackers did not indicate where they might head if they took to the air again, an airport security officer said. Demand Freedom The i.ijackers have demanded freedom for the only survivor of a Japanese Red Army suicide squad that massacred 26 people at Tel Aviv Airport in May 1972. The prisoner, Kozo Okamato, is serving a life sentence at a maximum security prison 10 miles from Tel Aviv. Israel gave no immediate response to the demand, but the Israeli government has frequently rejected blackmail demands in the past. Mondays Forecast Salt Lake City and Vicinity ally fair and cool. Lows mid-50- . . Weather Map, Page 10. Gene Higl mid-80s- Senate Reformers, Foes to Debate Campaign Spending By Peter Braestrup Washington Post Writer The Senate begins WASHINGTON debate Monday on the first major campaign spending bill since the Watergate with no great promise hearings began of congressional support. Federal Election The bill, entitled Campaign Act of 1973, would set up a commission to bipartisan enforce new curbs on spending, tighten some, but not all. fund reporting proce-- . dures and ban straight cash donations 6ver $100. It does not attempt to provide federal takeover of campaign financing or free radio and television time to candidates - seven-perso- n issues due to come up in separate bills after Congress August recess. Both reformers and their foes have found plenty of faults in the Senate bill, which came out of the Committee on Rules and Administration headed by Sen. Howard Cannon, on July 11. v. The Cannon panels No. 2 Democrat, .Sen. Claiborne Pell, described the bill as an earnest effort to bar a excesses repetition of the in funuing of the 1972 presidential camlaunpaign ranging from Mexican dering of cash donations to evasion of the 1971 law now on the books. d However, Pell added, noting several loopholes in the proposed law. it would be a disservice to the public to argue that the bill would completely eliminate campaign financing abuses. Sen. Marlow Cook, complained that the bill sets no limit on the number of special interest committees that can be created to raise money for a candidate, or on how much money they can raise. The bill would also repeal a section of the 1971 law that prohibits unions or companies doing business with the government from setting up voluntary a political contribution programs change opposed by Common Cause but backed by AFL-CIand corporations alike. 1971 requirement, designed to spotlight conflicts of interest, that the occupations of campaign donors be reported. Limits, under the new Senate bill, are set for campaign outlays by candidates for Congress and the presidency, but the 1971 law's ceilmg on a candidate's expenditures for media advertising would be repealed. Limits are also set for individual donations up to $5,000 per congressional candidate and $15,000 for a presidential candidate in each primary or general election, but in no case to exceed $100,000 per calendar year to all candidates and committees. The bill would repeal the fund-raisin- The new bill also would eliminate a equal time provisions of federal law for candidates for all federal office, which now require broadcasters to give the same amount of free time to all major or minor party candidates for office.. Last week, the Los Angeles Times restaff members of 25 reform-minde- d senators met to coordinate strategy for strengthening the Rules Committee mil by amendment on the floor this week. Sen. Alan Cranston. is expected to lead the floor fight, especially for tighter curbs on and spending by individual campaign committees. i i ported, fund-raisin- g |