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President Nixon, who has vowed to meet the Watergate crisis “head-on,” is now faced with
a new decision — whether to allow his personal secretary of 20 years, Miss Rosemary
Woods, to testify about the Watergate tape recordings. U. S. District Court Judge John J.
Sirica ordered Nov. 7 that Miss Woods appear before him to answer questions about the
tapes after it was revealed she has had possession of several of the tapes. Nixon is seen in
file photo with Miss Woods. (UPI)
Nixon’s latest
Will his secretary testify on tapes
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon, who has
vowed to meet the Watergate
crisis “head on” is now faced
with a new decision—whether
to allow his personal secretary
of 20 years, Miss Rosemary
Woods, to testify about the
Watergate tape recordings.
U.S. District Court Judge
John J. Sirica Tuesday ordered
Miss Woods to appear before
him to answer questions about
tl.e tapes after it was revealed
she has had possession of
several of the tapes. It was
uncertain when, or if, she
would appear.
White House aide Stephen
Bull, testifying at an inquiry
into why two of the nine tapes
subpoened by Watergate
prosecutors and which Nixon
has agreed to turn over to
Sirica were missing, said he
had taken about a dozen White
House tapes to Camp David,
Md., the weekend of Sept. 29
for Miss Woods and the
President to review.
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Bull said he returned four or
five of the tapes to the White
House but the others remained
with Miss Woods “for at least a
week.” Another witness, retired
Army Maj. Gen. John C.
Bennett, deputy to White House
chief of staff Alexander M.
Haig, said eight of the tapes
still have not been returned.
“Someone get word to Miss
Woods that she will be called as
a witness in this case,” Sirica
said following the disclosure.
A White House spokesman,
however, said he did not know
if President Nixon would allow
Miss Woods to testify.
But the White House did say
Nixon was aware of the public
crisis of confidence in his
leadership and “intends to meet
this matter head on.”
“He is fully conscious of the
scope of the situation,” Deputy
White House Press Secretary
Gerald Warren said. Other
White House officials suggested
Nixon is considering a series of
steps to present his case to the
public.
The Senate Watergate com
mittee, meanwhile, is seeking a
face-to-face meeting with Nixon
to discuss the Watergate affair.
Panel Reaches Agreement
Meeting Tuesday, the panel
reached a “consensus
agreement” in which commit
tee lawyers would try to meet
with the White House staff to
arrange a session allowing
Nixon “to make any statements
he wants to make, and have the
committee ask questions.
Warren, however, when asked
about the committee
agreement, said “I’m not
prepared to respond to such
specific requests and propo
sals.”
The calls for full disclosure
on Nixon’s part also mounted
Tuesday with former Attorney
General Elliot Richardson say
ing such a presidential commit
ment was the only way Nixon
could restore “deeply eroded
public confidence” and end the
calls for his resignation or
impeachment.
Richardson, who resigned
rather than carry out White
House orders to fire Special
Prosecutor Archibald Cox, also
said Nixon had talked of firing
Cox as early as Sept. 29—some
Nixon
to talk
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon planned to go
on television tonight to present
to the nation an austerity
program for coping with a
“very acute” energy crisis.
White House aides said the
program probably would in
clude slower driving this
winter, fewer Christmas lights
and less frequent airline flights.
The exact time of the
President’s address was not
fixed but was expected to be
early evening.
Nixon called in his Cabinet
Tuesday afternoon for an hour
and a half discussion on the
fuel shortage, pushed to critical
proportions both by the war in
the Middle East and by the
prospects for an unusually cold
winter.
He scheduled another meet
ing with congressional leaders
of both parties today to discuss
the problem. His chief energy
adviser, John Love, scheduled a
meeting with city officials from
throughout the country.
Nixon last June called for a 5
per cent reduction in national
energy consumption during the
current year through such
voluntary efforts as driving at
slower speeds, turning off
unneeded outdoor lighting,
more efficient scheduling of
public transportation and turn
ing down thermostaats in
homes and businesses.
His aides said they expected
him to ask Congress for powers
to enforce some of these
conservation measures, includ
ing regulation of closing hours.
They said he may even
request standby authority to
order consumer rationing, a
move he is on record as
strongly opposing and one
which would only be used if the
shortages worsened beyond
current expectations.
Judge Whalen criticizes
MacDougall, Gov. Carter
Judge Andrew Whalen Jr., in
his charge to the Upson County
Grand Jury Monday, lashed out
at Ellis MacDougall, head of the
Georgia Department of Of
fender Rehabilitation, and at
Gov. Jimmy Carter who was
quoted as saying he supported
MacDougall.
According to the Thomaston
Free Press, the words were
stirred by a recent letter
Whalen, along with other
Georgia superior court judges,
received from MacDougall,
urging the judges to “exhaust
every alternative when you
have convicted felons rather
than send them to prison.”
The reason the letter cited
for this recommended treat
ment was crowded conditions in
the state penitentiary.
Judge Whalen also was upset
by a plan announced by the
Department of Offender
Rehabilitation for putting
people convicted of "murder,
three weeks before Cox’s ouster
on Oct. 20.
The former attorney general
made his remarks in testimony
in opposition to several bills
pending in the Senate which
would create a special prosecu
tor independent of the White
House.
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rape and aggravated assault in
Fulton County on probation”
and sending them to reside 60 to
120 in a Hapeville motel for
“psychiatric treatment” after
which they would be turned
back to society or even hired as
counselors to help other in
mates.
Whalen said that in the Griffin
Judicial Circuit, law enforce
ment officers give every effort
to have the safety of persons
and property that people ex
pect. He said crime and punish
ment will continue “com
patible” in the Griffin circuit,
modern criminologists, even
with the support of Gov. Jimmy
Carter not withstanding.
Calling for punishment to
meet the crime, he touched on
the national situation and noted
that even “the president is not
immune to any law ch- legal
process of the court.”
He criticized the U. S. Justice
Department’s handling of
former Vice President Spiro
Agnew’s case by accepting a
nolo contendre plea from
Agnew and putting him on
probation. Whalen declared
that “people should stand equal
under the law.”
The Griffin Circuit judge
concluded by saying that “some
well intentioned people are
getting totally away from
everything we have ever
believed in, in punishment for
law violation in this country.. .
Unless there is a return to the
belief that crime and punish
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country and state and it con
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13 have
hepatitis
in Calhoun
ATLANTA (UPI) - Thirteen
persons in the north Georgia
town of Calhoun came down with
hepatitis after eating oysters at
a local Elks Club in late Sept
ember, authorities disclosed
Tuesday.
Investigators also reported a
“considerable number” of gal
lons of the same oysters were
shipped into Atlanta, though no
cases of the disease have been
reported here.
Dr. John E. McCroan, chief
epidemiologist for the Georgia
Department of Human Re
sources, said four of the people
who contracted hepatitis were
hospitalized and that all 13 are
still being monitored.
An agency spokesman said it
was probably that the oysters
sold in Atlanta were cooked be
forehand, because they had been
shucked prior to shipment. He
said, however, that restaurants
in the Atlanta area were being
checked.
Eight bags of unshacked oy
sters went to Calhoun, and were
served uncooked on the half
shell Sept 21 er 22, he said.
The spokesman said the oy-
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, November?, 1973
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MIAMI, Fla. — Florida Power and Light supervisor
works on a pole as a Miami policeman, stands watch.
FP&L claims some 600 acts of vandalism, mostly in the
Dade-Broward County areas, have occurred since the
beginning of the strike by electric workers. (UPI)
sters apparently came from an
approved source in Louisiana
and were repacked in Alabama,
with the unshucked oysters go
ing to Calhoun and a “consider
able number” to Atlanta.
McCroan said he has asked
doctors and hospitals in the At
lanta area to report any hepa
titis cases to the state’s Disease
Control Office.
Kemper transferred
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.
(UPI) — Edmund E. Kemper
111, on trial in Santa Cruz,
Calif., for killing eight women,
has been transferred to a state
medical prison because of
another suicide attempt.
Kemper was taken to the
state medical facility at Vaca
ville.