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Nixon will decide what
and when to give up
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon has met the
House Judiciary Committee’s
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demand for more impeachment
evidence by saying he will
decide what to give up and
when.
Nixon sent word to Capitol
Hill late Tuesday afternoon that
the committee —which had
insisted on knowing his inten
tions by then —would just have
to wait until late April to find
out what he plans to do.
His position was denounced
immediately by one committee
Democrat as “contemptuous”
and making it imperative the
panel subpoena the White
House to get the evidence
Nixon has thus far refused to
surrender.
Chairman Peter W. Rodino
Jr., D-N.H., refused immediate
comment. But he was expected
to decide today whether to call
the committee together and
make good on his threat last
week to “subpoena if we
must.”
Rodino’s committee has
asked Nixon to surrender 41
additional secret tapes and last
Thursday demanded a reply no
later than Tuesday.
“The President...has directed
me to advise you that a review
of the materials in question is
under way,” Nixon’s chief
lawyer, James D. St. Clair,
wrote committee counsel John
Doar.
“We expect that the review
can be completed by the end of
the Easter recess and that the
additional materials furnished
at that time will permit the
committee to complete its
inquiry promptly.”
Congress is scheduled to
recess for the Easter holiday
this Thursday and not return
until April 22.
Though Rodino’s committee
has specifically set forth what
it wants from the White House
and why, St. Clair’s letter gave
no indication whether Nixon
intends to surrender any or all
of the requested materials.
It appeared to imply, howe
ver, Nixon intends to decide for
himself what to give the
Dealer burned letter
with forged signature
LONDON (UPI) — A proper
ty dealer involved in a land
transaction that embarrassed
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
says he burned a letter bearing
Wilson’s forged signature be
cause of threats to his children.
A police spokesman said
Ronald Milhench, 32, told
detectives he destroyed the
letter several weeks ago after
receiving two threatening tele
phone calls.
The letter, on Wilson’s official
House of Commons stationery,
speaks cryptically about Mil
hench using his discretion in
the land deal, which occurred
at a time when Wilson and his
Labor party members were
sharply castigating the former
Conservative party government
over land speculation. The
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the zoo in the West German
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Questions to Stone
ruled irrelevant
By FREDERICK N. WINSHIP
NEW YORK (UPI) - De
fense attorneys in the Mitchell-
Stans conspiracy trial called
campaign contributor W. Cle
ment Stone to the witness stand
Tuesday in hopes of showing
big political donators did not
necessarily expect anything in
return but good government.
But questions posed to Stone,
the largest contributor to the
Nixon presidential campaigns
of 1968 and 1972, were ruled
irrelevant time after time by
U.S. District Judge Lee P.
Gagliardi in response to objec
tions by government prosecutor
Jonn R. Wing.
Stone was called during the
eighth week of the trial of
former Commerce Secretary
Maurice Stans and former U.S.
Attorney General John N.
Mitchell, both charged with
conspiring to block a Securities
and Exchange Commission
(SEC) investigation of financier
Robert L. Vesco in return for a
secret $200,000 cash campaign
contribution. Mitchell and Stans
headed Nixon’s re-election ef
fort.
Stone, a short, dapper, 71-
year old Chicago insurance
tycoon, was not allowed to
answer questions about his
fortune, his reasons for con
tributing to Nixon, or even the
size of his contribution—which
was more than $2 million in
1972 according to GOP cam
paign disclosures.
The only specific information
he was allowed to give was that
he made his contribution before
the April 7 cutoff date for
secret donations.
“I made my contribution by
check to various committees
prior to April 7,” Stone said. “I
committee.
“We should no longer tolerate
his contemptuous attitude to
ward those seeking the truth of
his conduct in office,” said
Rep. Jerome Waldie, D-Calif., a
member of the Rodino commit
tee. “We must now subpoena
all evidence we require.”
St. Clair’s letter also seemed
to couple the committee’s
demand for evidence with the
White House demand for the
panel to give him a role in their
inquiry —something the com
mittee has not yet defined.
transaction itself was legal.
Milhench received the letter
while negotiating the purchase
of 95 acres of industrial land
from Anthony Field, a former
Wilson aide and the brother of
the prime minister’s private
secretary, Marcia Williams.
Milhench contracted to pur
chase the site for $2.2 million
from Field, his sister and
others who had bought the land
for $420,000.
In an interview at his home,
Milhench confirmed that the
letter no longer exists.
“Yes, I did destroy that letter
several weeks ago,” he said. “I
burned it here at my home.
Scotland Yard knows that I did.
“The caller said he would kill
my children if I handed over
the letter to the police or
newspapers.”
A police spokesman said
Milhench knew the man who
made the threatening calls and
a search for him was under
way.
The spokesman said the loss
of the original letter would not
affect the investigation because
there were still several photoco
pies of it.
Handwriting experts who
studied the photocopies said
Wilson’s signature was forged.
got in early, volunteered.”
Gagliardi excused the jury
while defense attorney Robert
W. Barker protested the limita
tions on his questions. He told
the judge he needed Stone’s
testimony to establish that
people were willing to make
substantial contributions to the
campaign without expecting
anything but good government
in return.
“It was this atmosphere in
which Maurice H. Stans was
working. Its been made to
appear in this courtroom that
two hundred thousand dollars
could buy the country,” Barker
said.
According to prosecution tes
timony, the Vesco gift was
delivered to Stans three days
after the April 7 deadline for
anonymity, but was never
reported publicly by the Fi
nance Committee to Re-elect
the President.
Another defense attorney,
Walter Bonner, informed the
judge he intended to call the
campaign manager of Sen.
Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine,
as a defense witness to show
the Democrats followed the
same anonymity practices as
Republicans. But Gagliardi
excluded the witness on the
grounds of irrelevancy.
He also said he would rule as
irrelevant the testimony of such
millionaire Nixon supporters as
John Mulcahy of New York,
Richard Mellon Scaife of
Pittsburgh and Max Fisher of
Detroit, if defense persisted in
plans to put them on the
witness stand.
“They will testify they never
asked for or received any
reward for their contributions,”
Bonner said.
“What went through their
minds is not relevant to what
went through Stans’ mind as
far as criminal intent is
concerned,” Gagliardi replied.
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