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Show m" 44 Percent of Americans Unconvinced by i v ixon TXT Bv John Herbers New York Times nter WASHINGTON - About 44 percent of those who watched President Nixon's Watergate address on television Wednesday right found the speech not at all "convincing while 27 percent concluded it wa or quite a lot'' "completely convincing, according to a Gallup Poll commissioned bv the New York Times and the Times News Service. pletelv convincing, 7 percent quite a lot, 27 percent somewhat, 55 percent not at ali and 4 percent had no opinion that about three in every four people believed the President was involved to some extent m Watergate That finding had remained at virtually the same level since early June. Among independents, too, tne PreMdent appears to luce" a credibility problem Of tho.se 3 n The aNo Vug poll snowed that 26 percent believed that President Nixon should be impeached and compelled to leave the presidency, an upward trend since late June when the figure was 13 percent polled, 13 percent found him completely convincing, r: percent quite a lot. 23 percent somewhat, 48 percent not at all and 4 percent had no opinion A spokesman the Gallup organization said the finding that oil percent did not behove President Nixon's assertion of noninvolvement in the planning or rovenip could not be compared to the finding of previous polls about earlier denials bv the President, because the question was asked specifically m regard to tho Wednesday night speech Other Poll Results f.-- Other highlights of the poll showed that half of those who watched the address did not believe the President s statement that he had no involvement in the planning or of the Watergate burglary, that 56 percent believed he should turn over tape recordings related to the case to the Watergate committee and the courts and that 58 percent disagree with the Presidents statement that cunl rights ard antiwar protests helped create the atmosphere that led to the Watergate crimes. cov-eru- p Telephone Survey The survey was conducted by telephone Thursday night from a national sample of 810 adults. On a sample of that size, according to polling experts, the margin of error can be as much as 4 percentage points either way. Public opinion is considered particularly important in the current phase of the Watergate scandal because President Nixon's address, a defense of his conduct in the to matter, was designed appeal directly to the people rather than to Congress or his critics. Further, opinion sampling by members of Congress, who are now in recess, may determine how hard congressional committees push investigations into various aspects of .Watergate and other government corruption. Interest High The Gallup organization said that 77 percent of those contacted saw the Nixon address Typical Reason To find out why people responded as they did to the Nixon speech, the New York Times randomly in'ervicwed in several cities persons who had watched the speech The were conducted interviews separately from the Gallup Poll a Mrs Devine, Lucy school Detroit teacher, gave a typical reason for finding the President However, a regular Gallup Poll, based on interviews with 1,435 adults Aug. showed unconvincing "He said the same things he had been saying all along, the same wav lie didn't change his approach. It could have been one of ID specifies lve heard him muse other hand, the On conn nv. tooth deca.y and " Robert gh wife of a service station manager, sa she found the lbesi-den- t "completely convincing felt that by what he said and how ho talked lie wasn't inIf he volved in Watergate were he'd know more about it. agent, explained it 1 One of the most surprising findings in the poll was that most people' do not agree wiln Nixon that the Watcrgale crimes had tlioir roots m tho protest movements of the lilbO's Blamed for it All "My God, said Loire Millo-ry- , a Tentpe. youth An, counselor "Wo.e blaming hippies and blacks for everything that's wrong in this ' Another question asked in the "President poll was Nixon saul that Watereate should now be a mailer for the c nuts al'me and that the n.i'um shell'd now vet ,m U1jh Do vou its o'her agree or disagree with turn" The response was "i? percent yc. 38 percent no and 5 percent no opinion 'm'rwr')-- Go to Court The question was found to be somewhat ambiguous, but there was no doubt that a large proportion of those questioned agreed that the mutter should go to the court T tend to agree with the will streamline the methods of presenting evidence, the methods of acquiring a better said Schaber, a rerecord, tired judge. Still See, Uear In addition to individual television sets, the circular courtroom also has an electronic isolation booth where unruly defendants can be prevented from disturbing the proceedings while still seeing and hearing what is going on. The audio piped into the defendants small holding cage can be translated into his native tongue if he doesnt understand English. Five videotape cameras are placed in unobserved locations around the room to record the trial without disturbing the participants. - judge and attorneys. "Practicing law in todays is like regular courtroom doing surgery in a barbershop, said law school Dean Gordon D. Schaber in unveiling the futuristic tnal facility. Courtroom practices in the United States havent changed in more than 100 years," said Judge John J. Dutton, director of the schools Center for Legal Advocacy. If you took Aaron Burr and put him in a Brooks Bros, suit, he'd feel nght at home in todays courtrooms. The Evidence can be automat- ically flashed onto the screens beside the judg", jury' new teaching facility and witnesses instead of the current cumbersome task of handing it around the courtroom. Key witnesses too busy to appear at the trial can be at their ofcross-examine- fices and a videotape recording shown to jurors Big Expense All of the equipment, including a special soundproof glass enclosure for the news media, is a unquestionably big expense- initially, but should result in large ov erall sav ings in courtroom costs because of speeding up the system, Schaber said. - Lawyers using the facility, Schaber said, will like the efficient methods of presenting evidence, the good lighting and lack of distractions The jurors, he said, "will like the fact they are seated on one level behind desks per - to mean we're she s.ml bung the to t going to forgo! ll The belief that Nixon should release the tapes seemed to be based atnoi g llio-- e i'vr-lowed sop.i, ately fimn the poll on ihe op mon that they would help to c lai ify tin- c se - The most fjvorablejygionnl response to the Pusident's speech came from theSouth. Per example, a majority of those polled in lhe South, ,52 pc rc ent said, they believed Lhe President when he cutd he had no involvement in the planning or coverup of W'atti-ite Nationally, only is l said they so believed, a ul in the east only 31 percent said they believed him. while 57 pei cant said they did g per-un- "It's sheer follv for him to keep the ipos." aid J.idine I 0 linen K ot Pot Hand, "1 feel he s gmitv of covenng up because be won t Maine riot release them " (Copyright) 'fmiwj 'fm'fm1) 1 I mit. ng them to take no'cs and with the backs of their chairs to the audience they will be fiee from distractions. "They also will have a new l sense of belonging to the system, rather than being perched u)i in a box as oh si rvers." he added tudi-cia- Do something high fashion for your feet Perry Mason'. The new faculty, named the "courtroom of the future' by its profesMir-duden- t develop its. could well be named after Perry Mason, the fictional television lawyer. Raymond Burr, the actor who played Mason, contributed $159,000 toward construction of the facility. Sc. labor said the courtroom would be put mto daily use when classes start next fall He said the first teaching (lass case would be piesided ovtr by iitired I S Supreme Court Justice Tom (Talk 1 The Aquarius, super style in crinkle patent and glove leather. Hand rubbed composition sole and heel. Tanbrown or rustblack; sizes 12 C and D widths. 7-1- 1, 21.95 d The Saddle, new in e suedeleather with cushion crepe sole. Browndark brown, 12 tanbrown or creamblue. Sizes C and D widths. two-ton- 7-1- 1, 20.95 ? Men's Shoes, Salt Lake Fashion Place. & on television, an unusually high figure that indicated a strong interest in the topic. 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