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Show f r ,ffj r. l 0JW& gr Salt Lake City, Utah Vol. 207, No. 110 tfr M & WW September Saturday Morning i H 14 ITur 1. 107.) Nixom, Agmew Chart Charges Rival Died In Crash Panel Ponders By Km Mew art New York Times Writer Meet Today to Air 'Kickback Probe Relationship To Watergate KONG China Friday ported publicly (or the fir.st time that the late defense minister. Lin Piao. designated successor to communist party chairman Mao had attempted to assassinate Mao and "set up a r.al central committee " WASHINGTON The iluet counsel to the Senate Watergate committee disclosed Friday that committee stall members are tn touch with the Justice Department to determine whether kiekb.iik allegations involving Vice President Spuo T Agnevv fall within the scope of the committees investigation "On Sept U. 1971. alter lus conspiracy had collapsed. Lm Piao surreptitiously boarded a plane, tied as a defector to the Soviet revisionists in betrayal of the party and country, and died in a crash at I'ndur Khan in the People's Republic of i stated m Mongolia. Premier Chou a report to the recently concluded 10th congress of the Chinese Communist Purtv En-lu- anti-part- y Feels a 'Responsibility' He said that white he had no information that would indicate that the allegations fell within the committee's purview, he fell a "responsibility" to puiMk the muttei kick-bac- c The Chinese leader announced that China would soon convene the Fourth National Peoples Congress The Congress. which elects China's government leaders, has not met m more than eight foi-m- Chinese-Amenca- n The report also took note of the normalization of relations between China and Japan and said friendly contacts between the Chinese people and the people of other countries were "more extensive than ever " We assist and support each other impelling the world S'tuation to continue to develop m the direction favorable to the report the people of all countries. said Chou said the west always wanted to "urge the Soviet revisionists eastward to divert the penl towards China" and this would be fine so long as all was quiet in' the west. Coveted by All "China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all. he said. "But this piece of meat is very tough and for years no one has been able to bite into it II is even more difficult now than Lin Piao has fallen " the 'super-sp(( opy right) L Deputy pi ess secietaiy Gel aid Warren said Ngnevv had requested the meeting, vvtmh will be held the moi'mig Nixon Fuss Solon Cites Redated Land Sale Reuters News Agency - k The Vickers ovager waits off Cork, Ireland, as rescuers work to bring up the Pisces III, a mini-sutrapped two days ago. b Subs Air Runs Short, Rescuers Try Again - CORK. IRELAND ( P) nudget submarine dived into the black Atlantic a second time early Saturday m an attempt to rescue two Britons ir a sister sub mired on the ocean bottom with only a few hours of air remaining The trapped men. Roger Mallnison. J3 and Roger Chapman. 28. radioed a cheerful message to their mother ship on the surface saving they were fit and well Fndav wasMa'.hnson's birthday Forced to Surface EifrLer Uie rescue sub. Pisces It. had operational problems and was lorced to surface without connecting a recoven cable to the disabled vessel Mallmson and Chapman have been entombed at a depth of 1 375 feet. 150 miles south of Cork, since Wednesday . spokesman for Nickers Oceanic, owners ol the submannes. said "The Pisces II will try to attach a cable to the trapped craft so that the mother ship Vickers Noyager cun winch her to the surface " A chiel. Nickers' oceanic Groogdty Mott, said the rescue team was still confident that the stricken Pisces III would be brought to the suifaee belore its air supply rail out. estimated to be about b am MDTSaturdav Level Okay said oxygen and carbon dioxide readings in the trapped sub were st.ll at an "acceptable level " T he Pisces III sank to the bottom of the ocean Wednesday morning. It had been laying a transatlantic cable when a snapped tow rope sent it plunging into the mud on the sea bed He Two other rescue vessels, the Canadian minisub Pisces V and the American unmanned recovery vehicle Curv III. were standing by on the surface readv to dive if needed The Pisces V earlier had been dispatched to the trapped sub but vvis brought up foi a battery lechaisre The See Page 2. ( itlumn 5 spokesman lor Archibald Cox. the Watergate special prosecutor, said the Agtiew matter had been discussed by Cox and Elliot L. Richardson, the attoi-negeneral, and that it was decided that it was not germane to the inquiry y Agnevv. who is meeting with the President at the W lute House Saturday at his own request, is under federal investigation tor possible involvement m an alleged kiekbacK scheme involving Maryland politicians and contractors, during the time he was chief executive oi Baltimore County, governor of Maryland and. possibly, since he became vice president Committee to Decide that the committee perhaps at a meeting next Sept 10. whether or not to issue an interim report on the phase of Dash also said will decide, its Watergate investigation Committee lawyers are at work on further legal arguments in anticipation ol the White House reply to the committee's motion this week asking lor a quick judgment m its efforts to gain access to President Nixons Watergate-relatesecret tape recordings, tie said The committee is expected to reopen its hearing1 about Sept. 17. shifting 'heir focus from Watergate to the "dirty tricks" of the 1172 presidential campaign d (Copyiglii) Todays Chuckle some men take a dav and some women take a vear off On birthdays, off A Democratic conWASHINGTON gressman claimed Friday that a dale in ol the record ol President NYxnn's pait ol lus Calif or- ma property at San Clemente was altered at the request of one ol the Pi resident's lawyers But the lute house promptly rethe that plied change m the date did not matter, and NN it that itched sv coincide was only' to with the Rep. Brooks as signed It s much ado about nothing The date does not matter at all That's why it was made to conlorm " piesidential spokesman Gerald Warren said w Jack Brooks ). chairman of the house government operations subcommittee. which is looking into federal to improve expenditures presidential properties, said the date ol a survey agreement attached to the sale agreement had been changed to Dec 15. 1970 x He said he could oiler no motive for the change, but said the document could not have been prepared before Dee 28 at the earliest The White House issued a report Monday detailing transactions involved in the acquisition of Nixon's properties in Cah-lo- i ma and Florida Appended was a sales agreement, dated Dec 15. showing that President and Mrs. Nixon had sold property to Robert Abplanulp and C. G. (Bebe) Reboo as partners in B and C Investment Co Both Abplanulp and Reboo are close Inends ol the President Clears Vietnam Vets Of GOP Riot Conspiracy By Timothy S. Robinson Washington Post Wnter GAINESVILLE. FLA. Eight members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War were ' acquitted Friday of charges that they planned to start a riot at last years Republican convention - Theirs may have been one of the last political conspiracy trials growing out of the antiwar movement. The jury deliberated less than four hours before deciding to free the lons- - Adieu, Rogers Tells Friends - William P. (AP) Rogers, the nation's 55th secretary of state, spent his last day in office Friday WASHINGTON saying goodby to old friends and associ- ates. Rogers, who has resigned effective Monday, arrived late for work and then spent a lengthy lunch with colleagues. He and Mrs. Rogers later greeted State Department employes for two hours in the secretarys large office. d In Washington, a spokesman for the vice pi evident said Agnevv had asked for the meeting but said "there is no intention on the vice president's part to bring up the subject ol resignation The spokesman Pi ess Secretaiy J Marsh Thomson acknowledged that the aftair gave an impression of bemg hurriedly arranged, but sought to dispel Hus idea Nixon, he said, is not huirying back from San Clemente in order to meet with Agnew. and there is nothing particularly unusual about them meeting on a Salur- "As 1 understand it, it is in the g of the vice presidents terest in bringing the President nature in- up to Thomson said date. Claims no Information . ing will be the fust the two between meeting since Aug 7. the day before Agnew called a news conference to denounce as "damned lies the allegations that he received kickbacks The Saturday session e have Since Aug 7, Nixon and Agnew on the telephone once. White House officials said. That was on Aug. 22, the day Nixon repeated at a California m news conference his confidence talked Agnews integrity Warren said in response to questions that he did not know why the vice president wanted to meet with JN'ixon He said indiAgnew, working through his staff, cated a desire to talk to the President He added, m answering another question, that Hie status of the investigation very probably will come up at the Saturday meeting Motorists Take To Road For Holiday By five-wee- k Fourteen U.S. marshals stood m the courtroom to prevent any disruption as the verdict was read When the first "er-diwas read by the of not guilty courtroom clerk, smiles began erupting all around the defense table Associated Press face of threatened gas station closings in some areas, millions of Americans began motor trips Friday night as part of their celebration of the Labor Day weekend. In the The closings were threatened m scattered areas in protest against Phase IV controls on gasoline and diesel fuel. A nationwide protest was called off after a federal court Thursday delayed for a week enforcement of a new price schedule Estimates Deaths y As the readings continued, defendant Stanley Michclsen walked over to defendant Alton Foss and hugged hint tightly. But the defense waited most anxiously for the verdict on alleged ringleader Scott Camil, a sergeant who was charged with as possession of destructive devices well as conspiracy. Wbrnt Camil was acquitted as well, Defense Attorney Larry Turner stepped back from the table and put two clenched fists into the air Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page 2 d Stand Silent After the last verdict was read. U S. District Judge Winston E. Amow called all eight defendants and six defense attorRogers plans o return to law practice neys to the front of the court to officially tn New York but has indicated he will release the defendants from the indictkeep his house' in Washington and ment They stood silent, with arms expects to return to the capital frequentlSec Page 2, Column 3 y- l 6 Saturdays Forecast i Associated Press Wireohoto r Gainesville 8 defendants Stanley Miehelson, far left. and Alton Foss, far right, sinou as they leave federal court where ail were acquired spiring to commit violence at 72 Republican meet. of con- Salt lake City and vicinity Variable cloudiness with chance of some showers; - cooling trend. NVeather man is on Pom ' i w 7: Justice Department otticials said they have had no information about the meet- The National Safety Council estimated 550 and 650 persons might be killed m traffic accidents during the weekend The period covered by the estimate extended from 6 p.m. Fndav to midnight Monday in each daylight time zone The last six hours of Fnday are added to the three days of he weekend to account for motonsts starting tnps at the end of the Fnday work day. 580 Die Last year 580 persons were killed in Labor Day weekend traffic. The council said that while it has no statistics to cover a comparable nonhoh-dawepkend, it believes traffic fatalities run about 25 percent higher dunng holt days g bushy-beare- Cab-imni- v stay that between detendants who haired, case had claimed during the that the government was prosecuting them in an attempt to discredit the VVAW and justify the Watergate breakin "They had nothing on those boys." said juror Gerald Bennett, a utility company lineman heie 14 Marshals Guard tatigue-weann- Nivun e N Associated P'css Wireohoto years The premier's report, which was adopted by the party congress, gave party endorsement to Chous foreign policy moves, which have broadened Pekings diplomatic links, especially with regard to the United States. It noted that relations had "been improved to some extent Warren would not say whether Nixon had gotten new information on the Agnew investigation But. responding to what he called a lot ol rumors, he said as far there as the President was concerned, would be no discussion of the vice presidents lesignution " Agr.ew Seeks Meeting "We aie seeking to get as much inhumation as we can to determine ll it comes within our resolution." he said to the Senate resolution that established the committee and defined its jurisdiction Chou's report concentrated mainly on the "victory of smashing the Lm Piao clique but also dealt w ith the general situation at home and abroad. nature the report reBy its inforced the position of Chou as the foremost interpreter of policy on both dom-stiaffairs and foreign etfairs second in the hierarchy only to Mao Notes Improvements T government contractin' The counsel. Samuel Dash, answering reporters questions at a breakfast meet- ing with newsmen, said the action was taken "fairly recently" and because "questions had been put to us trom so man sources." not on the basis ol any particular inhu mation that he has Releases Report Hstnhuu. the Chinese news agency, Chou's repoil Inday night Earlier this week. Hsinhua reported that the party congress, held from Aug. 24 to 2b. had expelled Lin from the party together with Chen Po-ta former senior oificial who was linked to the defense minister after Agnevv will meet Saturday inormng at the White Mouse in Washington to discuss the continuing investigation ol allegations Agnew received kickbacks from l.mua Charlton New Yolk Tunes Writei By from a U.EMENTG. CALIF ( P -President Nixon and Nice President Spun SNN Tse-tun- 4 Ten Cents H China Airs Plot To Kill Mao HONG 713 |